Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on January 1, 1927. Thomas Foster was running for his third consecutive term as mayor and won a narrow victory over Sam McBride. There were two referendums as part of the vote. Toronto voters voted in favour of adopting daylight savings time for the city. They also voted in favour of spending money to create an ornate gate at the entrance to the Exhibition Place

Exhibition Place

Exhibition Place is a mixed-use district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by the shoreline of Lake Ontario, just west of downtown. The 197–acre area includes expo, trade, and banquet centres, theatre and music buildings, monuments, parkland, sports facilities, and a number of civic, provincial,...

, which became the Prince's Gate.

Toronto mayor

Thomas Foster had first been elected to city council in 1891 and was running for his third consecutive term as mayor. He was opposed by Sam McBride and labour candidate 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...

. Foster was reelected by a narrow margin.

Results

Thomas Foster - 42,617

Sam McBride - 38,477

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...

 - 6,317

Board of Control

There was only 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...

. Sam McBride chose to run for mayor, and the open seat was won by former Alderman 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...

 who had tried, but failed, to capture a board seat the year before.

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) - 48,739

A.E. Hacker (incumbent) - 43,153

D.C. MacGregor (incumbent) - 34,813

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...

- 34,450

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...

 - 26,489

Clifford Blackburn - 22,959

Frank Whetter - 21,878

James Simpson

James Simpson (politician)

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

 - 10,946

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) - 6,500

Robert Siberry - 4,707

Robert Allen - 3,926

Robert Luxton (incumbent) - 3,822

Richard Honeyford - 3,747

Bertie Grant - 2,488

William Tyler - 590

Samuel Fieldhouse - 438

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) - 5,618

James Cameron - 5,513

John R. Beamish (incumbent) - 4,882

Charles A. Risk (incumbent) - 4,591

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) - 6,879

Andrew Carrick (incumbent) - 4,324

Percy Quinn

Percy Quinn

John Purcell Quinn was a Canadian athlete, businessman, sports promoter and politician in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was the owner and president of the Toronto Blueshirts, winners of the Stanley Cup in 1914. He was a member of the world champion Montreal Shamrocks lacrosse team in 1896...

- 3,565

Robert Yeomans - 3,016

Wallace Kennedy - 1,826

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)

Claude Pearce - 3,798

Ian Macdonnell (incumbent) - 3,468

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) - 3,091

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...

 (incumbent) - 2,615

Mason Saunders - 1,802

Jacob Romer - 441

Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods)

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) - 6,954

Wesley Benson (incumbent) - 4,767

Benjamin Miller (incumbent) - 4,416

Sol Eisen - 2,208

Robert Prince - 1,241

Robert Leslie - 2,711

Joseph Bell - 1,763

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...

)

Brook Sykes - 9,482

John Laxton (incumbent) - 7,362

John Boland (incumbent) - 7,182

Richard Tuthill - 4,280

Gordon Gibb - 3,327

Alexander Greenhill - 1,358

Albert Robinson - 1,202

Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)

Alexander Chisholm - 3,993

William J. Wadsworth

William J. Wadsworth

William J. Wadsworth was a long serving municipal politician in Toronto, Canada.He was born in Flesherton, Ontario and migrated to Toronto his family moved to the West Toronto Junction while he was still a youth...

- 3,756

Samuel Ryding (incumbent) - 3,742

William Davidson (incumbent) - 3,492

Albert Smith - 546

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...

)

Walter Howell (incumbent) - 4,988

Robert Dibble (incumbent) - 4,892

Robert Baker (incumbent) - 4,340

Isaac Pimblett - 3,874

Albert Burnese - 3,348

William Robertston - 2,576

Joseph Turner - 1,233

David Mackay - 572

Dave McCorie - 394

Albert Jacks - 315

Results taken from the January 1, 1927 Toronto Daily Star and might not exactly match final tallies.