Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on January 1, 1948. Robert Hood Saunders

Robert Hood Saunders

Robert Hood Saunders, Q.C., CBE was mayor of Toronto from 1945 to 1948, President of the Canadian National Exhibition, chairman of the Ontario Hydro ....

 was re-elected as mayor in an election that also saw no changes on the Board of Control or City Council.

Toronto mayor

Mayor Robert Hood Saunders

Robert Hood Saunders

Robert Hood Saunders, Q.C., CBE was mayor of Toronto from 1945 to 1948, President of the Canadian National Exhibition, chairman of the Ontario Hydro ....

 faced only Trotskyist 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...

 and was easily reelected.

Results

Robert Hood Saunders

Robert Hood Saunders

Robert Hood Saunders, Q.C., CBE was mayor of Toronto from 1945 to 1948, President of the Canadian National Exhibition, chairman of the Ontario Hydro ....

- 118,097

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...

 - 15,008

Board of Control

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...

(incumbent) - 83,812

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) - 80,834

David Balfour (incumbent) - 77,087

Kenneth McKellar (incumbent) - 75,356

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....

 - 47,791

Harry Bradley - 15,711

Harry Clairmont - 4,858

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....

)

Leslie Saunders (incumbent) - 7,970

Charles Walton (incumbent) - 7,059

Eugene Murdoch - 4,730

Harry Marley - 2,501

Arnold Lorenz - 1,967

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....

)

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) - 6,628

Everett Weaver (incumbent) - 5,288

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...

 - 4,048

William Dennison - 2,892

Roy Boskett - 356

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) - 4,712

Allan Lamport (incumbent) - 3,848

Frank Nasso - 943

Will Smith - 514

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) - 7,439

Norman Freed (incumbent) -

Francis Chambers -

William Gallaher - 588

Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods

Arthur Frost (incumbent) - 9,525

Charles Sims (incumbent) - 8,030

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...

 - 7,333

Margaret Luckock - 3,192

Patrick McKeown - 796

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...

)

Frank Clifton (incumbent) - 13,924

George Granell (incumbent) - 15,589

Dewar Ferguson - 7,830

Samuel Thomas - 2,331

Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)

William Butt (incumbent) - 7,629

E.C. Roelofson (incumbent) - 7,115

John Lenglet - 3,259

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...

)

W.H. Collings (incumbent) - acclaimed

Roy Mealing (incumbent) - acclaimed

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...

)

Leonard Reilly (incumbent) - 12,643

Melville Wilson (incumbent) - 11,458

Frank Nash - 9,366

Results taken from the January 2, 1949 Globe and Mail and might not exactly match final tallies.