The city of Ottawa, Canada, held municipal elections on December 3, 1956.
Controller George Nelms is acclaimed as mayor, the last election in Ottawa's history where a candidate for mayor has run unopposed. Nelms was not the incumbent mayor. The incumbent was Charlotte Whitton who decided not to run again.
After four years of wards just having numbers, names were returned to each of the wards. The size of council also increased by one ward, with the split of Ward 1 into two wards.
Mayor of Ottawa CandidateVotes%George Nelms Acclaimed
Ottawa Board of Control (4 elected) CandidateVotes% Paul Tardif (X) 30,157 Ernie Jones (X) 26,480 Wilbert Hamilton 24,167 Sam Berger 24,004 Roy Donaldson (X) 23,127 Stewart Crawford 9,168
City council
(2 elected from each ward)
Gloucester WardCandidateVotes%Pat Doherty (X) 2,268 Alex Roger 2,073 Patrick Boyce 1,467 Gordon Willis 113
Rideau WardCandidateVotes%Robert Groves (X) 2,372 J. D. Wentzell 2,006 Margaret Newman 1,166 J. G. Drouin 1,118 Reba Kingston 1,021
Capital WardCandidateVotes%George Sloan 3,700 Noel Ogilvie (X) 3,486 James A. Donaldson (X) 3,172
Carleton WardCandidateVotes%Howard Henry (X) 3,186 Frank Boyce (X) 2,487 Lloyd Francis 2,124 G. C. Brown 831
Queensboro WardCandidateVotes%Lon Campbell (X) 3,451 Richard Barber (X) 3,239 P. H. Moore 1,816
Dalhousie WardCandidateVotes%James McAuley (X) 2,931 Charles Parker 2,043 Percy Kerwin 1,748 John Barlow 1,100
Elmdale-Victoria WardCandidateVotes%Roly Wall (X) 3,193 Henry Bradley (X) 3,133 Henry Fauteux 2,329
By WardCandidateVotes%Jules Morin (X) 3,005 Clem Aubin (X) 2,206 Paul-Emile Morin 1,916 M. Henri Rheaume 1,083
St. George's WardCandidateVotes%Charlie St. Germain (X) 3,280 May Nickson (X) 1,763 Sam McLean 1,383 Cecile O'Regan 1,240
Wellington WardCandidateVotes%Don Reid (X) 2,775 Lionel O'Connor 1,288 H. G. Caldwell 904 James Beauchamp 867 Robert E. Robinson (X) 866 Sam Chandler 839 W. T. Lewis 339
References
Ottawa Citizen, December 4, 1956