Toronto municipal election, 1944
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Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on January 1, 1944. 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....

 defeated Controller 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...

. The election was a notable defeat for 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, a social democratic party) as it lost all representation on city council.

Toronto mayor

Conboy had served as mayor since 1940 and was seeking his fourth term of office. He was opposed by CCFer Lewis Duncan who had also run and lost in 1939 and 1940.

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....

- 78,383
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...

 - 58,712

Board of Control

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...

 had one open seat due to Duncan's run for mayor. Alderman William Dennison attempted to hold the seat for the CCF, but finished in distant seventh. Three other former aldermen ran for the seat 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...

, David Balfour, and communist 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....

 with Balfour winning the seat.

Results
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) - 73,383
Fred Hamilton (incumbent) - 52,694
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) - 52,485
David Balfour - 50,599
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...

 - 50,337
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....

 - 41,277
William Dennison - 30,026
William Muir - 19,061
Harry Bradley - 7,743

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) - 7,999
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) - 7,758
John McGuigan - 3,444
Stanley Ryerson - 1,959
Irene Humble - 1,475


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) - 5,798
George A. Wilson - 4,432
Henry Glendinning - 2,538
May Birchard
May Birchard
May Birchard was a municipal politician and poverty activist in Toronto, Canada. Born in Toronto she married F.J. Birchard, an agricultural scientist who was an expert on grain. During the First World War the family moved to Winnipeg...

 - 2,179
Harold Toye - 1,819
Gordon W. Armstrong - 819


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 S. Simmons (incumbent) - 3,132
Harold Fishleigh - 2,915
John Frank (incumbent) - 1,917
J.R. Huffman - 909
William Smith - 488
Marjorie Garrow - 439
Charles Lewis - 408
Francis Burns - 321


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)
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) - 4,951
Norman Freed - 4,211
H.A. Ross - 3,829
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...

 - 2,797
Charles Hamilton - 1,569


Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods
Ernest Bogart (incumbent) - 7,083
Charles Sims - 7,016
Arthur Frost - 5,337
Harold Menzies - 3,473
Maxwell Armstrong - 2,460


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...

)
Kenneth McKellar - 8,903
Harold Timmins
Harold Timmins
Harold Aberdeen Watson Timmins was a Canadian politician and jurist.Timmins was born in Alliston, Ontario, the son of James S. Timmins and Charlotte Amelia Watson, and raised in the Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale where he attended Parkdale Collegiate Institute before studying at the University...

- 8,622
Jack Bennett (incumbent) - 6,707
George Granell - 3,749
Dewar Ferguson - 3,015
Patrick O'Donovan - 2,567
Nina Dean - 2,238
Patrick McKeown - 627
Charles Dymond - 469


Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)
Charles Rowntree (incumbent) - 7,393
E.C. Roelofson (incumbent) - 5,542
Eva Sanderson - 2,756
Frank Cormack - 2,118


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...

)
Walter Howell (incumbent) - 9,431
William Collings - 6,542
Murray Cotterill
Murray Cotterill
Murray Cotterill was a Canadian trade union activist and organizer for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ....

 - 5,833
E.S. McGuinness - 5,377
H.L. McKinstry - 3,990
J.E. McMillan - 2,102


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) - 14,252
Donald Fleming (incumbent) - 13,948
R.M. McLean - 3,499
Christien McCarty - 2,174


Results taken from the January 3, 1944 Globe and Mail and might not exactly match final tallies.
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