# 1901 Toronto municipal election

None is correct &#x2D; please see [[WP:SDNONE]] Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 7, 1901. In the mayoral election, Oliver Aiken Howland was elected, defeating Alderman Frank S. Spence as well as incumbent Mayor Ernest A. Macdonald, who came in third place, and former mayor John Shaw, who came in fourth place. In the council elections, seventeen incumbent alderman were returned and five were defeated.
Shortly after the election, Mayor Howland called off plans by the city to put into public ownership the privately owned municipal gasworks company, despite the plan having been approved in the plebiscite by a large majority.

## Toronto mayor
### Results

    Oliver Aiken Howland - 12,300
    Alderman Frank S. Spence - 8,076
    Ernest A. Macdonald (incumbent) - 3,354
    John Shaw - 990
    Charles Christopher Woodley - 224
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## Board of Control

The Toronto Board of Control was elected by Toronto City Council from among its members. The number of Controllers was increased from thee to four, in addition to the Mayor who chairs the Board. At the first council meeting following the general election, four Conservatives were chosen. Aldermen Sheppard, Frame and Lamb were chosen on the first ballot and Aldermen Hubbard was chosen on the second, beating out Alderman Graham.

## Plebiscites

A plebiscite was held on putting the municipal gas plant into public ownership and operation. Despite the plebiscite passing, the new Howland administration cancelled the project.

### Gasworks

    For - 13,398
    Against - 6,488
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## City council

Four aldermen were elected to Toronto City Council per ward.

### First Ward (Riverdale)

    James Frame (incumbent) - 1,870
    John Russell (incumbent) - 1,352
    William Temple Stewart (incumbent) - 1,321
    Fred H. Richardson - 1,207
    John Preston - 1,077

### Second Ward (Cabbagetown and Rosedale)

    Thomas Foster (incumbent) - 2,947
    Joseph Oliver - 2,432
    Edward Strachan Cox (incumbent) - 1,824
    Daniel Lamb (incumbent) - 1,742
    John Akers - 1,360
    Thomas W. Barber - 1,329

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

    Oliver Barton Sheppard (incumbent) - 2,561
    John Francis Loudon (incumbent) - 2,314
    Henry Sheard - 1,922
    George McMurrich (incumbent) - 1,878
    Bernard Saunders (incumbent) - 1,620
    John Morrison - 1,585
    Joseph George Ramsden - 1,499
    Samuel George Curry - 993
    Thomas Hunter - 733
    Robert L. Fraser - 720
    Thomas W. Curtis - 286
    Robert Barton - 101
    James B. Tremaine - 100

### Fourth Ward (Spadina)

    Thomas Urquhart - 3,191
    William Burns (incumbent) - 2,680
    William Peyton Hubbard (incumbent) - 2,673
    James Crane (incumbent) - 2,500
    Alex R. Williamson - 1,688
    Samuel Platt - 740

### Fifth Ward (Trinity-Bellwoods)

    James Russell Lovett Starr - 1,887
    Dr. William Stewart Fraleigh - 1,748
    William Bell (incumbent) - 1,593
    Frank Woods (incumbent) - 1,571
    Alexander Stewart - 1,503
    A.R. Denison (incumbent) - 1,418
    John Dunn (incumbent) - 1,340
    David Clark - 594
    J.J. Dunbar - 447
    Edmund Schilling - 81

### Sixth Ward (Brockton and Parkdale)

    John James Graham (incumbent) - 1,758
    John Joseph Ward (incumbent) - 1,562
    W.W. Hodgson (incumbent) - 1,523
    Dr. Adam Lynd - 1,367
    J.M. Bowman - 1,318
    Alexander Asher (incumbent) - 1,171
    William O'Neill - 359
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