Toronto's *The Globe* from 3 January 1910 showing the results of the 1910 municipal election.
**Municipal elections** were held in **Toronto**, Ontario, Canada, on 1 January 1910. George Reginald Geary was elected to his first term as mayor. Two proposals were also approved by the voters: 

1. To build a subway system
2. To elect school trustees according to wards (districts).

Three by-laws were also voted on, two passed. The approved by-laws were: 

1. Building new buildings on the land of the Canadian National Exhibition;
2. Building more fire and police stations.

The by-law that failed to win approval was the one calling for the extension of Bloor Street by means of a viaduct.

Voting eligibility
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Unlike today, many people were not allowed to vote. Women could only vote if they owned land and were either not married or widowed.  There were also limits on which men could vote and people who didn't own land weren't allowed to vote on certain questions.

Toronto mayor
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Mayor Joseph Oliver did not run for re-election. George Reginald Geary had run for the mayor's office in 1908 but lost to Oliver before winning a seat on the Board of Control (the city council's executive) the next year. In an open race in 1910, Geary's main opponent was fellow Controller Horatio Clarence Hocken, founder of the *Toronto Star* and social reformer whom he defeated by 4,000 votes.

Results
**George Reginald Geary**  - 18,996
Horatio Clarence Hocken - 14,999
Thomas Davies - 644
Robert Buist Noble - 192
Joel Marvin Briggs - 93

Board of Control
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All results are sourced from the 3 January 1910 *The Globe*, page one.

**Frank S. Spence** - 13,879
**J.J. Ward** (incumbent) - 13,401
**Tommy Church** - 12,657
**Thomas Foster** - 10,841
William Spence Harrison (incumbent) - 9,946
William Peyton Hubbard - 9,498
Mark Bredin - 8,708
James Henry McGhie - 7,511
James Hales - 5,852
Albert Chamberlain - 2,730

City council
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A map of Toronto's seven municipal wards as they appeared for the 1 January 1910 election. (Source: Toronto Daily Star)
Ward 1
**Thomas N. Phelan** - 3,194
**Daniel Chisholm** (incumbent) - 2,887
**Zephaniah Hilton** (incumbent) - 2,402
William J. Saunderson - 1,957
Andrew McMillan (incumbent) - 1,550
James William Jackson - 1,449
Ward 2
**John O'Neill** (incumbent) - 2,544
**Henry Adams Rowland** - 1,877
**William J. Hambly** - 1,647
Robert Yeomans - 1,234
Donald Urquhart - 900
James Edward Forfar - 573
Frederick Hogg - 460
James O'Hara - 269
Frederick Burrows - 186
Ward 3
**Charles A. Maguire** (incumbent) - 3,623
**Sam McBride** - 2,759
**Norman Heyd** - 2,619
Stewart Nassau Hughes - 1658
John Kirk - 1,291
Ward 4
**George Weston** - 2,895
**Albert Welch** (incumbent) - 2,226
**George McMurrich** (incumbent) - 2,228
James Commeford - 1,776
A.E. Hacker - 1,602
A.R. Williamson - 1,462
J.N Sloan - 483
Ward 5
**John Dunn** (incumbent) - 2,605
**Joseph May** - 2,508
**Robert Henry Graham** (incumbent) - 2,023
Robert William Dockeray - 1,792
Albert James Keeler (incumbent) - 1,764
Peter Whytock - 1,698
John L. Richardson - 1,414
Richard Pugh Powell - 730
Ward 6
**Jesse O. McCarthy** - 3,276
**James Arthur McCausland** - 2,992
**David Spence** - 2,571
Fred McBrien - 2,562
John James Graham (incumbent) - 1,830
Thomas Edward Earls - 235
Ward 7
**A.J. Anderson** (incumbent) - acclaimed
**William Alexander Baird** (incumbent) - acclaimed