# 1951 Toronto municipal election

Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on December 3, 1951. Allan Lamport defeated incumbent Hiram E. McCallum in the mayoral election.

## Toronto mayor

Lamport had challenged McCallum the previous year but had lost by a narrow margin. McCallum had originally planned on retiring and being succeeded by Controller John Innes, but Innes died unexpectedly during the year. The 1951 also saw an attempt at the mayoralty by alderman Nathan Phillips, who finished a distant third. In Phillips' autobiography he states that he expected fellow Conservative McCallum to retire, but that their both running split to vote and allowed Lamport to become the first Liberal elected to run the city since 1909. Lamport ran under the slogan "Toronto needs a fighting mayor."

### Results

    Allan Lamport - 72,648
    Hiram E. McCallum - 59,492
    Nathan Phillips - 24,811

## Board of Control

The only new arrival on the Board of Control was Ford Brand, secretary of the Toronto and District Labour Council. John Innes had died in office and his replacement Alfred Cowling decided to contest the 1951 Provincial Election. Former Controller and avowed Communist Stewart Smith made another attempt to return to the board, but finished a distant fifth.

### Results

    Leslie Saunders (incumbent) - 95,838
    Ford Brand - 92,725
    David Balfour (incumbent) - 91,474
    Louis Shannon (incumbent) - 87,440
    Stewart Smith - 31,317
    Frederick Vacher - 20,039

## City council
### Ward 1 (Riverdale)

    John McMechan (incumbent) - acclaimed
    William Allen (incumbent) - acclaimed

### Ward 2 (Cabbagetown and Rosedale)

    Joseph Cornish (incumbent) - 7,777
    Beverley Sparling (incumbent) - 6,659
    Perry - 3,809

### Ward 3 (West Downtown and Summerhill)

    Howard Phillips (incumbent) - 5,248
    John McVicar - 4,494
    Wilson - 1,257
    Feeley - 929
    Trottier - 750
    Smith - 722

### Ward 4 (The Annex, Kensington Market and Garment District)

    Francis Chambers (incumbent) - 6,412
    Allan Grossman - 4,381
    Norman Freed - 4,250
    Campbell - 3,290
    Garfunkel - 1,573
    Darell Draper - 1,377
    Reeves - 404

### Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods and Little Italy)

    Philip Givens 7,240
    Ernest Bogart - 7,122
    Harold Menzies - 6,600
    Charles Sims - 5,612
    Segal - 1,526

### Ward 6 (Davenport and Parkdale)

    May Robinson - 12,086
    George Granell (incumbent) - 9,497
    Frank Clifton - 8,993
    Lester Nelson - 5,690
    Ferguson - 3,696
    Wilson - 2,141
    Patrick McKeown - 1,282

### Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)

    William Davidson (incumbent) - 8,546
    David Sanderson (incumbent) - 7,602
    John Kucherepa- 4,531

### Ward 8 (The Beaches)

    Ross Lipsett (incumbent) - 13,837
    Alex Hodgins (incumbent) - 11,736
    McNulty - 4,018
    William Probert - 3,399
    Banks - 3,290
    Hoolans - 2,200
    John Square - 758

### Ward 9 (North Toronto)

    Roy E. Belyea (incumbent) - acclaimed
    Leonard Reilly - acclaimed
Results taken from the December 4, 1951 Toronto Star and might not exactly match final tallies.

## Changes

Ward 7 Alderman David Sanderson died on March 25, 1952; John Kucherepa was appointed Alderman on March 31.

## Outside Toronto
### North York

Nelson A. Boylen re-elected as reeve.

### Scarborough

Oliver E. Crockford re-elected as reeve.