Somerset Ward Explained

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

1. Elisabeth Arnold (1994-2003)
2. Diane Holmes (2003-2014)
3. Catherine McKenney (2014–2022)
4. 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
Candidate	Votes	%
	4,529	50.48
	4,443	49.52

Regional council
Candidate	Votes	%
	6,496	76.07
Dale Curwin	1,080	12.64
Ross Taylor	742	8.69
Bill Overall	222	2.60

1997 elections

City council
Candidate	Votes	%
	4,004	78.16
Kris Schimmel	1,119	21.84

2000 Ottawa municipal election

City council
Candidate	Votes	%
	6,517	75.77
Olivia Bradley	2,084	24.2

2003 Ottawa municipal election

City council
Candidate	Votes	%
	4105	61.62%
Dawn Pickering	1195	17.94%
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 council
Candidate	Votes	%
	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 council
Candidate	Votes	%
	6282	66.51
Don Fex	2024	21.43
Susan Miller	810	8.58
Barkley Pollock	329	3.48

2014 Ottawa municipal election

Source^[2]

City council
Candidate	Votes	%
	3,997	40.13
Jeff Morrison	1,681	16.88
Martin Canning	1,631	16.38
Conor Meade	807	8.10
Edward Conway	576	5.78
Thomas McVeigh	434	4.36
Lili V. Weemen	292	3.94
Denis Schryburt	223	2.24
Sandro Provenzano	99	0.99
Curtis Tom	77	0.77
Silviu Riley	43	0.43

2018 Ottawa municipal election

Council candidate		Vote	%
bgcolor=#56419A width="30px"			7,754	76.66
bgcolor=#2EAB78 width="30px"		Jerry Kovacs	1,461	14.44
bgcolor=#0D326E width="30px"		Arthur David	701	6.93
bgcolor=#0D0D0D width="30px"		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

External links

• Map of Somerset Ward
  • http://ottawa.ca/election/index_en.html

Notes and References

1. http://data.ottawa.ca/en (Open Data Ottawa)
2. Web site: 2014 Election Results | City of Ottawa.