# 1902 Toronto municipal election

Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 6, 1902. In the mayoral election, Mayor Oliver Aiken Howland won a second term in office defeating William Findlay Maclean, a sitting Member of Parliament and founder of The Toronto World newspaper, who campaigned on a platform of public ownership, regulation and control over utilities such as waterworks, gasworks, electricity, and telephone, and the privately owned Toronto Railway Company (which operated the cities streetcar routes), as well as promising nighttime and Sunday streetcar service, and against temperance measures. Maclean's intention of simultaneously holding both the mayoralty and a seat in the Canadian House of Commons was a factor in his defeat. Another issue that hurt Maclean was his support for softening Toronto's blue law to allow for Sunday streetcar service. The third candidates was Charles Woodley who was the standard-bearer of the Socialist Labor Party.

## Toronto mayor
### Results

    Oliver Aiken Howland (incumbent) - 13,424
    William Findlay Maclean, M.P. - 8,774
    Charles Christopher Woodley - 633
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## Board of Control

The Toronto Board of Control was, in 1902, elected by Toronto City Council from among its members. At the first council meeting following the general election, council chose Aldermen Graham, Crane, Loudon and McMurrich to sit on the body, which was chaired by the Mayor.

## Plebiscites

A plebiscite was held on a by-law to authorize expenditure on new buildings on the Exhibition grounds.

### Exhibition buildings

    For - 5,097
    Against - 3,342
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## City council

Four aldermen were elected to Toronto City Council per ward. Former mayor John Shaw attempted to win an aldermanic seat in the Third Ward, but was defeated.

### First Ward (Riverdale)

    James Frame (incumbent) - 1,684
    Robert Fleming - 1,614
    Fred H. Richardson (incumbent) - 1,301
    William Temple Stewart (incumbent) - 1,203
    John Preston - 1,126
    Dr. Hugh Spears - 326

### Second Ward (Cabbagetown and Rosedale)

    Frank S. Spence - 2,318
    Joseph Oliver (incumbent) - 2,050
    Thomas Foster (incumbent) - 1,825
    Daniel Lamb (incumbent) - 1,626
    Edward Strachan Cox (incumbent) - 1,525
    John Akers - 1,081
    John Henderson - 615
    W.A. Douglass - 405

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

    Oliver Barton Sheppard (incumbent) - 2,578
    Samuel George Curry - 2,551
    George McMurrich (incumbent) - 2,526
    John Francis Loudon (incumbent) - 2,233
    Henry Sheard (incumbent) - 2,070
    Joseph George Ramsden - 1,832

### Fourth Ward (Spadina)

    Thomas Urquhart - 3,280
    William Burns (incumbent) -2,803
    James Crane (incumbent) - 2,709
    William Peyton Hubbard (incumbent) - 2,496
    Alex R. Williamson - 1,830
    Edmund Schilling - 254

### Fifth Ward (Trinity-Bellwoods)

    William Bell (incumbent) - 2,017
    John Dunn - 1,914
    Frank Woods (incumbent) - 1,892
    Alexander Stewart - 1,632
    James Russell Lovett Starr (incumbent) - 1,581
    Dr. William Stewart Fraleigh (incumbent) - 1,332
    H.E. Hamilton - 769

### Sixth Ward (Brockton and Parkdale)

    John Joseph Ward (incumbent) - 1,604
    John James Graham (incumbent) - 1,551
    Dr. Adam Lynd (incumbent) - 1,319
    J.Harvey Hall - 1,178
    James Henry McGhie - 989
    W.W. Hodgson (incumbent) - 929
    William O'Neill - 245
    R.H. Holmes - 216
    Robert Buist Noble - 210
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