Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on January 1, 1915. Tommy Church was elected mayor defeating Jesse O. McCarthy

Toronto mayor

Incumbent mayor H.C. Hocken

Horatio Clarence Hocken

Horatio Clarence Hocken was a Canadian politician, Mayor of Toronto, social reformer and a founder of what became the Toronto Star....

 chose not to run for reelection. Two prominent members of the Board of Control ran to replace him: Tommy Church and Jesse O. McCarthy, with Church the victor. As with most races of the period, it was also a contest between the two newspapers with the Toronto Daily Star supporting McCarthy and the Toronto Telegram supporting Church.

Results

Tommy Church (incumbent) - 26,041

Jesse O. McCarthy - 19,573

Board of Control

The decision of both Church and McCarthy to run for mayor opened two vacancies on the Board of Control

Toronto Board of Control

Toronto Board of Control was a part of the municipal government of Toronto, Canada from 1904 until its abolition in 1969 and served as the executive committee of Toronto City Council. It consisted of four councillors elected city wide and was presided over by the mayor. Each voter could vote for up...

. A third opening was created by the defeat of labour leader James Simpson

James Simpson (politician)

James "Jimmy" Simpson was a Canadian trade unionist, printer, journalist and left wing politician in Toronto, Ontario...

, who had been elected to the Board the year before. The spots were filled by Thomas Foster, Frank S. Spence, and Joseph Elijah Thompson.

John O'Neill (incumbent) - 20,751

Thomas Foster - 18,608

Frank S. Spence - 17,747

Joseph Elijah Thompson - 16,505

James Simpson

James Simpson (politician)

James "Jimmy" Simpson was a Canadian trade unionist, printer, journalist and left wing politician in Toronto, Ontario...

 (incumbent) - 16,349

Fred McBrien - 15,447

John Wanless - 13,044

City council

Ward 1 (Riverdale

Riverdale, Toronto

Riverdale is a large neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded by the Don River Valley to the west, Danforth Avenue and Greektown to the north, Jones Avenue, the CN/GO tracks, and Leslieville to the east, and Lake Shore Boulevard to the south....

)

William D. Robbins

William D. Robbins

William Dullam Robbins was the 45th Mayor of Toronto from 1936 to 1937. He was appointed mayor after the death of incumbent Sam McBride and remained in office until defeated by Ralph Day in the 1937 elections. Robbins was considered a representative of labour in Toronto city politics, but was also...

(incumbent) - 3,987

Albert Walton (incumbent) - 3,353

W. W. Hiltz (incumbent) - 2,934

Robert Yeomans - 2,910

A.H. Wagstaff - 2,754

William Orr - 1,700

George Smith - 1,148

George Daniels - 765

George Wellings - 325

Ward 2 (Cabbagetown

Cabbagetown, Toronto

Cabbagetown is a neighbourhood located on the east side of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It comprises "the largest continuous area of preserved Victorian housing in all of North America", according to the Cabbagetown Preservation Association....

 and Rosedale

Rosedale, Toronto

Rosedale is an affluent neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which was formerly the estate of William Botsford Jarvis, and so named by his wife, granddaughter of William Dummer Powell, for the wild roses that grew there in abundance....

)

Samuel Wickett (incumbent) - 3,028

Charles A. Risk (incumbent) - 2,586

Herbert Henry Ball

Herbert Henry Ball

Herbert Henry Ball was a Canadian politician and journalist.On October 24, 1885, he married Mary Ann Martin in Bristol, Somerset, England. In 1886, Ball and his wife emigrated to Canada, settling north of Toronto in an area then known as Davisville...

- 2,134

Charles Beavis - 2,009

John Cooper - 1,789

Ward 3 (Central Business District

Downtown Toronto

Downtown Toronto is the central business district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is approximately bounded by Bloor Street to the north, Lake Ontario to the south, the Don River to the east, and Bathurst Street to the west...

 and The Ward)

Charles A. Maguire

Charles A. Maguire

Charles Alfred Maguire was mayor of Toronto from 1922-1923.Charles Alfred Maguire was born in Toronto, the son of James Maguire and Elizabeth Brown....

(incumbent) - 4,356

Sam McBride (incumbent) - 3,993

J. George Ramsden

J. George Ramsden

Joseph George Ramsden was a long active municipal politician in Toronto, Canada. He was born in Thornhill and first became active in politics working for Alexander Mackenzie in a York East by-election. He served for fifteen years as Chief Inspector for the Department of Indian Affairs, which saw...

- 2,107

John Skelton - 1,783

Albert Hassard - 884

Rudolph Paulich - 150

Ward 4 (Kensington Market

Kensington Market

Kensington Market is a distinctive multicultural neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Market is an older neighbourhood and one of the city's most well-known. In November 2006, it was designated a National Historic Site of Canada. Robert Fulford wrote in 1999 that "Kensington...

 and Garment District)

R.H. Cameron

R.H. Cameron

Robert Henderson Cameron was a Toronto manufacturer and politician. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1867 and came to Canada as a child with his family in the early 1870s....

(incumbent) - 3,286

Louis Singer

Louis Singer

Louis M. Singer, K.C., was a Toronto lawyer and the first Jewish candidate to win election to Toronto City Council.Singer was born in Austria in 1885 and immigrated to Canada with his family when he was three years old. He attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute in Toronto and had to pay for his own...

(incumbent) - 2,865

John Cowan - 2,339

Robert McLeod - 1,673

Henry Dworkin - 1,281

Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods)

John Dunn (incumbent) - 6,298

John Warren - 3,578

John Wesley Meredith (incumbent) - 3,498

Joseph May - 3,138

Alfred Moore - 964

Ward 6 (Davenport and Parkdale

Parkdale, Toronto

Parkdale is a neighbourhood and former village in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, west of downtown. The neighbourhood is bounded on the west by Roncesvalles Avenue, on the north by Queen Street. It is bounded on the east by Dufferin Street from Queen Street south, and on the south by Lake Ontario...

)

David Spence

David Spence (Canadian politician)

David Spence was a Canadian politician.Spence was born in County Armagh, Ireland and was educated at a state school before immigrating to North America in 1896. After spending a year in Pittsburgh he moved to Toronto where he established a wholesale fruit and commission business...

(incumbent) - 5,727

Thomas Roden - 2,319

Joseph Gibbons

Joseph Gibbons (Toronto)

Joseph Gibbons was a municipal politician in Toronto, Canada. He was born on a farm outside of Waterloo, Ontario and moved to Toronto in the 1890s. There he found worked as a streetcar driver. He first piloted the horse drawn streetcars up Yonge Street and then served for fifteen years as a driver...

- 3,724

George Birdsall - 2,524

D.C. MacGregor - 2,198

Albert Chamberlain - 1,491

Arthur Atkinson - 819

John Brown - 538

Kenneth McKenzie - 544

Richard Holmes - 417

George Pettit - 304

Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)

Samuel Ryding (incumbent) - 1,218

William Henry Weir - 1,141

Frank Whetter (incumbent) - 1,026

Alexander Chisholm - 400

Maxwell Armstrong - 292

Results taken from the January 2, 1915 Toronto Daily Star and might not exactly match final tallies.