Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on January 1, 1919. Mayor Tommy Church was elected to his fifth consecutive term in office. This election marked the creation of Ward 8, covering the recently annexed areas of East Toronto

East Toronto

East Toronto, Ontario was an incorporated community in what is today a part of the city of Toronto, Canada. It covered much of what is today the Upper Beaches neighbourhood, stretching up to Danforth Avenue in the north. The central street in the community was Main Street, running south from...

. The representation of Ward 7 was also increased to have three alderman like every other ward.

Toronto mayor

Church had first been elected mayor in 1915 and had been reelected every year since. He was opposed by several credible opponents, most notably by Controller John O'Neill who was trying to become the first Roman Catholic to be elected mayor of Toronto. Two other prominent candidates also ran, but failed to win much support. MP and future mayor Thomas Foster and former controller William Henry Shaw.

Results

Tommy Church (incumbent) - 26,020

John O'Neill - 16,230

William Henry Shaw - 3,772

Thomas Foster - 2,180

Board of Control

O'Neill's decision to run for mayor opened one vacancy 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...

. It was filled by former Controller 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....

 who had run unsuccessfully for mayor the year previous.

Results

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) - 19,963

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....

- 19,094

Sam McBride (incumbent) - 18,476

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) - 19,270

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...

 - 16,397

Garnet Archibald - 15,603

Fred McBrien - 13,570

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....

)

Frank Marsden Johnson (incumbent) - 3,559

Richard Honeyford (incumbent) - 3,555

W. W. Hiltz (incumbent) - 3,533

William Feawick - 2,478

Arthur J. Stubbings - 1,623

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....

)

J.R. Beamish (incumbent) - 2,997

John Winnett - 2,582

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) - 2,401

Charles A. Risk (incumbent) - 2,060

Joseph Kent - 866

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)

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) - 3,113

F.W. Johnston (incumbent) - 1,886

Charles W. Mugridge - 1,687

William Harper - 1,463

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) - 3,644

John Cowan (incumbent) - 2,448

John C. McMulkin (incumbent) - 3,349

Harry Winberg - 1,862

William Brant - 614

Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods)

R.H. Graham (incumbent) - 3,908

W.R. Plewman (incumbent) - 3,185

Clifford Blackburn (incumbent) - 2,853

Angus Beaton - 2,371

James Phinnemore - 1,249

James Coughlin - 1,159

Thomas Ballentyne - 919

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...

)

D.C. MacGregor - 5,113

George Birdsall (incumbent) - 4,225

Brook Sykes (incumbent) - 4,098

James M.H. Ballantyne - 2,710

Michael Manley - 1,624

Alex Williamson - 1,360

Alvin L. Gadsby - 869

Richard Holmes - 916

Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)

Samuel Ryding (incumbent) - 1,435

William Maher - 1,359

Frank Whetter - 1,352

Alexander Chisholm - 1,146

Robert Agnew - 1,095

Ward 8 (East Toronto

East Toronto

East Toronto, Ontario was an incorporated community in what is today a part of the city of Toronto, Canada. It covered much of what is today the Upper Beaches neighbourhood, stretching up to Danforth Avenue in the north. The central street in the community was Main Street, running south from...

)

William Williamson - 1,747

William M. Miskelly - 1,548

Frederick Baker - 1,483

Walter Brown - 1,202

John Lennox - 766

Alfred Dunnett - 567

William Ford - 558

Results taken from the January 1, 1920 Toronto Daily Star and might not exactly match final tallies.