Somerset Ward

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Somerset (Ward 14) is a city ward in the city of Ottawa, 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 Diane Holmes. It has an area of 6.5 sq. km. and a projected 2006 population of 38,500. According to Canada 2001 Census it had a population of 36,365. The ward was created in 1994 when Dalhousie Ward and Wellington Ward were merged.

1 City councillors
2 Population data
3 Election results

[edit] City councillors

Elisabeth Arnold (1994-2003)
Diane Holmes (2003-present)

[edit] 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

[edit] Election results

[edit] Ottawa municipal election, 1997

City council
Candidate	Votes	%
Elisabeth Arnold (X)	4004	78.16
Kris Schimmel	1119	21.84

[edit] Ottawa municipal election, 2000

City council
Candidate	Votes	%
Elisabeth Arnold (X)	6517	75.77
Olivia Bradley	2084	24.2

[edit] Ottawa municipal election, 2003

City council
Candidate	Votes	%
Diane Holmes	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%