Somerset Ward

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Somerset
Ottawa City Council
Councillor Diane Holmes

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 kmĀ² 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.

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[edit] City councillors

  1. Elisabeth Arnold (1994-2003)
  2. 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%

[edit] Ottawa municipal election, 2006

City council
Candidate Votes %
Diane Holmes 6600 63.07%
Luc Lapointe 1782 17.03%
George Guirguis 1497 14.31%
Karen Dawe 359 3.43%
Idris Ben-Tahir 226 2.16%

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