Toronto municipal election, 1921
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Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on January 1, 1921. Mayor Tommy Church was elected to an unprecedented seventh consecutive term in office.

Toronto mayor

Church had first been elected mayor in 1915 and had been reelected every year since. He was opposed by Sam McBride, who had also challenged Church for the mayoralty in the previous election.

Results
Tommy Church - 35,959
Sam McBride - 19,966

Board of Control

Two 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...

 were defeated: J. George Ramsden
J. George Ramsden
Joseph George Ramsden was a long active municipal politician in Toronto, Canada. He was born in Thornhill and first became active in politics working for Alexander Mackenzie in a York East by-election. He served for fifteen years as Chief Inspector for the Department of Indian Affairs, which saw...

 and R.H. Cameron
R.H. Cameron
Robert Henderson Cameron was a Toronto manufacturer and politician. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1867 and came to Canada as a child with his family in the early 1870s....

.

Results
Charles A. Maguire
Charles A. Maguire
Charles Alfred Maguire was mayor of Toronto from 1922-1923.Charles Alfred Maguire was born in Toronto, the son of James Maguire and Elizabeth Brown....

(incumbent) - 34,141
Wesley Hiltz
William W. Hiltz
William Wesley Hiltz called 'Bill Hiltz' was Mayor of Toronto in 1924. During his term, he introduced time clocks for Toronto city workers. He had a son and grandson, Bill Hiltz, with the same names....

- 22,615
Joseph Gibbons
Joseph Gibbons (Toronto)
Joseph Gibbons was a municipal politician in Toronto, Canada. He was born on a farm outside of Waterloo, Ontario and moved to Toronto in the 1890s. There he found worked as a streetcar driver. He first piloted the horse drawn streetcars up Yonge Street and then served for fifteen years as a driver...

(incumbent) - 18,612
A.R. Nesbitt - 19,202
William D. Robbins
William D. Robbins
William Dullam Robbins was the 45th Mayor of Toronto from 1936 to 1937. He was appointed mayor after the death of incumbent Sam McBride and remained in office until defeated by Ralph Day in the 1937 elections. Robbins was considered a representative of labour in Toronto city politics, but was also...

 - 18,015
R.H. Cameron
R.H. Cameron
Robert Henderson Cameron was a Toronto manufacturer and politician. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1867 and came to Canada as a child with his family in the early 1870s....

 (incumbent) - 17,872
J. George Ramsden
J. George Ramsden
Joseph George Ramsden was a long active municipal politician in Toronto, Canada. He was born in Thornhill and first became active in politics working for Alexander Mackenzie in a York East by-election. He served for fifteen years as Chief Inspector for the Department of Indian Affairs, which saw...

 (incumbent) - 17,393
Herbert Henry Ball
Herbert Henry Ball
Herbert Henry Ball was a Canadian politician and journalist.On October 24, 1885, he married Mary Ann Martin in Bristol, Somerset, England. In 1886, Ball and his wife emigrated to Canada, settling north of Toronto in an area then known as Davisville...

 - 16,911

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....

)
Richard Honeyford (incumbent) - 3,637
F.M. Johnson (incumbent) - 3,829
A.H. Wagstaff - 2,807
W.A. Summerville - 2,447
W.J. Story - 1,106
A.J. Stubbings - 944
J.E. Barnett - 872
W.J. Carmichael - 275
T. Rennick - 257
W.S.B. Armstrong - 195


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....

)
John Winnett (incumbent) - 3,436
Charles A. Risk (incumbent) - 3,086
J.R. Beamish (incumbent) - 2,836
J.M. Day - 1,402
Frederick Hogg - 1,190
W.J. Street - 966
Andrew Ruppert - 535
K. Frawley - 494


Ward 3 (Central Business District
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 The Ward)
Alfred Burgess (incumbent) - 2,685
George Rose - 1,867
Constance Hamilton
Constance Hamilton
Constance Easton Hamilton was the first woman member of Toronto City Council and the first woman in Ontario to hold elected office at either the federal, provincial, or municipal level...

(incumbent) - 1,815
F.W. Johnston (incumbent) - 1,614
C.A. Reed - 1,608
Aubrey Bond - 1,604
Andrew Carrick - 1,182
Robert Morse - 211


Ward 4 (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)
John Cowan (incumbent) - 2,698
Ethel Small
Ethel Small
Ethel Small in 1921 became the second woman elected to the Toronto city council. She was the younger daughter of Ferdinand Oden Horstmann and Harriett Kelley Horstmann...

- 2,616
Joseph Singer (incumbent) - 2,413
A.G. McIntyre - 2,063
C.W. Mogridge - 811
Lewis LeGrow - 431


Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods)
Clifford Blackburn (incumbent) - 4,699
James Phinnemore (incumbent) - 4,103
A.E. Hacker - 3,619
W.R. Plewman (incumbent) - 3,448
R.H. Palmer - 1,040
J.J. Hubbard - 1,033
A. Plenty - 818


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 Birdsall (incumbent) - 7,289
D.C. MacGregor (incumbent) - 6,919
Brook Sykes (incumbent) - 6,581
Earl Hodgson - 1,900
Hattie Stevens - 1,706
R.J. Bradfield - 1,456
R.J. Kirk - 1,305


Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)
Samuel Ryding (incumbent) - 2,257
Frank Whetter (incumbent) - 2,130
H.M Davy - 1,894
A. Chisholm - 1,418
James Simpson - 1,142


Ward 8 (East Toronto
East Toronto
East Toronto, Ontario was an incorporated community in what is today a part of the city of Toronto, Canada. It covered much of what is today the Upper Beaches neighbourhood, stretching up to Danforth Avenue in the north. The central street in the community was Main Street, running south from...

)
Frederick Baker (incumbent) - 3,069
George Cruise - 2,745
Frances Maxwell (incumbent) - 2,499
W.H. Ford - 1,673
H. Ingram - 960
Hector Demers - 931
F.P. England - 608


Results taken from the January 2, 1921 Toronto Daily Star and might not exactly match final tallies.
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