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.^[1] 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.^[2][3] The third candidates was Charles Woodley who was the standard-bearer of the Socialist Labor Party.^[1]

Results

Oliver Aiken Howland (incumbent) - 13,424

William Findlay Maclean, M.P. - 8,774

Charles Christopher Woodley - 633

Source: ^[2]

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.^[4]

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

Source: ^[2]

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

Source: ^[2] and ^[5]

Results taken from the January 7, 1902 Toronto Globe and might not exactly match final tallies.