Municipal elections were held in

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, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1947. With little serious opposition

Robert Hood Saunders Robert Hood Saunders (May 30, 1903 – January 16, 1955) was mayor of Toronto from 1945 to 1948, and then president of the Canadian National Exhibition, and chairman of the Ontario Hydro (formally named the Hydro Electric Power Commission of O ...

was re-elected as mayor. The election was a major defeat for the communist

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faction on city council, with Controller Stewart Smith and Alderman Dewar Ferguson being defeated. This left the party with only two seats on city council, Norman Freed and Charles Sims. This was somewhat mitigated by two communists winning seats on the Toronto Board of Education. The vote also featured three referendums. Two were approved that would have a lasting effect on the city of Toronto. One called for the creation of the

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housing project in the east end of the city. The second approved the city buying up the land northwest of the intersection of Bay and Queen streets for a city square and municipal buildings. This would later be the site of

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and

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. Rejected for a third time was a proposal to move to three year municipal terms.

Toronto mayor

Mayor

faced only fringe candidates: Frank O'Hearn, who would go on to found the

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, and

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Murray Dowson. ;Results :

- 92,762 :Frank O'Hearn - 9,477 : Murray Dowson - 3,180

Board of Control

The only major change on the Board of Control was the defeat of Stewart Smith, the leader of the Communist faction at city hall. He was ousted by

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alderman John Innes. ;Results : Hiram E. McCallum (incumbent) - 58,524 : John Innes - 53,137 : David Balfour (incumbent) - 51,578 :

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(incumbent) - 49,680 : Stewart Smith (incumbent)- 42,106 :M.A. Sanderson - 26,136 :Harry Bradley - 10,749 :Harry Clairmont - 4,858

City council

;Ward 1 ( Riverdale) : Charles Walton (incumbent) - 4,788 : Leslie Saunders - 4,596 :

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(incumbent) - 3,969 :W. Simpson - 2,067 :Harry Marley - 1,606 ;Ward 2 ( Cabbagetown and Rosedale) : Louis Shannon (incumbent) - 4,102 : Everett Weaver - 3,215 :

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(incumbent) - 3,079 :

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- 3,015 : William Dennison - 2,248 ;Ward 3 (West

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and Summerhill) : Harold Fishleigh (incumbent) - 3,397 :

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(incumbent) - 2,884 :

John McVicar John McVicar (21 March 1940 – 6 September 2022) was a British journalist and convicted one-time armed robber who escaped from prison. Career As a criminal McVicar's criminal career began in his teens with shop break-ins and car thefts. In ...

- 1,245 :Harry Gilbert - 682 :Karl Prager - 271 ;Ward 4 (

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and Garment District) : Norman Freed (incumbent) - 4,910 : Nathan Phillips (incumbent) - 4,690 :

Francis Chambers Francis Chambers (26 December 1828 – 1 December 1900) was a British architect, active in London. Chambers was born in Islington, the son of Francis Chambers, a gentleman, and his wife, Margaret Warlters. He was educated at King's College Sch ...

- 3,703 :C.G. Hamilton - 1,121 ;Ward 5 (

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(incumbent) - 7,283 : Arthur Frost (incumbent) - 6,848 : Margaret Luckock - 4,936 :Patrick McKeown - 1,335 ;Ward 6 (

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and Parkdale) : George Granell - 8,526 : William Clifton - 6,803 : Dewar Ferguson (incumbent) - 5,775 :D.J. Bennett - 5,091 :

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- 1,825 ;Ward 7 (

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) : William Butt (incumbent) - 5,773 : E.C. Roelofson (incumbent) - 3,557 :J.A. Service - 2,240 ;Ward 8 (

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) : W.H. Collings (incumbent) - 8,120 : Roy Mealing - 5,678 : William Howell (incumbent) - 5,319 :

Murray Cotterill Murray Cotterill (June 27, 1913 – February 23, 1995) was a Canadians, Canadian trade union activist and organizer for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). In the 1930s, Cotterill was one of the organisers of the Co-operative Commo ...

- 4,756 :James Davis - 1,522 ;Ward 9 (

) : Melville Wilson (incumbent) - 8,307 : Leonard Reilly - 6,173 :W.H. Harris - 5,999 :Alex Thompson - 4,109 :H.V. Locke - 3,542 :R.M. McLean - 1,480 Results taken from the January 2, 1947 ''Globe and Mail'' and might not exactly match final tallies.

References

*Election Coverage. ''Globe and Mail''. January 2, 1947 {{Toronto elections 1947 elections in Canada

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1947 in Ontario