1940 Toronto municipal election
Introduction Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1940.Incumbent Ralph Day was re-elected mayor. The election saw little change with all incumbent councillors and Board of Control members being reelected.
Toronto mayor Day was challenged for a second time by lawyer Lewis Duncan. ;Results:'''Ralph Day''' - 61,480:Lewis Duncan - 38,011
Board of Control Two aldermen attempted to win seats on the Board of Control, David A. Balfour and communist Stewart Smith. Neither were successful as all four incumbents were reelected. ;Results:'''Frederick J. Conboy''' (incumbent)  - 78,672:'''Douglas McNish''' (incumbent) - 68,774:'''Fred Hamilton''' (incumbent) - 60,124:'''William J. Wadsworth''' (incumbent) - 55,756:David A. Balfour - 43,261:Stewart Smith - 19,641:Robert Harding - 6,548
City council Ward boundaries used in the 1940 election;Ward 1 (Riverdale):'''Gordon Millen''' (incumbent) - 8,901:'''Frank M. Johnston''' (incumbent) - 8,152:Charles Minett - 2,161:Harry Bell - 1,717:William Richards - 1,024;Ward 2 (Cabbagetown and Rosedale):'''Louis Shannon''' (incumbent) - 5,593:'''Adelaide Plumptre''' (incumbent) - 5,272:Tupper Bigelow - 1,593:George Harris - 920:George A. Wilson - 559:James McCausland - 459;Ward 3 (Central Business District):'''John S. Simmons''' (incumbent) - 3,983:'''Percy Quinn''' (incumbent) - 3,908:Jean Laing - 1,217;Ward 4 (The Annex, Kensington Market and Garment District):'''Nathan Phillips''' (incumbent) - 5,427:'''Robert Hood Saunders''' - 4,900:Claude Pearce - 2,761:J.B. Salsberg - 2,154:Louis Zuker - 1,362:Lloyd Muritt - 381;Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods:'''Ernest Bogart''' (incumbent) - 9,963:'''Charles Carrie''' - 7,556:Fred Collins - 2,686:Pat V. Roach - 1,534:Charles Lewis - 1,506:Charles Kerr - 1,149:Charles Graham - 572;Ward 6 (Davenport and Parkdale):'''William V. Muir''' (incumbent) - 8,503:'''D.C. MacGregor''' (incumbent) - 8,213:George Robinson - 6,554:George Grannell - 5,792:Jack Bennett - 2,613:Richard Jones - 1,140:William Logie - 733;Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction):'''Charles Rowntree''' (incumbent) - 6,395:'''H.M. Davy''' (incumbent) - 5,277:Frank Whetter - 2,893:Harold Clarke - 801:Harry Bradley - 518;Ward 8 (The Beaches):'''Ernest Bray''' (incumbent) - 9,889:'''Walter Howell''' (incumbent) - 9,404:Hiram E. McCallum - 6,330:Ernest Woollon - 4,988;Ward 9 (North Toronto):'''Donald Fleming''' (incumbent) - 8,154:'''John Innes''' (incumbent) - 7,186:Harry Kennedy - 6,690:William D. Ellis - 4,494:Douglas Hodder - 378Results taken from the January 2, 1940 ''Globe and Mail'' and might not exactly match final tallies.
References *Election Coverage. ''Globe and Mail''. January 2, 1940