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 km 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
- Elisabeth Arnold (1994-2003)
- Diane Holmes (2003-2014)
- Catherine McKenney (2014–2022)
- 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.
| Regional council
|
| Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
| Diane Holmes |
6,496 |
76.07
|
| Dale Curwin |
1,080 |
12.64
|
| Ross Taylor |
742 |
8.69
|
| Bill Overall |
222 |
2.60
|
1997 elections
| City council
|
| Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
| Elisabeth Arnold |
4,004 |
78.16
|
| Kris Schimmel |
1,119 |
21.84
|
| City council
|
| Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
| Elisabeth Arnold |
6,517 |
75.77
|
| Olivia Bradley |
2,084 |
24.2
|
| City council
|
| Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
| Diane Holmes |
4105 |
61.62%
|
| Dawn Pickering |
1195 |
17.94%
|
| David MacDonald |
567 |
8.51%
|
| William A. Ostapyk |
366 |
5.49%
|
| Steve Sweeney |
189 |
2.84%
|
| Sotos Petrides |
132 |
1.98%
|
| Bill Driver |
55 |
0.83%
|
| Mike Jung |
53 |
0.80%
|
| City council
|
| Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
| Diane Holmes |
6600 |
63.07%
|
| Luc Lapointe |
1782 |
17.03%
|
| George Guirguis |
1497 |
14.31%
|
| Karen Dawe |
359 |
3.43%
|
| Idris Ben-Tahir |
226 |
2.16%
|
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 council
|
| Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
| Diane Holmes |
6282 |
66.51
|
| Don Fex |
2024 |
21.43
|
| Susan Miller |
810 |
8.58
|
| Barkley Pollock |
329 |
3.48
|
Source
| City council
|
| Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
| Catherine McKenney |
3,997 |
40.13
|
| Jeff Morrison |
1,681 |
16.88
|
| Martin Canning |
1,631 |
16.38
|
| Conor Meade |
807 |
8.10
|
| Edward Conway |
576 |
5.78
|
| Thomas McVeigh |
434 |
4.36
|
| Lili V. Weemen |
292 |
3.94
|
| Denis Schryburt |
223 |
2.24
|
| Sandro Provenzano |
99 |
0.99
|
| Curtis Tom |
77 |
0.77
|
| Silviu Riley |
43 |
0.43
|
| Council candidate
|
Vote
|
%
|
|
|
Catherine McKenney |
7,754 |
76.66
|
|
|
Jerry Kovacs |
1,461 |
14.44
|
|
|
Arthur David |
701 |
6.93
|
|
|
Merdod Zopyrus |
199 |
1.97
|
| Council candidate
|
Vote
|
%
|
|
|
Ariel Troster
|
8,669
|
61.28
|
|
|
Stuart MacKay
|
4,706
|
33.29
|
|
|
Brandon Russell
|
768
|
5.43
|
References
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