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, Ontario, Canada, on January 2, 1911. Mayor

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was easily reelected mayor. Four members of the Board of Control and seven councillors also were elected, through block voting and first past the post, respectively.

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Mayor

had been elected mayor the year previous 1910. His only opposition were two candidates who had never before held elected office. Herbert Capewell, who finished second, had no intention of winning and declared his campaign a protest against the city taking over public transit in the city from private companies. ;Results :

(incumbent) - 30,931 :Herbert Capewell - 2,671 :Robert Buist Noble - 530

Board of Control

There was one change to the Board of Control as ''Toronto Daily Star'' founder Horatio Clarence Hocken won a seat at the expense of incumbent Thomas Foster. : Horatio Clarence Hocken - 22,761 : Frank S. Spence (incumbent) - 16,187 : J.J. Ward (incumbent) - 15,999 : Tommy Church (incumbent) - 15,760 : Thomas Foster (incumbent) - 15,540 :Thomas Davies - 3,285

City council

Toronto Municipal Wards for the 1910 civic election

;Ward 1 ( Riverdale) : Daniel Chisholm (incumbent) - 3,627 : Zephaniah Hilton (incumbent) - 3,292 : Thomas N. Phelan (incumbent) - 3,200 : William J. Saunderson - 2,722 :Samuel Fieldhouse - 386 ;Ward 2 ( Cabbagetown and Rosedale) : John O'Neill (incumbent) - 2,741 : Henry Adams Rowland (incumbent) - 2,472 : Robert Yeomans - 1,394 : Charles A. Risk - 1,376 :J.W. Siddall - 1,072 ;Ward 3 (

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and The Ward) : Charles A. Maguire (incumbent) - 3,436 : Norman Heyd (incumbent) - 2,580 : Marmaduke Rawlinson - 2,559 : Sam McBride (incumbent) - 2,530 :John Kirk - 780 ;Ward 4 (

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and Garment District) : George R. Sweeny - 3,146 : George McMurrich (incumbent) - 3,064 :

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(incumbent) - 2,814 :James Commeford - 2,452 ;Ward 5 (

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) :

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(incumbent) - 3,428 : John Dunn (incumbent) - 3,422 : R.H. Graham (incumbent) - 3,224 :R.W. Dockeray - 2,777 ;Ward 6 ( Brockton and Parkdale) : J.O. McCarthy (incumbent) - 3,724 : James Arthur McCausland (incumbent) - 3,712 : Fred McBrien - 3,697 : David Spence (incumbent) - 3,561 ;Ward 7 (

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) : A.J. Anderson (incumbent) - 1,452 : W.A. Baird (incumbent) - 966 :Edward Wakefield - 452 Results taken from the January 3, 1911 ''Toronto Globe'' and might not exactly match final tallies.

References

*Election Coverage. ''Toronto Globe''. January 3, 1911 {{Toronto elections 1911 elections in Canada

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