Toronto municipal election, 1931
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Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on January 1, 1931. 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 :...

 was elected mayor after winning a close contest again former mayor Sam McBride.

Toronto mayor

Incumbent mayor 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...

 needed major abdominal surgery did could not run. Running to replace him was former mayor McBride, who had been defeated by Wemp in the 1930 campaign. He was opposed by Alderman Stewart, who won the vote by a slim margin.

Results
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 :...

- 57,500
Sam McBride - 57,110

Board of Control

Two incumbents were defeated 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...

: Claude Pearce and W.A. Summerville. Former controller Albert Hacker, who had been defeated the previous year regained a seat. The other new seat was won by Alderman 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...

.

Results
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...

- 51,043
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) - 50,801
James Simpson
James Simpson (politician)
James "Jimmy" Simpson was a Canadian trade unionist, printer, journalist and left wing politician in Toronto, Ontario...

(incumbent) - 48,105
Albert Hacker - 43,763
John Boland - 41,779
Claude Pearce (incumbent) - 40,431
W.A. Summerville (incumbent) - 19,087
Foster - 13,491
Cotton - 9,014
King - 3,154
Tim Buck
Tim Buck
Timothy "Tim" Buck was a long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada...

 - 3,010

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) - 7,458
Ralph Day
Ralph Day
Ralph C. Day was Mayor of Toronto, Ontario from 1938 to 1940. He was also an accomplished funeral director, owning his own funeral home. He also served as chairman of the Toronto Transit Commission in the 1960s and 1970s....

- 4,501
Frank M. Johnston - 4,361
Lorne Trull (incumbent) - 4,323
Robert Allen (incumbent) - 4,192
Robert Luxton - 3,398
William Taylor - 1,588
Alexander MacDonald - 707
John Lang - 610
Harry Perkins - 468


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) - 5,359
James Cameron (incumbent) - 5,007
John Winnett (incumbent) - 4,247
Robert Yeomans - 3,835
Hugh Sutherland - 3,774
Raymond Hughes - 2,584
Joseph Miller - 2,480
Cecil Dunsford - 1,176
John Carter - 770
Charles Parks - 683
Frank Gallagher - 640
William Sanders - 600


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...

)
Harry W. Hunt (incumbent) - 6,709
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...

- 4,554
H.L. Rogers - 4,211
Andrew Carrick (incumbent) - 3,003
Reginald Shaw - 2,026
Frank Burton - 1,610
Algernon Brocklesby - 1,313
James Merrick - 729
Herry Winberg - 430


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)
Baird Ryckman - 4,311
J.J. Glass - 3,429
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) - 3,389
Charles Ward (incumbent) - 2,372
Joseph Gordon - 2,205
Abraham Singer - 2,185
Charles Lewis - 702
Max Shur - 227


Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods)
Robert Leslie (incumbent) - 5,921
Thomas Holdswoth - 5,841
Fred Hamilton (incumbent) - 5,737
Wesley Benson - 5,550
Louis Fine - 4,450
S.H. Menzies - 2,291
Harry Tait - 1,665
Thomas Black - 1,287
John McIntyre - 610
John Boychuk - 363


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 (incumbent) - 8,315
Albert Chamberlain - 8,171
William Duckworth
William Duckworth (politician)
William Duckworth was an Ontario merchant and political figure. He represented Dovercourt in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1934 to 1948 as a Conservative and then Progressive Conservative member....

- 6,649
John Laxton - 5,911
Joseph Wright (incumbent) - 5,911
Brook Sykes - 3,613
Richard Tuthill - 3,203
James Gill - 1,084
Daniel Reed - 793


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) - 4,615
Frank Whetter - 4,596
Alexander Chisholm (incumbent) - 3,468
Samuel Ryding - 2,687
Christopher Woodburn - 2,380
Allan Rice - 2,285
John Whetton - 1,471


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...

)
Goldwin Elgie - 9,548
Ernest Bray (incumbent) - 6,895
Robert Baker- 6,188
Walter Howell (incumbent) - 6,057
Robert Dibble - 5,638
David Mackay - 3,343
William Robertston - 1,119
Roy Tanner - 388


Results taken from the January 2, 1931 Toronto Star and might not exactly match final tallies.
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