1945 Toronto municipal election
Introduction Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1945.Controller Robert Hood Saunders defeated incumbent Frederick J. Conboy to be elected mayor.
Toronto mayor Conboy had served as mayor since 1940 and was seeking his fifth term of office, but he was decisively beaten by Saunders. ;Results:'''Robert Hood Saunders''' - 68,757:Frederick J. Conboy - 36,299
Board of Control The Board of Control had two vacant seats in the 1945 election. Robert Saunders had left his seat to run for mayor and Fred Hamilton had retired. Five current or past alderman ran for the positions, with Hiram E. McCallum and communist Stewart Smith winning seats. ;Results:'''David Balfour''' (incumbent) - 47,931:'''William J. Wadsworth''' (incumbent) - 45,942:'''Stewart Smith''' - 41,691:'''Hiram E. McCallum''' - 41,201:Leslie Saunders - 34,587:Ernest Bogart - 34,258:Gordon Millen - 30,235:Harry Bradley - 9,589
City council Ward boundaries used in the 1945 election;Ward 1 (Riverdale):'''William Murdoch''' - 5,180:'''Charles Walton''' - 4,306:William Simpson - 2,710:John McGuigan - 2,517:W.S.B. Armstrong - 1,582:Irene Humble - 1,357;Ward 2 (Cabbagetown and Rosedale):'''Louis Shannon''' (incumbent) - 5,426:'''George A. Wilson''' (incumbent)  - 3,925:May Birchard - 3,456;Ward 3 (West Downtown and Summerhill):'''John S. Simmons''' (incumbent) - 3,132:'''Harold Fishleigh''' (incumbent) - 2,915:William Smith - 601:Francis Burns - 589:Karl Prager - 402;Ward 4 (The Annex, Kensington Market and Garment District):'''Norman Freed''' (incumbent) - acclaimed:'''Nathan Phillips''' (incumbent) - acclaimed;Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods:'''Charles Sims''' (incumbent) - 7,788:'''Arthur Frost''' - 6,497:Harold Menzies - 4,058:Maxwell Armstrong - 2,338;Ward 6 (Davenport and Parkdale):'''Kenneth Bert McKellar''' (incumbent) - 9,068:'''Harold Timmins''' (incumbent) - 8,263:William V. Muir - 4,745:Dewar Ferguson - 4,292:Patrick McKeown - 1,169:Charles Dymond - 661;Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction):'''E.C. Roelofson''' (incumbent) - acclaimed:'''Charles Rowntree''' (incumbent) - acclaimed;Ward 8 (The Beaches):'''Walter Howell''' (incumbent) - 7,478:'''William Collings''' (incumbent) - 7,104:Murray Cotterill - 5,132:James Davis - 2,687:Charles Wren - 2,505;Ward 9 (North Toronto):'''John Innes''' (incumbent) - 10,684:'''Melville Wilson''' - 7,605:Robert Ferguson - 3,329:Christine McCarty - 2,211:R.M. McLean - 1,568:Fred Vacher - 1,009:W.H. Harris - 877Results taken from the January 2, 1945 ''Globe and Mail'' and might not exactly match final tallies.
References *Election Coverage. ''Globe and Mail''. January 2, 1945*Election Coverage. ''Toronto Star''. January 2, 1945