Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on January 1, 1917. Mayor Tommy Church was acclaimed to his third consecutive term in office.

Toronto mayor

Church had first been elected mayor in 1915. No one chose to run against him and he won by acclamation.

Results

Tommy Church (incumbent) - acclaimed

Board of Control

Three incumbent members of 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...

 ran for reelection and were successful. Joseph Thompson

Joseph Thompson (Canadian politician)

Joseph Elijah Thompson was speaker of the Legislature of Ontario in 1924-1926 and served as Conservative MLA for St. David and Toronto Northeast from 1919 to 1929....

 retired to fight in the war, and his seat was filled by William Henry Shaw.

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) - 15,615

John O'Neill (incumbent) - 15,141

Thomas Foster (incumbent) - 13,939

William Henry Shaw - 11,967

James Simpson

James Simpson (politician)

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

 - 10,779

Sam McBride - 10,085

Frank S. Spence - 9,281

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) - 4,858

W. W. Hiltz (incumbent) - 4,201

William Fenwick - 3,778

A.H. Wagstaff (incumbent) - 2,301

Walter Brown - 1,961

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....

)

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) - 2,472

J.R. Beamish (incumbent) - 2,472

Charles A. Risk (incumbent) - 2,186

O'Leary - 1,484

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) - 2,924

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) - 1,991

Alfred Burgess - 1,900

Thomas Vance - 886

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...

(incumbent) - 2,218

John C. McMulkin - 2,180

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) - 1,840

John Cowan (incumbent) - 2,468

Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods)

R.H. Graham (incumbent) - 3,188

Garnet Archibald (incumbent) - 3,187

John Dunn - 3,072

W.R. Plewman (incumbent) - 2,848

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 (incumbent) - acclaimed

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) - acclaimed

D.C. MacGregor (incumbent) - acclaimed

Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)

Samuel Ryding (incumbent) - acclaimed

Frank Whetter (incumbent) - acclaimed

Results taken from the January 1, 1917 Toronto Daily Star and might not exactly match final tallies.