# 1907 Toronto municipal election

Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1907. Incumbent Mayor of Toronto Emerson Coatsworth was re-elected to a second one-year term, defeating Socialist Party of Canada candidate James Lindala and Robert Buist Noble, who was also a socialist. Lindala's strong showing and the mayor's reduced vote total was seen as a repudiation of Coatsworth with The Globe newspaper declaring on its front page "that an unknown Socialist tailor of foreign birth should poll over eight thousand votes for the Mayoralty of Toronto against a barrister of irreproachable personal character, who at one time represented his native city in Parliament... proves how utterly repugnant has been the jellyfish administration of the past year." Coatsworth did not run for a third term the following year.

## Toronto mayor
### Results

    Emerson Coatsworth - 13,698
    James Lindala - 8,286
    Robert Buist Noble - 1,330
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## Board of Control

Two incumbent members of the Toronto Board of Control were re-elected, while Controllers S. Alfred Jones and John Shaw were defeated. William Spence Harrison and Horatio Clarence Hocken joined the Board.
    John J. Ward (incumbent) - 9,362
    William Spence Harrison - 9,054
    Horatio Clarence Hocken - 8,639
    William Peyton Hubbard (incumbent) - 8,483
    Robert Fleming - 7,077
    S. Alfred Jones (incumbent) - 6,710
    John Shaw (incumbent) - 6,465
    John Dunn - 5,038
    Thomas Davies - 1,390
    Joel Marvin Briggs - 496
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## Plebiscites

Four plebiscites were held. Proposals for $3 million to be spent on a trunk sewer, $110,000 to build a bridge over Yonge Street to accommodate streetcars and $125,000 for a new entrance to the Exhibition grounds were defeated. A proposal was approved to allow the city to enter into negotiations to purchase electricity from the new public Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario rather than private electricity companies, despite the criticisms of the mayor and the opposition of private electric companies.

### Power by-law

    For -10,696
    Against -2,905

### Exhibition by-law

    For - 4,015
    Against - 8,841

### Trunk sewer by-law

    For - 5,427
    Against - 7,515

### Yonge Street Bridge by-law

    For - 4,354
    Against - 7,812
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## City council

Three aldermen were elected to Toronto City Council per ward.

### First Ward (Riverdale)

    Daniel Chisholm (incumbent) - 1,758
    Edward Hales - 1,402
    James Wilson - 1,282
    William Temple Stewart (incumbent) - 1,142
    William John Saunderson - 1,107

### Second Ward (Cabbagetown and Rosedale)

    Thomas Foster - 1,719
    James Hales - 1,402
    Tommy Church (incumbent) - 1,653
    Dr. John Noble (incumbent) - 1,172
    Edward Strachan Cox - 1,065
    Frederick Hogg - 816
    Patrick O'Connor - 725

### Third Ward (Central Business District and The Ward)

    George Reginald Geary (incumbent) - 2,608
    John Wilson Bengough - 2,389
    Sam McBride (incumbent) - 1,058
    J.A. Humphrey - 936
    Francis William Johnston - 883
    John Harris - 755
    John Solomon Granatstein - 409
    Abraham Friedman - 135

### Fourth Ward (Spadina)

    George McMurrich (incumbent) - 2,507
    Robert Crawford Vaughan (incumbent) - 2,501
    Thomas Alexander Lytle - 1,862
    Harry Lovelock - 1516
    Alexander R. Williamson - 1,062
    Dr. Charles E. Stacey - 940

### Fifth Ward (Trinity-Bellwoods)

    Albert James Keeler (incumbent) - 1,953
    Robert Henry Graham - 1,559
    Peter Whytock - 1,479
    John Aldridge - 1,173
    William Carlyle - 1,063
    Blayney Harvey Scott- 969
    William J. Bell - 645
    Henry Egbert Hurd - 622
    John Albert Couch - 500
    Henry T. Meredith - 463

### Sixth Ward (Brockton and Parkdale)

    James Henry McGhie (incumbent) - 2,654
    John James Graham (incumbent) - 2,176
    John Henry Adams (incumbent) - 1,850
    Thomas Hurst - 1,415
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