Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on January 1, 1936. Sam McBride was elected mayor in a three way race in which incumbent James Simpson

James Simpson (politician)

James "Jimmy" Simpson was a Canadian trade unionist, printer, journalist and left wing politician in Toronto, Ontario...

 finished third.

Toronto mayor

Sitting controller and former mayor McBride was elected mayor. defeating incumbent James Simpson

James Simpson (politician)

James "Jimmy" Simpson was a Canadian trade unionist, printer, journalist and left wing politician in Toronto, Ontario...

. Simpson had been elected mayor the year previously. He was the first Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction...

 (CCF) member and first socialist elected mayor of the city. The CCF was still a minority in "Tory Toronto" and Simpson's anti-Catholic sentiments also hurt him with the electorate. Former alderman Harry Hunt, who had also placed second to Simpson in 1935, finished second again although he had the endorsement of the three right wing newspapers: The Globe, The Mail

The Mail and Empire

The Mail and Empire was formed from the 1895 merger of The Toronto Mail and Toronto Empire newspapers, both conservative newspapers in Toronto, Canada. The paper merged with The Globe to form the The Globe and Mail in 1936....

, and the Telegram

Toronto Telegram

The Toronto Evening Telegram was a conservative, broadsheet afternoon newspaper published in Toronto from 1876 to 1971. It had a reputation for supporting the Conservative Party at both the federal and provincial level. The paper competed with the liberal Toronto Star...

. The Star

Toronto Star

The Toronto Star is Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its print edition is distributed almost entirely within the province of Ontario...

endorsed McBride after having endorsed Simpson the previous election.

Results

Sam McBride - 48,723

Harry W. Hunt - 43,036

James Simpson

James Simpson (politician)

James "Jimmy" Simpson was a Canadian trade unionist, printer, journalist and left wing politician in Toronto, Ontario...

 - 32,636

Board of Control

There was only a single change on 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...

: former controller 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...

 returned to the Board filling the space vacated by McBride.

Results

Ralph Day

Ralph Day

Ralph C. Day was Mayor of Toronto, Ontario from 1938 to 1940. He was also an accomplished funeral director, owning his own funeral home. He also served as chairman of the Toronto Transit Commission in the 1960s and 1970s....

(incumbent) - 68,335

William J. Wadsworth

William J. Wadsworth

William J. Wadsworth was a long serving municipal politician in Toronto, Canada.He was born in Flesherton, Ontario and migrated to Toronto his family moved to the West Toronto Junction while he was still a youth...

(incumbent) - 62,838

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...

- 52,170

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...

(incumbent) - 51,465

Joseph Elijah Thompson - 31,546

Miller - 30,613

Tim Buck

Tim Buck

Timothy "Tim" Buck was a long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada...

 - 20,873

Harry Bradley - 4,986

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....

)

W.A. Summerville (incumbent) - 9,673

Frank M. Johnston (incumbent) - 9,335

Harry Bell - 2,630

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....

)

Adelaide Plumptre

Adelaide Plumptre

Adelaide Wilson Plumptre was a Canadian activist, diplomat, and municipal politician in Toronto.She was born Adelaide Proctor in Surrey, England and studied at Somerville College, Oxford University. There she met and married H.P. Plumtree, the vice-principal of the theological college...

- 4,203

John R. Beamish (incumbent) - 4,114

Allan Lamport - 2,942

William Dennison - 1,992

Percy Bishop - 1882

George Lewis - 713

Thomas James - 412

Lewis Jones - 171

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...

)

John Laidlaw (incumbent) - 3,795

John S. Simmons (incumbent) - 3,713

Albert Gardner - 2,675

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)

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 ....

(incumbent) - 4,941

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) - 4,811

H.M. Goodman - 2,466

J.B. Salsberg - 2,343

Max Federman - 816

S.C. Schiller - 225

Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods)

Fred Hamilton (incumbent) - 7,211

Robert Leslie (incumbent) - 5,621

Ward Markle - 3,010

Clifford Blackburn - 2,089

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....

 - 1,967

James Conner - 1,718

Thomas Black - 1,210

Charles Kerr - 1,057

Valentine Burda - 240

L.L. Jarvis - 163

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...

)

Frederick J. Conboy

Frederick J. Conboy

Frederick Joseph Conboy was a Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Toronto, Ontario from 1941 to 1944....

(incumbent) - 12,885

D.C. MacGregor (incumbent) - 7,526

William Miller - 4,605

William V. Muir - 3,536

Richard Jones - 1,967

Harry Stephenson - 1,661

Bertram Tipping - 1,030

Robert Harding - 373

Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)

George H. Gardiner (incumbent) - 5,125

Frank Whetter (incumbent) - 3,603

Charles Rowntree - 3,206

McMurray - 895

Russell Thompson - 533

Shaw - 296

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...

)

Ernest Bray (incumbent) - 9,291

Walter Howell (incumbent) - 8,338

Fred Baker - 7,823

Bert Leavens - 2,508

Philip Hughes - 682

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...

)

Douglas McNish (incumbent) - 8,479

William D. Ellis (incumbent) - 8,353

Ross Sheppard - 5,665

Charles Reeves - 1,548

Alfred Burgess - 1,005

Results taken from the January 2, 1936 Toronto Star and might not exactly match final tallies.