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Somerset Ward

FieldValue
nameSomerset
image_mapOttawa-somerset.PNG
map_captionLocation within Ottawa
coordinates
subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_nameCanada
subdivision_type1Province
subdivision_name1Ontario
subdivision_type2City
subdivision_name2Ottawa
leader_titleCouncillor
leader_nameAriel Troster
area_total_km25.8
population_footnotesCanada 2011 Census
population_total35,110
population_as_of2011
population_density_km2auto
demographics_type1Languages (2016)
demographics1_title1English
demographics1_info166.6%
demographics1_title2French
demographics1_info213.0%
demographics1_title3Cantonese
demographics1_info32.1%
demographics1_title4Arabic
demographics1_info41.9%
demographics1_title5Mandarin
demographics1_info51.8%
demographics1_title6Spanish
demographics1_info61.6%
demographics1_title7Vietnamese
demographics1_info71.3%
demographics1_title8Persian
demographics1_info81.0%
blank_name_sec1Avg. income
blank_info_sec138,202

Somerset (Ward 14) is a city ward in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It covers the neighbourhoods of Downtown Ottawa, Centretown, Lebreton Flats and most of Centretown West. It is Ottawa's smallest and most dense ward. It is represented on Ottawa City Council by Ariel Troster. It has an area of 6.5 km2 and a projected 2006 population of 38,500. According to the 2001 Canadian census, it had a population of 36,365. The ward was created in 1994 when Dalhousie Ward and Wellington Ward were merged. At the time it was known as just Ward 6 until 1995 when it was given the Somerset name.

City councillors

  1. Elisabeth Arnold (1994-2003)
  2. Diane Holmes (2003-2014)
  3. Catherine McKenney (2014–2022)
  4. Ariel Troster (2022–present)

Population data

Languages (mother tongue):

  • English: 60.2%
  • French: 9.9%
  • Chinese: 7.9% (inc. Mandarin, Cantonese and Chinese)
  • Vietnamese: 1.9%
  • Arabic: 1.8%
  • Italian: 1.7%
  • Spanish: 1.6%

Religion:

  • Roman Catholic: 36.0%
  • No religion: 27.3%
  • Anglican: 6.7%
  • United Church: 5.2%
  • Muslim: 4.7%
  • Buddhist: 3.5%
  • Presbyterian: 1.3%
  • Baptist: 1.3%
  • Jewish: 1.0%
  • Greek Orthodox: 1.0%

Income:

  • Average household income: $51,319
  • Average income: $36,042

Election results

1994 elections

Arnold defeated Harris in a rematch of the 1991 election in Dalhousie Ward for city council.

City councilCandidateVotes%
Elisabeth Arnold4,52950.48
Peter Harris4,44349.52
Regional councilCandidateVotes%
Diane Holmes6,49676.07
Dale Curwin1,08012.64
Ross Taylor7428.69
Bill Overall2222.60

1997 elections

City councilCandidateVotes%
Elisabeth Arnold4,00478.16
Kris Schimmel1,11921.84
Regional CouncilCandidateVotes%
Diane HolmesAcclaimed

[[2000 Ottawa municipal election]]

City councilCandidateVotes%
Elisabeth Arnold6,51775.77
Olivia Bradley2,08424.2

[[2003 Ottawa municipal election]]

City councilCandidateVotes%
Diane Holmes410561.62%
Dawn Pickering119517.94%
David MacDonald5678.51%
William A. Ostapyk3665.49%
Steve Sweeney1892.84%
Sotos Petrides1321.98%
Bill Driver550.83%
Mike Jung530.80%

[[2006 Ottawa municipal election]]

City councilCandidateVotes%
Diane Holmes660063.07%
Luc Lapointe178217.03%
George Guirguis149714.31%
Karen Dawe3593.43%
Idris Ben-Tahir2262.16%

[[2010 Ottawa municipal election]]

Diane Holmes is running for re-election against Don Fex, a former festival production manager and manager of a local book store, Susan Miller, a former elected School Commissioner for the Western Quebec School Board 2007, and Barkley Pollock, an unsuccessful mayoral candidate from 2006 election, and past supporter of Liberal candidate Richard Mahoney.

City councilCandidateVotes%
Diane Holmes628266.51
Don Fex202421.43
Susan Miller8108.58
Barkley Pollock3293.48

[[2014 Ottawa municipal election]]

Source

City councilCandidateVotes%
Catherine McKenney3,99740.13
Jeff Morrison1,68116.88
Martin Canning1,63116.38
Conor Meade8078.10
Edward Conway5765.78
Thomas McVeigh4344.36
Lili V. Weemen2923.94
Denis Schryburt2232.24
Sandro Provenzano990.99
Curtis Tom770.77
Silviu Riley430.43

[[2018 Ottawa municipal election]]

Council candidateVote%
Catherine McKenney7,754
Jerry Kovacs1,461
Arthur David701
Merdod Zopyrus199

[[2022 Ottawa municipal election]]

Council candidateVote%
Ariel Troster8,669
Stuart MacKay4,706
Brandon Russell768

References

References

  1. [http://data.ottawa.ca/en (Open Data Ottawa)]
  2. "2014 Election Results | City of Ottawa".
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