Incumbent mayor Nathan Phillips, elected a year earlier, was easily reelected, defeating Controller Roy E. Belyea and Trotskyist Ross Dowson.

[2] The proposed structure, designed by a partnership of three leading Toronto architectural forms, would have been a conservative, symmetrical limestone-clad building in the Modernist style facing a landscaped square, and was widely criticized as "drab and boxy".

Hiscott defeated Councillor Joseph Bannigan to replace retiring mayor Howard Burrell Source: "Suburban elections", The Globe and Mail (1936-2016); Toronto, Ont.

[Toronto, Ont]06 Dec 1955: 13 McMahon was re-elected, defeating his challenger Deputy Reeve Maurice T. Hook.

[Toronto, Ont]06 Dec 1955: 13 Source: "Few Brave Cold Rain To Vote in 3 Suburbs", Taylor, Ewart.