The city of Ottawa, Canada held municipal elections on January 6, 1919 to elect members of the 1919 Ottawa City Council.
The election saw a woman elected in the city for the first time, with Marion McDougall (wife of the late John Lorn McDougall) being elected as a public school trustee in Dalhousie Ward.
Mayor of Ottawa Fisher won seven of the city's nine wards, while Parent won the city's two francophone wards, By and Ottawa.
CandidateVotes%Harold Fisher 7,624 62.16Rufus H. Parent 4,642 37.84
Plebiscites Ottawa Electric Railway to be taken over and run by a commission before 1923. OptionVotes% Yes 8,234 75.31 No 2,700 24.69
Ottawa Electric Railway to be taken over and run by a commission in 1923. OptionVotes% Yes 8,771 79.12 No 2,314 20.88
Ottawa Electric Railway to be taken over and run by a commission. OptionVotes% Yes 8,943 81.65 No 2,010 18.35
By-law to provide for an expenditure of $150,000 on a bridge of the Rideau Canal at Somerset Street OptionVotes% Yes 2,658 50.08 No 2,649 49.92
The plebiscite lost in all but three wards, but won St. George Ward (which the bridge would connect with Downtown) by a large enough margin to pass city-wide by just nine votes. Despite the result, a bridge would not be built at that location until the Corktown Footbridge was built in 2006.
By-law to secure authority to expend $150,000 on the establishment and maintenance of a civic coal yard OptionVotes% Against 3,161 59.73 For 2,163 40.63
Ottawa Board of Control (4 elected) CandidateVotes%Frank H. Plant 6,666 18.54Joseph Kent 6,501 18.08Napoléon Champagne 6,206 17.26J. W. Nelson 5,298 14.74 James Muir 5,229 14.55 Thomas Brethour 4,985 13.87 Peter Glavey 1,062 2.95
Ottawa City Council (2 elected from each ward)
Rideau WardCandidateVotes%Douglas H. Macdonald 352 33.78Breary Slinn 285 27.35William Cherry 206 19.77Daudelin 199 19.10
By WardCandidateVotes%Edward Gaulin 652 37.86Fred Desjardins 613 35.60Labelle 457 26.54
St. George WardCandidateVotes%Walter Cunningham Wilfrid J. Grace
Wellington WardCandidateVotes%James D. Denny Charles R. Stephen
Capital WardCandidateVotes%Arthur R. Ford 1,417 35.35William Y. Denison 1,094 27.30 McCormick 848 21.16 Walsh 649 16.19
Dalhousie WardCandidateVotes%John P. Balharrie 1,181 31.82James A. Forward 944 25.44 O'Meara 671 18.08 Pelletier 572 15.41 Hunt 343 9.24
Victoria WardCandidateVotes%Ernest Laroche AcclaimedDavid Rice Acclaimed
Ottawa WardCandidateVotes%Joseph Albert Pinard 850 36.39Waldo Guertin 633 27.10 Bordeleau 476 20.38 Beauregard 377 16.14
Central WardCandidateVotes% John F. McKinley Acclaimed Charles Pepper Acclaimed
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