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 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.
City council CandidateVotes%Elisabeth Arnold 4,529 50.48Peter Harris 4,443 49.52
Regional councilCandidateVotes%Diane Holmes 6,496 76.07Dale Curwin 1,080 12.64Ross Taylor 742 8.69Bill Overall 222 2.60
1997 elections City councilCandidateVotes%Elisabeth Arnold 4,004 78.16Kris Schimmel 1,119 21.84
Regional CouncilCandidateVotes%Diane Holmes Acclaimed
2000 Ottawa municipal election City councilCandidateVotes%Elisabeth Arnold 6,517 75.77Olivia Bradley 2,084 24.2
2003 Ottawa municipal election City councilCandidateVotes%Diane Holmes 4105 61.62%Dawn Pickering 119517.94%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%
2006 Ottawa municipal election City councilCandidateVotes%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%
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 Holmes 6282 66.51Don Fex 2024 21.43Susan Miller 810 8.58 Barkley Pollock 329 3.48
2014 Ottawa municipal election Source
City councilCandidateVotes%Catherine McKenney 3,997 40.13Jeff Morrison 1,681 16.88Martin Canning 1,631 16.38Conor Meade 807 8.10Edward Conway 576 5.78Thomas McVeigh 434 4.36Lili V. Weemen 292 3.94Denis Schryburt 223 2.24Sandro Provenzano 99 0.99Curtis Tom 77 0.77Silviu Riley 43 0.43
2018 Ottawa municipal election 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
2022 Ottawa municipal election Council candidate Vote % Ariel Troster 8,669 61.28 Stuart MacKay 4,706 33.29 Brandon Russell 768 5.43
References
External links Map of Somerset Ward