Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on January 1, 1916. Mayor Tommy Church was elected to his second term in office.

Toronto mayor

Church had first been elected mayor the year previous. In the words of the Toronto Daily Star the mayoral contest "was something of a joke" as Church was only opposed by Harry Winberg, who had never before held elected office. Church ignored his opponent during the campaign, and was easily returned.

Results

Tommy Church (incumbent) - 28,541

Harry Winberg - 9,880

Board of Control

There was one change to 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...

. 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....

 won a seat while Frank S. Spence was defeated.

Joseph Elijah Thompson (incumbent) -18,209

John O'Neill (incumbent) - 17,572

Thomas Foster (incumbent) - 16,085

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....

- 15,391

James Simpson

James Simpson (politician)

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

 - 13,080

Frank S. Spence (incumbent) - 12,652

John Dunn - 11,009

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) - 4,283

A.H. Wagstaff - 4,011

W. W. Hiltz (incumbent) - 3,657

Yeomans - 2,590

Walter Brown - 913

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....

)

Charles A. Risk (incumbent) - 2,550

J.R. Beamish - 2,499

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...

(incumbent) - 2,093

Charles Beavis - 1,946

Thomas Barber - 729

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) - 3,397

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...

(incumbent) - 2,154

Sam McBride (incumbent) - 1,971

Thomas Vance - 1,666

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)

Arthur Russell Nesbitt

Arthur Russell Nesbitt

Arthur Russell Nesbitt was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He was elected to Toronto City Council for Ward 4 beginning in 1920, was subsequently elected to the Toronto Board of Control and then was elected provincially representing Toronto Northwest and then Bracondale in the Legislative...

- 2,652

John Cowan (incumbent) - 2,374

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) - 2,177

A.W. Miles - 1,954

Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods)

Garnet Archibald - 2,808

R.H. Graham - 2,789

W.R. Plewman - 2,006

John Warren (incumbent) - 1,860

Joseph May - 1,571

John Wesley Meredith (incumbent) - 1,439

George Hagar - 1,373

James Thompson - 1,290

Alfred Moore - 388

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...

)

Fred McBrien - 4,512

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...

(incumbent) - 4,414

D.C. MacGregor - 4,006

George Birdsall - 3,890

Thomas Roden (incumbent) - 2,319

Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)

Samuel Ryding (incumbent) - 1,420

Frank Whetter - 1,252

William Henry Weir (incumbent)- 1,106

Results taken from the January 1, 1916 Toronto Daily Star and might not exactly match final tallies.