Leslie Saunders Nathan Phillips Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on December 6, 1954.

Controller Leslie Saunders had been appointed mayor after the resignation of Allan Lamport, who left to work with the Toronto Transit Commission.

He was challenged by Nathan Phillips, a longtime city councilor who had made a previous attempt to win the mayoralty.

Phillips was Jewish, a sharp departure from the standard for Toronto mayors, who for decades had been Protestant Orange Order members.

Saunders was a leader of the Orange Order and the publisher of the radical monthly newspaper Protestant Action.

One of his first acts after ascending to the mayoralty was to issue an official proclamation commemorating The Twelfth, the anniversary of the victory of William of Orange over the Irish.

Also running was former school board head Arthur Brown, who had previously come close to defeating Lamport for the job, and who had the support of the Globe and Mail newspaper.

Source: "Weston, Leaside Voters To Elect 10 Councillors", The Globe and Mail (1936-2016); Dec 3, 1954; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: pg.