Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on January 1, 1926. Thomas Foster was reelected mayor.

Toronto mayor

Thomas Foster had first been elected to city council in 1891 and was running for his second consecutive term as mayor. He was opposed 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....

, but won easy reelection. The central issue was whether the suburban radial lines, such as the Toronto and York Radial Railway

Toronto and York Radial Railway

The Toronto and York Radial Railway operated radial transit services outside of Toronto. Service began in 1904 with the merger of several operators:* Metropolitan Street Railway...

, should be taken away from Toronto Hydro

Toronto Hydro

The Toronto Hydro-Electric System is the local distributor of electric power in the City of Toronto. In 2005 the utility served a peak load of over 5,000 MW and had nearly 600,000 residential and 70,000 commercial and industrial customers, and had around 1,600 employees. In 2005 the corporation...

 and merged into the Toronto Transportation Commission

Toronto Transportation Commission

Before 1954, the Toronto Transit Commission was called the Toronto Transportation Commission.-History:Toronto's first public transportation company was the Williams Omnibus Bus Line and owned by undertaker Burt Williams. The franchise carried passengers in horse-drawn stagecoaches along Yonge...

. While Cameron, the main advocate of the position, lost the election the policy was enacted in 1927.

Results

Thomas Foster - 47,771

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....

 - 38,045

Samuel Fieldhouse - 916

Board of Control

There was one change in the membership 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...

. Alderman Sam McBride made his first run for the Board and finished second. This pushed 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...

 into fifth and off the board.

Results

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) - 37,608

Sam McBride - 36,211

A.E. Hacker (incumbent) - 31,427

D.C. MacGregor (incumbent) - 30,975

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...

 - 30,320

William C. McBrien

William C. McBrien

William C. McBrien was a Canadian business owner and civic administrator. He was a long-serving chairman of the Toronto Transportation Commission....

 - 29,923

Bert Wemp

Bert Wemp

Bert Sterling Wemp was a Canadian journalist and mayor of Toronto.Born in Tweed, Ontario, he was raised in Cabbagetown and attended Dufferin School and Jarvis Collegiate Institute. In 1905, he joined the Toronto Telegram working as a suburban editor, editor, city editor, and head of the court bureau...

 - 28,024

Frank Whetter - 21,722

W.E. Hamilton - 2,590

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....

)

W.A. Summerville (incumbent) - 6,359

George J. Smith (incumbent) - 6,252

Robert Luxton (incumbent) - 5,158

Richard Honeyford - 4,179

Robert Allen - 2,548

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....

)

John Winnett (incumbent) - 5,857

Charles A. Risk (incumbent) - 5,606

John R. Beamish - 5,501

Charles Reed - 3,753

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)

Harry W. Hunt (incumbent) - 5,463

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) - 4,785

Andrew Carrick - 4,262

William Beaton - 3,716

Wallace Kennedy - 1,916

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)

Ian Macdonnell  - 4,588

Nathan Phillips

Nathan Phillips (politician)

Nathan Phillips, KC was a Canadian politician and popular Mayor of Toronto, Ontario.-Early life:Born in Brockville, Ontario, the son of Jacob Phillips and Mary Rosenbloom, he was educated in public and high schools in Cornwall. In 1908, he articled with the Cornwall lawyer, Robert Smith, who later...

 (incumbent) - 4,292

Samuel Factor

Samuel Factor

Samuel Factor was a Polish-American chess master.-Biography:During World War I, Faktor was one of the strongest chess players in Łódź . In 1916, he lost a match to Hirszbajn . In 1917, he took 3rd, behind Gersz Salwe, and Teodor Regedziński. In 1917/18, he took 2nd, behind Regedziński...

 - 2,570

William Hevey - 2,577

John Young - 811

Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods)

Clifford Blackburn (incumbent) - 6,539

William James Stewart

William James Stewart

William James Stewart was a Canadian politician. Stewart also owned and operated the Bates and Dodds Funeral Home on Queen Street West in Toronto.- Mayor of Toronto :...

 (incumbent) - 6,125

Benjamin Miller (incumbent) - 5,191

Phinnemore - 3,407

John Macdonald - 1,596

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...

)

Samuel Wright (incumbent) - 8,951

John Laxton (incumbent) - 6,791

John Boland - 6,312

William Willard - 5,121

William Maltby - 4,712

Richard Tuthill - 3,028

James Black - 829

James Muldowney - 667

Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)

W.A. Baird (incumbent) - 4,451

Samuel Ryding (incumbent) - 4,283

William C. Davidson - 3,989

Alexander Chisholm - 3,219

Hall - 398

Barnetson - 252

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...

)

Robert Baker (incumbent) - 6,900

Walter Howell - 5,587

Robert Dibble (incumbent) - 5,587

William Robertston (incumbent) - 4,994

Joseph Turner - 2,779

Isaac Pimblett - 2,195

Albert Burnese - 3,348

Results taken from the January 2, 1926 Toronto Daily Star and might not exactly match final tallies.