Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on January 2, 1950. This was the last time election were held in January, as a ballot measure passed changing the election date to the first Monday in December. This attempt to increase turnout went into effect immediately and an election was held December 4, 1950

Toronto municipal election, December 1950

Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on December 4, 1950. It was the first time the election were held in December; previously they occurred on New Year's day. Incumbent mayor Hiram E. McCallum narrowly defeated Allan Lamport...

. The central issue of the campaign was whether to legalize sport on Sundays, with Controller Allan Lamport the main proponent. A referendum was held on the subject, and it passed by a slim margin.

Toronto mayor

Incumbent 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...

 easily won reelection against two minor candidates.

Results

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...

- 133,320

C.H. Mahoney - 19,658

Ross Dowson

Ross Dowson

Ross Jewitt Dowson was a Canadian Trotskyist political figure.-Early life:Dowson joined the Trotskyist movement as a teenager during the Great Depression. The Canadian Trotskyist movement collapsed at the beginning of World War II as leaders such as Jack MacDonald, Maurice Spector and Earle Birney...

 - 15,600

Board of Control

All sitting members 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...

 chose to run for reelection. Alderman 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....

 attempted to win a seat, but finished fifth.

Results

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) - 96,139

Leslie Saunders (incumbent) - 87,799

David Balfour (incumbent) - 78,090

Allan Lamport (incumbent) - 72,436

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....

 - 72,059

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....

 - 45,251

Harry Bradley- 21,719

Frederick Vacher - 9,850

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....

)

John McMechan (incumbent) - 9,328

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,...

- 8,512

Kenneth Waters - 8,060

Roy Cadwell - 3,299

Harry Marley - 2,263

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....

)

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....

- 6,237

Beverley Sparling - 5,642

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...

 - 5,560

Sylvester Perry - 2,064

William MacKenzie - 1,422

Harold West - 692

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....

)

Harold Fishleigh (incumbent) - acclaimed

Howard Phillips (incumbent) - acclaimed

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) - 7,941

Norman Freed (incumbent) - 6,553

Francis Chambers  - 6,319

Alfred Whiskin - 649

Francis Love - 648

Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods)

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...

- 10,252

Arthur Frost (incumbent) - 10,110

Charles Sims (incumbent) - 8,462

Pat McKeown - 1,086

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...

)

George Granell (incumbent) - 15,029

Lester Nelson - 8,299

William Duckworth - 7,971

Robert Colucci - 7,573

Dewar Ferguson - 5,596

Harry Branscombe - 3,720

Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)

William Davidson - 8,727

Alfred Cowling (incumbent) - 8,005

David Sanderson - 5,989

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...

)

Ross Lipsett - 13,686

W.H. Collings (incumbent) - 12,174

Roy Mealing (incumbent) - 9,560

Maurice Punshon - 3,646

William Probert - 3,040

John Square - 968

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...

)

Frank Nash (incumbent) - 15,677

Roy Belyea (incumbent) - 15,486

William Mitchell - 10,542

Results taken from the January 3, 1950 Toronto Star and might not exactly match final tallies.