page_title: December 1936 Toronto municipal election
section_title: City council
hierarchical_section_title: December 1936 Toronto municipal election / City council
caption_attribution_description: English: map of Toronto wards as used in 1964
context_page_description: Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on December 7, 1936, after being moved up from the traditional New Year's Day vote. William D. Robbins was easily elected mayor to his first full term in office.
context_section_description: The Communist Party of Canada managed to elect Stewart Smith to City Council from Ward 5. In future elections he would be joined by other Communists such as J.B. Salsberg in forming a far left faction on city council. The Communist Party, and its successor the Labor-Progressive Party would continue to elect members to council until the late 1940s.
  Ward 1 (Riverdale)
  W.A. Summerville (incumbent) - 6,794
  Frank M. Johnston (incumbent) - 6,717
  Graham Spry - 3,440
  Ernest Hewett - 2,727
  Harry Bell - 1,161
  Ward 2 (Cabbagetown and Rosedale)
  Allan Lamport - 3,982
  Adelaide Plumptre (incumbent) - 3,445
  John R. Beamish (incumbent) - 3,194
  William Dennison - 1,479
  Winston George Harris - 808
  Bob King - 320
  William McFerran - 221
  Ward 3 (Central Business District)
  John S. Simmons (incumbent) - 2,785
  Percy Quinn - 1,784
  Fred Bartrem - 1,419
  Neil MacMillan - 961
  Jean Laing - 692
  Ward 4 (Kensington Market and Garment District)
  Nathan Phillips (incumbent) - 4,127
  Robert Hood Saunders (incumbent) - 3,884
  J.B. Salsberg - 3,633
  Herbert Orliffe - 813
  Albert Leslie - 673
  Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods
  Stewart Smith - 3,500
  Ernest Bogart - 3,076
  Albert Hacker - 3,041
  Ward Markle - 2,862
  Clifford McBride - 2,713
  Harold Menzies - 2,618
  Charles Ward - 1,773
  Harold Kerr - 896
  James Conner - 795
  Alfons Stanewski - 616
  Thomas Guy - 439
  Valentine Burda - 273
  Basil Ingelby - 165
  Ward 6 (Davenport and Parkdale)
  D.C. MacGregor (incumbent) - 6,786
  George Grannell  - 5,044
  William V. Muir - 4,182
  William Miller - 3,439
  John Reid - 2,658
  Neil Cameron - 2,129
  Harry Stephenson - 1,518
  Jones - 1,031
  Bertram Tipping - 746
  William Logie - 742
  Grace Farrow - 370
  Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)
  George H. Gardiner (incumbent) - 5,125
  Frank Whetter (incumbent) - 3,603
  Charles Rowntree - 3,206
  McMurray - 895
  Thompson - 533
  Shaw - 296
  Ward 8 (The Beaches)
  Walter Howell (incumbent) - 8,116
  Ernest Bray (incumbent) - 8,001
  Ernest Woollon - 4,725
  Frederick Collins - 1,390
  David Weir - 615
  Ward 9 (North Toronto)
  William D. Ellis (incumbent) - 6,580
  William Croft - 5,338
  John Innes - 5,282
  Results taken from the December 8, 1936 Toronto Star and might not exactly match final tallies.
caption: Ward boundaries used in the 1936 election
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