Toronto's Use of Multi-Member Districts -- Ontario saw the use of MMDs

For one type of election or another, Toronto voters cast their votes in multi-member districts most of the period from 1840 to 1969.

Colonial Upper Canada

Toronto had two members 1840-1860s

(Toronto continued as a two-seat district until 1861 (election of 7th Parliament of United Provinces) when it was split into two single-member districts.

This is described in Wikipedia "Toronto (Province of Canada electoral district).")

City level

three-seat wards in 1904  Block Voting

(1905-1950s I don't know the DM used)

two-seat wards in 1960s... Block voting

four-seat Board of Control elected city-wide  Cumulative Voting 1904-1969?

(see Montopedia "Timeline of Canadian electoral reform part 2")

Provincial level

1886 to 1894, Limited voting used in 1886 and 1890 elections for three MPPs,

each voter had two votes

1908 and 1911 seat/post system in four Toronto districts (each electing two members)

1914-1926 Block Voting

Federal level

2-seat West Toronto riding  Block Voting 1892-1904.

(sometimes called Toronto West)

see

https://montopedia.wixsite.com/montopedia/post/canada-federally-and-in-the-provinces-and-territories-used-multi-member-districts-part-2

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In the Toronto city election of 1904, 12 members of the Board of Education were elected.

Each voter could cast up to 12 votes, but with no more than three given to any candidate. This meant that if one-quarter of the voters gave all their three votes to a candidate, he or she would be elected. If they did that with four candidates, the four would be elected - four out of 12.

Any minority smaller than a quarter of the electorate would not be assured of electing even one candidate, due to the three-vote limit on cumulating.

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Other parts of Ontario used MMDs as well:

The riding of Ottawa had two seats 1872 to 1933

The riding of Hamilton had two seats  1872-1903