# 1944 Toronto municipal election

Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1944. Incumbent Frederick J. Conboy defeated Controller Lewis Duncan. The election was a notable defeat for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF, a social democratic party) as it lost all representation on city council.

## Toronto mayor

Conboy had served as mayor since 1940 and was seeking his fourth term of office. He was opposed by CCFer Lewis Duncan who had also run and lost in 1939 and 1940.

### Results

    Frederick J. Conboy - 78,383
    Lewis Duncan - 58,712

## Board of Control

The Board of Control had one open seat due to Duncan's run for mayor. Alderman William Dennison attempted to hold the seat for the CCF, but finished in distant seventh. Three other former aldermen ran for the seat Hiram E. McCallum, David Balfour, and communist Stewart Smith with Balfour winning the seat.

### Results

    Robert Hood Saunders (incumbent) - 73,383
    Fred Hamilton (incumbent) - 52,694
    William J. Wadsworth (incumbent) - 52,485
    David Balfour - 50,599
    Hiram E. McCallum - 50,337
    Stewart Smith - 41,277
    William Dennison - 30,026
    William Muir - 19,061
    Harry Bradley - 7,743

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

    Leslie Saunders (incumbent) - 7,999
    Gordon Millen (incumbent) - 7,758
    John McGuigan - 3,444
    Stanley Ryerson - 1,959
    Irene Humble - 1,475

### Ward 2 (Cabbagetown and Rosedale)

    Louis Shannon (incumbent) - 5,798
    George A. Wilson - 4,432
    Henry Glendinning - 2,538
    May Birchard - 2,179
    Harold Toye - 1,819
    Gordon W. Armstrong - 819

### Ward 3 (West Downtown and Summerhill)

    John S. Simmons (incumbent) - 3,132
    Harold Fishleigh - 2,915
    John Frank (incumbent) - 1,917
    J.R. Huffman - 909
    William Smith - 488
    Marjorie Garrow - 439
    Charles Lewis - 408
    Francis Burns - 321

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

    Nathan Phillips (incumbent) - 4,951
    Norman Freed - 4,211
    H.A. Ross - 3,829
    Herbert Orliffe - 2,797
    Charles Hamilton - 1,569

### Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods

    Ernest Bogart (incumbent) - 7,083
    Charles Sims - 7,016
    Arthur Frost - 5,337
    Harold Menzies - 3,473
    Maxwell Armstrong - 2,460

### Ward 6 (Davenport and Parkdale)

    Kenneth Bert McKellar - 8,903
    Harold Timmins - 8,622
    Jack Bennett (incumbent) - 6,707
    George Granell - 3,749
    Dewar Ferguson - 3,015
    Patrick O'Donovan - 2,567
    Nina Dean - 2,238
    Patrick McKeown - 627
    Charles Dymond - 469

### Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)

    Charles Rowntree (incumbent) - 7,393
    E.C. Roelofson (incumbent) - 5,542
    Eva Sanderson - 2,756
    Frank Cormack - 2,118

### Ward 8 (The Beaches)

    Walter Howell (incumbent) - 9,431
    William Collings - 6,542
    Murray Cotterill - 5,833
    E.S. McGuinness - 5,377
    H.L. McKinstry - 3,990
    J.E. McMillan - 2,102

### Ward 9 (North Toronto)

    John Innes (incumbent) - 14,252
    Donald Fleming (incumbent) - 13,948
    R.M. McLean - 3,499
    Christien McCarty - 2,174
Results taken from the January 3, 1944 Globe and Mail and might not exactly match final tallies.