Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on 1 January 1910. George Reginald Geary was elected to his first term as mayor.[1] Two proposals were also approved by the voters:
Unlike today, many people were not allowed to vote. Women could only vote if they owned land and were either not married or widowed. [2] There were also limits on which men could vote and people who didn't own land weren't allowed to vote on certain questions.
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.