The city of Ottawa, Canada held municipal elections on December 7, 1925 to elect members of the 1926 Ottawa City Council.
Mayor of Ottawa Incumbent mayor John P. Balharrie is re-elected without opposition.
CandidateVotes%John P. Balharrie Acclaimed
Plebiscites There were four plebiscites put to the voters. All four would fail. Are you in favor (sic) of reducing the present city assessment on business, incomes and improvements at the rate of ten per cent a year until fifty per cent is exempted; and if the city services require the taxes thus lapsing, the assessment be placed on all land values in the city? OptionVotes% No 9,868 53.48 Yes 8,583 46.52
Property owners struck down a proposal from cross town tracks.
Are you in favor (sic) of the Corporation applying to the legislature for authority to raise upon debentures and to pay over to the Canadian National Railways one-half the cost of establishing a new railway make-up yard southeast of the Rideau river and the amount necessary for track revision west of Graham's Bay at a total cost to the city not to exceed $350,000, such moneys to be paid such company on condition that it will remove its Bank and Elgin streets yards to such new location and will abandon through train movements between the canal and the western city limit? OptionVotes% No 4,302 55.85 Yes 3,401 44.15
Voters also struck down a proposal to lengthen council terms to two-years. All but Central and St. George Wards were against.
Two-year terms OptionVotes% Against 10,400 54.27 For 8,763 45.73
Property owners voted against a money debenture bylaw for $12,000 for the West End Market
West End Market OptionVotes% Against 4,372 57.02 For 3,296 42.98
Ottawa Board of Control (4 elected) CandidateVotes%Frank H. Plant 11,676 18.03Herbert McElroy 8,796 13.58 Arthur Ellis 8,307 12.83Charles J. Tulley 7,784 12.02 Patrick Nolan 6,823 10.54 Omer Langlois 5,600 8.65 S. Rupert Broadfoot 4,911 7.58 Walter Cunningham 4,148 6.41 Fred Desjardins 3,359 5.19 Napoleon A. Bordeleau 3,357 5.18
Ottawa City Council (2 elected from each ward)
Rideau WardCandidateVotes%Tom Brethour 525 24.93David Esdale 525 24.93Robert Ingram 435 20.66 Marcil 330 15.67 McCarthy 291 13.82
By WardCandidateVotes%Frank LaFortune AcclaimedEric Query Acclaimed
St. George WardCandidateVotes%Thomas E. Dansereau AcclaimedHugh J. McNulty Acclaimed
Wellington WardCandidateVotes%James W. McNabb 1,599 32.31Erenest D. Lowe 1,398 28.25Willoughby 1,193 24.11A. Gamble 759 15.34
Capital WardCandidateVotes%McGregor Easson 2,813 43.09Harold D. McCormick 2,522 38.63 Dr. McKinnon 1,193 18.28
Dalhousie WardCandidateVotes%Sam Crooks 2,290 32.51Jim Forward 1,744 24.76McCarthy 1,201 17.05John Dawson 988 14.02 Marsden 677 9.61 Fitzpatrick 145 2.06
Victoria WardCandidateVotes%Ernest Laroche AcclaimedGerald Sims Acclaimed
Ottawa WardCandidateVotes%J. A. Pinard 1,290 36.75Aristide Belanger 1,215 34.62St. Denis 1,005 28.63
Central WardCandidateVotes% William R. Low 1,775 46.09 C. Allen Snowdon 1,576 40.92 Burgess 500 12.98
References The Ottawa Evening Citizen, Dec 8, 1925, pg 1, 9, 12