# 1956 Toronto municipal election

Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on December 3, 1956. Incumbent mayor Nathan Phillips was easily reelected. Jean Newman became the first woman elected to the Board of Control, and topped the poll to become budget chief.

## Toronto mayor

Nathan Phillips, elected two years earlier, faced only limited opposition from Trotskyist Ross Dowson and was easily reelected.

### Results

    Nathan Phillips - 80,352
    Ross Dowson - 9,834

## Board of Control

All four sitting Board of Control members chose to run for re-election. Controller and former mayor Leslie Saunders was pushed off the board by Jean Newman's victory. Newman is the first woman to be elected to the Board of Control or to win a city-wide election in Toronto. The most senior two Controllers in terms of votes also sat on Metro Toronto Council.

### Results

    Jean Newman - 54,785
    Ford Brand (incumbent) - 54,178
    William Allen (incumbent) - 54,038
    Joseph Cornish (incumbent) - 49,385
    Leslie Saunders (incumbent) - 47,048
    Harry Bradley - 16,450
    Charles Sims - 6961
    George Rolland - 5,632

## City council

Two aldermen were elected per Ward. The alderman with the most votes was declared Senior Alderman and sat on both Toronto City Council and Metro Council.

### Ward 1 (Riverdale)

    Ken Waters (incumbent) - 6,318
    Fred Beavis - 3,636
    Jean Brown - 3,412
    George Phillips (incumbent) - 2,578
    Dominic Di Stasi - 1,657
    Basil Ingleby - 494

### Ward 2 (Regent Park and Rosedale)

    William Dennison (incumbent) - 4,962
    May Birchard - 2,614
    Sterling Campbell - 2,567
    Edgar Roxborough (incumbent) - 2,380
    Andrew Kavanaugh - 569
    Philip Rowley - 528

### Ward 3 (West Downtown and Summerhill)

    Ross Parry (incumbent) - 4,149
    John MacVicar - 1,980
    Richard James - 2,537

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

    Herbert Orliffe (incumbent) - 4,437
    Francis Chambers (incumbent) - 3,449
    David Rotenberg - 2,692
    Dorothy Cureatz - 628

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

    Philip Givens (incumbent) - 6,226
    Harold Menzies (incumbent) - 5,177
    Ben Nobleman - 1,500
    Paul Pauk - 1,092

### Ward 6 (Davenport and Parkdale)

    May Robinson (incumbent) - 8,691
    Frank Clifton (incumbent) - 7,171
    William Stevens - 3,884
    Wallace Martin - 2,066
    John Shedden - 1,795
    George Jackson - 1,498

### Ward 7 (Bloor West Village)

    William Davidson (incumbent) - 5,122
    John Kucherepa (incumbent) - 5,069
    Thomas Wilson - 1,548
    Stewart - 1,077
    William Repka - 579

### Ward 8 (The Beaches)

    Donald Summerville (incumbent) - 12,567
    Albert G. Cranham (incumbent) - 9,577
    Chris Stavro - 2,488
    John Square - 1,146

### Ward 9 (North Toronto)

    Frank Nash (incumbent) - 12,084
    Kenneth Ostrander - 10,515
    Alex Thompson - 8,064
Results are taken from the December 4, 1956 Toronto Star and might not exactly match final tallies.

## Changes

Ward 7 Alderman John Kucherepa resigned January 6, 1958 having been elected in the 1957 Federal Election; Thomas Wilson was appointed replacement on January 20.

## Suburbs
### East York
#### Reeve

    Jack Raymond Allen - 5,757
    C. Howard Chandler - 4,510
Jack R. Allen defeated business executive C. Howard Chandler. Source:

### Etobicoke
#### Reeve

    H.O. Waffle - 9,519
    Jack Bennett - 5,014
Deputy Reeve Waffle defeated Bennett, a former Toronto alderman to replace retiring reeve Bev Lewis.

#### Deputy Reeve

    Murray Johnston - 8,005
    Charles Devlin - 6,429
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### Forest Hill
#### Reeve

    Laurie T. Simonsky (acclaimed)
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### Leaside
#### Mayor

    (incumbent)Charles Hiscott (acclaimed)
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### Long Branch
#### Reeve

    (incumbent)Marie Curtis - 1,522
    William Cambera - 553
    Sherman Anderson - 175

#### Deputy Reeve

    Maurice Breen - 1,309
    Stanley Purvis - 888
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### Mimico
#### Mayor

    (incumbent)William Arthur (Gus) Edwards - 1,802
    Owen Gertrude - 1,098
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### New Toronto
#### Mayor

    (incumbent)Donald Russell - 1,783
    David Post - 810
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### North York
#### Reeve

    Vernon Singer - 24,045
    Maurice T. Hook - 5,302
Councillor Singer defeated former deputy reeve Hook to replace retiring reeve, Fred McMahon. Source:

### Scarborough
#### Reeve

    Albert Campbell - 13,470
    (incumbent)Gus Harris - 11,569

#### Deputy Reeve

    George R. Mason - 13,270
    John Algar - 11,361
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### Swansea
#### Reeve

    (incumbent)Dorothy Hague (acclaimed)

#### Deputy Reeve

    H.B. Squarebriggs - 1,233
    K.C. Woodsworth - 740
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### Weston
#### Mayor

* (incumbent)Harry Clark (acclaimed)
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### York
#### Reeve

    Chris Tonks - 8,742
    Walter Saunders - 7,736
    Charles McMaster - 1,993
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