Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on January 1, 1943. Incumbent Frederick J. Conboy

Frederick J. Conboy

Frederick Joseph Conboy was a Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Toronto, Ontario from 1941 to 1944....

 was acclaimed as mayor. There was a very low voter turnout, but the election was a victory for the left as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction...

 (CCF) and Communist Party

Communist Party of Canada

The Communist Party of Canada is a communist political party in Canada. Although is it currently a minor or small political party without representation in the Federal Parliament or in provincial legislatures, historically the Party has elected representatives in Federal Parliament, Ontario...

 each won two seats.

Toronto mayor

For the second time in a row no one chose to run against incumbent Frederick J. Conboy and he was acclaimed as mayor.

Results

Frederick J. Conboy

Frederick J. Conboy

Frederick Joseph Conboy was a Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Toronto, Ontario from 1941 to 1944....

- acclaimed

Board of Control

All incumbents were re-elected 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...

.

Results

Lewis Duncan

Lewis Duncan

James Lewis Duncan was a Canadian politician and lawyer.Duncan was the son of a physician and grandson of a Presbyterian minister. He studied at the University of Toronto and in Paris and won a silver medal as a student at Osgoode Hall Law School.He fought in World War I at the Somme, Vimy Ridge...

(incumbent) - 40,060

Robert Hood Saunders

Robert Hood Saunders

Robert Hood Saunders, Q.C., CBE was mayor of Toronto from 1945 to 1948, President of the Canadian National Exhibition, chairman of the Ontario Hydro ....

(incumbent) - 33,081

Fred Hamilton (incumbent) - 28,919

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) - 27,031

C.E. Reynolds - 26,194

Minerva Reid - 18,320

J.C. Irwin - 16,860

G.P. Granell - 5,010

Harry Bradley - 3,590

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....

)

Leslie Saunders (incumbent) - 3,743

Gordon Millen

Gordon Millen

Gordon Millen was a politician from Toronto, Canada. He served several years on city council before being elected as a Member of Provincial Parliament....

(incumbent) - 3,715

R.E. Wright - 2,333

W.S.B. Armstrong - 1,291

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....

)

Louis Shannon

Louis Shannon

J. Louis Shannon was a municipal politician in Toronto, Canada who served for many years on Toronto City Council and the Toronto Board of Control....

(incumbent) - 3,452

William Dennison - 2,907

Henry Glendinning (incumbent) - 2,783

Ward 3 (West Downtown

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 Summerhill

Summerhill, Toronto

The Summerhill neighbourhood in central Toronto was named after 'Summer Hill' house, built in 1842 by Canadian transportation baron Charles Thompson.Much of the area was once part of the Thompson estate but was subdivided by his heirs in the 1880s....

)

John Frank (incumbent) - 1,648

John S. Simmons (incumbent) - 1,396

W.R. Shaw - 1,078

Marjorie Garrow - 635

Harold Fishleigh - 462

Ward 4 (The Annex

The Annex

The Annex is a neighbourhood in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The traditional boundaries of the neighbourhood are north to Dupont Street, south to Bloor Street, west to Bathurst Street and east to Avenue Road...

, 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)

J. B. Salsberg

J. B. Salsberg

Joseph Baruch Salsberg was a Canadian politician, long time Communist and activist in the Jewish community.-Early life:...

- 4,783

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) - 2,472

David Balfour (incumbent) - 2,432

Herbert Orliffe

Herbert Orliffe

Herbert Orliffe was a municipal politician in Toronto, Canada. He immigrated with his family form Newcastle, England at age 8 and settled in Toronto. His father operated a grocery store on Harbord Street...

 - 2,093

William Condle - 290

Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods

Stewart Smith

Stewart Smith (politician)

Stewart Smith was a long-time leading member of the Communist Party of Canada. He also served on Toronto City Council for a period in the 1930s and 1940s....

- 5,186

Ernest Bogart (incumbent) - 4,653

C.M. Carrie (incumbent) - 3,423

Maxwell Armstrong - 1,422

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...

)

William V. Muir (incumbent) - 4,413

Jack Bennett - 3,750

Kenneth McKellar - 3,007

Robert Stuart - 2,439

F.G. McBrien - 2,098

George Harris - 1,514

H.E. Lister - 746

Nina Dean - 624

H.B. Branscombe - 539

R.M. Wilson - 398

Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)

Charles Rowntree (incumbent) - 3,749

E.C. Roelofson - 2,242

William C. Davidson (incumbent) - 2,169

Eva Sanderson - 1,757

Ward 8 (The Beaches

The Beaches

The Beaches is a neighbourhood and popular tourist destination located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the east side of the "Old" City of Toronto. The original boundaries of the neighbourhood are from Fallingbrook Avenue on the east to Kingston Road on the north, to Woodbine Avenue...

)

Hiram E. McCallum

Hiram E. McCallum

Hiram Emerson McCallum was a mayor of Toronto, Ontario from 1948-1951.Born in East Caledon, Ontario, his first job was at The Mail and Empire newspaper as a clerk in the advertising department. From there, he started his own printing plant in 1931...

(incumbent) - 5,195

Walter Howell (incumbent) - 4,725

E.S. McGuinness - 2,606

H.L. McKinstry - 2,335

Ward 9 (North Toronto

North Toronto

North Toronto was a town located in the northern part of the Old Toronto district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It occupies a geographically central location within the current boundaries of the city of Toronto. It is a relatively narrow strip, centred around Yonge Street; it extends from the CP...

)

John Innes

John Innes (politician)

John Innes was a municipal politician in Toronto, Canada. He was born in Scotland and immigrated to Canada in around 1900 when he was in his twenties. A carpenter by trade he built a home in on Merton Street in North Toronto. He then became a developer, building several other homes around the area...

(incumbent) - 6,479

Donald Fleming (incumbent) - 6,301

Christine McCarty - 3,123

Results taken from the January 2, 1943 Globe and Mail and might not exactly match final tallies.