Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on December 1, 1952. Incumbent mayor Allan Lamport easily won against former alderman 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...

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There were two referendum questions on the ballot. One called for municipal terms in the city to be extended from one year to two. This measure was rejected, but was later passed in the 1955 election

Toronto municipal election, 1955

Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on December 5, 1955. Incumbent mayor Nathan Phillips, elected a year earlier, was easily reelected....

. The second measure was to approve funds for the construction of the Regent Park

Regent Park

Regent Park is a neighbourhood located in Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Regent Park is Canada's oldest and largest social housing project; built in the late 1940s. Formerly the centre of the Cabbagetown neighbourhood, it is bounded by Gerrard Street East to the north, River Street to the east,...

 housing project, which was passed by a slim margin.

Toronto mayor

Lamport and Phillips had contested the mayoralty a year earlier in 1951. Phillips' vote increased substantially in the rematch, but Lamport was still easily reelected.

Results:

Allan Lamport - 81,448

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...

 - 41,923

Board of Control

All four incumbents were reelected to 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...

 despite several high profile candidates running as well. Two sitting aldermen, Joseph Cornish

Joseph Cornish

F. Joseph Cornish, Q.C. was a lawyer, judge and Toronto politician who served as alderman for Ward 2 and as a member of the Toronto Board of Control as well as a Metro Toronto Councillor....

 and John McMechan, ran for spots, but finished fifth and sixth. In seventh was former Controller 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....

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Results

Leslie Saunders (incumbent) - 71,597

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) - 61,154

David Balfour (incumbent) - 58,898

Ford Brand (incumbent) - 58,648

Joseph Cornish

Joseph Cornish

F. Joseph Cornish, Q.C. was a lawyer, judge and Toronto politician who served as alderman for Ward 2 and as a member of the Toronto Board of Control as well as a Metro Toronto Councillor....

  - 41,086

John McMechan - 30,219

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....

 - 19,061

Harry Bradley - 17,480

Frederick Vacher - 7,065

Mahoney - 7,046

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....

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William Allen

William Allen (Canadian politician)

William Randall Allen, QC was a Toronto politician who served as the Chairman of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto from 1962 to 1969 and is the namesake of the W.R. Allen Expressway . Metropolitan Toronto was created by the Province of Ontario in 1952 and comprised Toronto, North York,...

(incumbent) - 9,886

Ken Waters - 8,583

Spence - 2,368

Morrison - 1,961

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....

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William Dennison - 4,090

Edgar Roxborough - 3,657

C.M. Edwards - 2,436

Nash - 1,086

Wilson - 1,085

Ross - 843

Taylor - 773

Burke - 611

Hill - 490

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....

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John McVicar (incumbent) - 4,826

Howard Phillips (incumbent) - 4,154

Richard Newson - 1,238

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)

Allan Grossman

Allan Grossman

Allan Grossman was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada, for 20 years, a provincial cabinet minister and the father of the late former leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, Larry Grossman. Together, the father and son represented the downtown Toronto, Ontario,...

(incumbent) - 6,143

Francis Chambers (incumbent) - 5,920

Norman Freed - 3,156

Henderson - 1,053

Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods and Little Italy

Little Italy, Toronto

Little Italy, sometimes referred to as College Street West, is a district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is well known for its numerous Italian Canadian restaurants and businesses. There is also a significant Latin American and Portuguese community in the area...

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Joseph Gould

Joseph Gould (Ontario politician)

Joseph M. Gould was an Ontario municipal and provincial politician. He was a trail lawyer in private life. Gould was first the alderman for the City of Toronto's Ward 5 in the 1950s and was the Ontario Liberal Party's Member of Provincial Parliament for the Bracondale electoral district in...

- 6,490

Philip Givens

Philip Givens

Philip Gerald Givens, QC was a Mayor of Toronto, Canada, Member of Parliament and judge.Raised in Toronto, Givens attended Harbord Collegiate Institute....

(incumbent) - 6,294

Harold Menzies - 4,851

Charles Sims

Charles Sims

Charles Sims may refer to:* Charles Sims , British painter* Charles Sims , American mathematician* Charles Sims , World War I flying ace...

 - 3,692

Lockhart - 1,372

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...

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May Robinson (incumbent) - 10,291

Frank Clifton - 7,177

Lester Nelson - 6,350

Colucci - 4,065

Hector MacArthur - 2,174

Genovese - 1,747

Patrick McKeown - 1,112

Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)

William Davidson (incumbent) - 6,017

John Kucherepa

John Kucherepa

John William Kucherepa was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons.Kucherepa was born in Toronto, Ontario where he attended the Humberside Collegiate Institute and Western High School of Commerce in his youth...

(incumbent) - 4,441

John Duncan - 4,260

Selkirk - 2,919

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...

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Ross Lipsett (incumbent) - 11,898

Alex Hodgins (incumbent) - 10,913

McNulty - 4,671

William Probert - 3,603

John Square - 893

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...

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Roy Belyea (incumbent) - 14,007

Leonard Reilly (incumbent) - 10,241

David Burt - 9,807

Results taken form the December 8, 1953 Toronto Star and might not exactly match final tallies.