Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on January 1, 1928. Sam McBride was elected mayor, defeating incumbent Thomas Foster by a wide margin.

Toronto mayor

Thomas Foster had first been elected to city council in 1891 and was running for his fourth consecutive term as mayor. He was opposed by Sam McBride who had tried, but failed, to be elected mayor on three previous occasions.

Results

Sam McBride - 50,324

Thomas Foster - 34,785

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...

. 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...

  regained the seat he had lost two years earlier to D.C. MacGregor.

Results

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...

(incumbent) - 47,153

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) - 45,655

A.E. Hacker (incumbent) - 33,433

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...

- 29,359

D.C. MacGregor (incumbent) - 28,858

Brook Sykes - 24,427

Miller - 18,122

James Simpson

James Simpson (politician)

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

 - 12,954

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....

)

Robert Siberry (incumbent) - 6,661

W.A. Summerville (incumbent) - 6,277

Robert Luxton - 5,202

Robert Allen (incumbent) - 5,135

George Smith - 2,728

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 R. Beamish (incumbent) - 5,303

John Winnett (incumbent) - 5,759

James Cameron (incumbent) - 5,629

Arthur Dyas - 3,738

Roy Tanner - 1,086

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) - acclaimed

Andrew Carrick (incumbent) - acclaimed

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...

(incumbent) - acclaimed

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)

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) - 5,434

Claude Pearce (incumbent) - 4,057

Joseph Gordon - 3,765

Ian Macdonnell (incumbent) - 3,197

Jacob Romer - 443

Max Shur - 293

Reuben Rodness - 262

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) - 4,913

Wesley Benson (incumbent) - 4,740

Clifford Blackburn - 4,135

Sol Eisen - 2,856

Robert Leslie - 2,711

David Goldstick - 1,917

Mary McNab - 899

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...

)

Joseph Wright - 9,117

John Laxton (incumbent) - 5,855

John Boland (incumbent) - 5,651

Gordon Gibb - 3,647

Richard Tuthill - 2,565

E.L. Wright - 2,095

Albert Robinson - 1,688

Tim Buck

Tim Buck

Timothy "Tim" Buck was a long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada...

 - 961

Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)

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...

(incumbent) - 4,165

Frank Whetter - 3,943

Samuel Ryding (incumbent) - 3,589

Alexander Chisholm (incumbent) - 3,927

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 Dibble (incumbent) - 6,848

Walter Howell (incumbent) - 6,337

Robert Baker (incumbent) - 5,446

Isaac Pimblett - 4,914

William Robertston - 4,028

Results taken from the January 2, 1928 Toronto Daily Star and might not exactly match final tallies.