1907 Toronto municipal election
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Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1907. Incumbent Mayor of Toronto Emerson Coatsworth was re-elected to a second one-year term, defeating Socialist Party of Canada candidate James Lindala and Robert Buist Noble, who was also a socialist. Lindala's strong showing and the mayor's reduced vote total was seen as a repudiation of Coatsworth with The Globe newspaper declaring on its front page "that an unknown Socialist tailor of foreign birth should poll over eight thousand votes for the Mayoralty of Toronto against a barrister of irreproachable personal character, who at one time represented his native city in Parliament... proves how utterly repugnant has been the jellyfish administration of the past year."[1] Coatsworth did not run for a third term the following year.
Toronto mayor
- Results
- Emerson Coatsworth - 13,698
- James Lindala - 8,286
- Robert Buist Noble - 1,330
Source: [1]
Board of Control
Two incumbent members of the Toronto Board of Control were re-elected, while Controllers S. Alfred Jones and John Shaw were defeated. William Spence Harrison and Horatio Clarence Hocken joined the Board.
- John J. Ward (incumbent) - 9,362
- William Spence Harrison - 9,054
- Horatio Clarence Hocken - 8,639
- William Peyton Hubbard (incumbent) - 8,483
- Robert Fleming - 7,077
- S. Alfred Jones (incumbent) - 6,710
- John Shaw (incumbent) - 6,465
- John Dunn - 5,038
- Thomas Davies - 1,390
- Joel Marvin Briggs - 496
Plebiscites
Four plebiscites were held. Proposals for $3 million to be spent on a trunk sewer, $110,000 to build a bridge over Yonge Street to accommodate streetcars and $125,000 for a new entrance to the Exhibition grounds were defeated. A proposal was approved to allow the city to enter into negotiations to purchase electricity from the new public Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario rather than private electricity companies, despite the criticisms of the mayor and the opposition of private electric companies.[1]
- Power by-law
- For -10,696
- Against -2,905
- Exhibition by-law
- For - 4,015
- Against - 8,841
- Trunk sewer by-law
- For - 5,427
- Against - 7,515
- Yonge Street Bridge by-law
- For - 4,354
- Against - 7,812
Source: [1]
City council
Three aldermen were elected to Toronto City Council per ward.
- First Ward (Riverdale)
- Daniel Chisholm (incumbent) - 1,758
- Edward Hales - 1,402
- James Wilson - 1,282
- William Temple Stewart (incumbent) - 1,142
- William John Saunderson - 1,107
- Second Ward (Cabbagetown and Rosedale)
- Thomas Foster - 1,719
- James Hales - 1,402
- Tommy Church (incumbent) - 1,653
- Dr. John Noble (incumbent) - 1,172
- Edward Strachan Cox - 1,065
- Frederick Hogg - 816
- Patrick O'Connor - 725
- Third Ward (Central Business District and The Ward)
- George Reginald Geary (incumbent) - 2,608
- John Wilson Bengough - 2,389
- Sam McBride (incumbent) - 1,058
- J.A. Humphrey - 936
- Francis William Johnston - 883
- John Harris - 755
- John Solomon Granatstein - 409
- Abraham Friedman - 135
- Fourth Ward (Spadina)
- George McMurrich (incumbent) - 2,507
- Robert Crawford Vaughan (incumbent) - 2,501
- Thomas Alexander Lytle - 1,862
- Harry Lovelock - 1516
- Alexander R. Williamson - 1,062
- Dr. Charles E. Stacey - 940
- Fifth Ward (Trinity-Bellwoods)
- Albert James Keeler (incumbent) - 1,953
- Robert Henry Graham - 1,559
- Peter Whytock - 1,479
- John Aldridge - 1,173
- William Carlyle - 1,063
- Blayney Harvey Scott- 969
- William J. Bell - 645
- Henry Egbert Hurd - 622
- John Albert Couch - 500
- Henry T. Meredith - 463