1902 Toronto municipal election

Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 6, 1902. In the mayoral election, Mayor Oliver Aiken Howland won a second term in office defeating William Findlay Maclean, a sitting Member of Parliament and founder of The Toronto World newspaper, who campaigned on a platform of public ownership, regulation and control over utilities such as waterworks, gasworks, electricity, and telephone, and the privately owned Toronto Railway Company (which operated the cities streetcar routes), as well as promising nighttime and Sunday streetcar service, and against temperance measures. Maclean's intention of simultaneously holding both the mayoralty and a seat in the Canadian House of Commons was a factor in his defeat. Another issue that hurt Maclean was his support for softening Toronto's blue law to allow for Sunday streetcar service. The third candidates was Charles Woodley who was the standard-bearer of the Socialist Labor Party.

Toronto mayor

 * Results
 * Oliver Aiken Howland (incumbent) - 13,424
 * William Findlay Maclean, M.P. - 8,774
 * Charles Christopher Woodley - 633

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Board of Control
The Toronto Board of Control was, in 1902, elected by Toronto City Council from among its members. At the first council meeting following the general election, council chose Aldermen Graham, Crane, Loudon and McMurrich to sit on the body, which was chaired by the Mayor.

Plebiscites
A plebiscite was held on a by-law to authorize expenditure on new buildings on the Exhibition grounds.


 * Exhibition buildings
 * For - 5,097
 * Against - 3,342

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City council
Four aldermen were elected to Toronto City Council per ward. Former mayor John Shaw attempted to win an aldermanic seat in the Third Ward, but was defeated.


 * First Ward (Riverdale)
 * James Frame (incumbent) - 1,684
 * Robert Fleming - 1,614
 * Fred H. Richardson (incumbent) - 1,301
 * William Temple Stewart (incumbent) - 1,203
 * John Preston - 1,126
 * Dr. Hugh Spears - 326


 * Second Ward (Cabbagetown and Rosedale)
 * Frank S. Spence - 2,318
 * Joseph Oliver (incumbent) - 2,050
 * Thomas Foster (incumbent) - 1,825
 * Daniel Lamb (incumbent) - 1,626
 * Edward Strachan Cox (incumbent) - 1,525
 * John Akers - 1,081
 * John Henderson - 615
 * W.A. Douglass - 405


 * Third Ward (Central Business District and The Ward)
 * Oliver Barton Sheppard (incumbent) - 2,578
 * Samuel George Curry - 2,551
 * George McMurrich (incumbent) - 2,526
 * John Francis Loudon (incumbent) - 2,233
 * Henry Sheard (incumbent) - 2,070
 * Joseph George Ramsden - 1,832


 * Fourth Ward (Spadina)
 * Thomas Urquhart - 3,280
 * William Burns (incumbent) -2,803
 * James Crane (incumbent) - 2,709
 * William Peyton Hubbard (incumbent) - 2,496
 * Alex R. Williamson - 1,830
 * Edmund Schilling - 254


 * Fifth Ward (Trinity-Bellwoods)
 * William Bell (incumbent) - 2,017
 * John Dunn - 1,914
 * Frank Woods (incumbent) - 1,892
 * Alexander Stewart - 1,632
 * James Russell Lovett Starr (incumbent) - 1,581
 * Dr. William Stewart Fraleigh (incumbent) - 1,332
 * H.E. Hamilton - 769


 * Sixth Ward (Brockton and Parkdale)
 * John Joseph Ward (incumbent) - 1,604
 * John James Graham (incumbent) - 1,551
 * Dr. Adam Lynd (incumbent) - 1,319
 * J.Harvey Hall - 1,178
 * James Henry McGhie - 989
 * W.W. Hodgson (incumbent) - 929
 * William O'Neill - 245
 * R.H. Holmes - 216
 * Robert Buist Noble - 210

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