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 km² 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.
City councillors
- Elisabeth Arnold (1994-2003)
- Diane Holmes (2003-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 |
% |
| Elisabeth Arnold | 4,529 | 50.48 |
| Peter Harris | 4,443 | 49.52 |
| Regional council |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
| Diane Holmes | 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 |
% |
| Elisabeth Arnold | 4,004 | 78.16 |
| Kris Schimmel | 1,119 | 21.84 |
| City council |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
| Elisabeth Arnold | 6,517 | 75.77 |
| Olivia Bradley | 2,084 | 24.2 |
| 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% |
| 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% |
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 |
% |
| Diane Holmes | 6282 | 66.51 |
| Don Fex | 2024 | 21.43 |
| Susan Miller | 810 | 8.58 |
| Barkley Pollock | 329 | 3.48 |
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