The city of Ottawa, Canada held municipal elections on December 4, 1972.
Controller Pierre Benoit is easily elected without significant opposition. Ottawa's city council is divided in two, as this marks the first election where only one alderman is elected from each ward, as opposed to two.
Mayor of Ottawa CandidateVotes%Pierre Benoit 57,634 90.26Alphonse Frederick Lapointe 2,520 3.52Oscar Orenstein 2,095 3.28Jack Ridout 1,602 2.51
Ottawa Board of Control (4 elected) 859/861 polls reporting CandidateVotes% Lorry Greenberg (X) 40,438 Garry Guzzo (X) 30,357 Tom McDougall (X) 30,267 Ernie Jones (X) 24,721 Charlie St. Germain 23,702 Eileen Scotton 20,027 Byron Hyde 16,599 Sam McLean 6,853 Joseph Louis Paradis 5,167 Brian Bourns 3,856
City council
Alta Vista WardCandidateVotes%Don Kay (X) Acclaimed
Gloucester WardCandidateVotes%Joe Quinn (X) 4,803 William Mason 1,176
Britannia WardCandidateVotes%Marion Dewar 1,367 Sandy Boyce 862 Brian McNally 714 Mike McMullen 566 Ken Creppin 452 Charles Strang 384 Suzanne Saunders 199 Richard MacDonald 198 Gerald Cammy 197 Gary Hugh 19
Rideau WardCandidateVotes %Rhéal Robert (X) 3,218* Des Bender (X) 3,192* Bob Edwards 350
*Official results published on December 7. A recount held on December 27 indicated Robert had only won by 12 votes.
Capital WardCandidateVotes%Don Lockhart 1,652 Ron Wood 1,206 Ian Kimmerly 1,692 Randal Marlin 1,066 Claude Burchill 821 Ed Henry 517 Leo Morency 273 Tad Pachulski 153
Carleton WardCandidateVotes%Bill Law (X) 4,373 Ken Read 1,310
Queensboro WardCandidateVotes%Ed Mulkins (X) 2,422 Len Trudel 1,718 Eleanor Parmelee 987 Grant Johnston 369 Douglas Brown 252 George Ayoub 134
Dalhousie WardCandidateVotes%Gale Kerwin (X) 1,618 Rudy Capogreco (X) 1,368 Kitty Duggan 236 Gerald Tremblay 169
Elmdale-Victoria WardCandidateVotes%Walter Ryan (X) 2,511 Keith Hearn 1,980 Pat Nicol 1,403
By-St. George's WardCandidateVotes%Jules Morin (X) 2,383 Georges Bedard 1,479 Gerard Levesque 1,209 Bernard Wood 1,175
Wellington WardCandidateVotes%Joe Cassey 1,516 Matt McGrath (X) 1,110 Jim Robinson 1,083 Les Jones 481
References
Ottawa Journal, December 5, 1972