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2006 Ottawa municipal election
Field
Value
election_name
2006 Ottawa mayoral election
flag_image
Flag of Ottawa, Ontario.svg
type
presidential
ongoing
no
previous_election
2003 Ottawa municipal election
previous_year
2003
next_election
2010 Ottawa municipal election
next_year
2010
election_date
November 13, 2006
image1
[[File:Larry O'Brien by James Maclennan.jpg
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candidate1
**Larry O'Brien**
popular_vote1
**141,262**
percentage1
**47.08%**
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073ED1
image2
[[Image:Alexmunter3.PNG
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BBCB47
candidate2
Alex Munter
popular_vote2
108,752
percentage2
36.25%
image3
[[File:Bob Chiarelli Crop.jpg
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ff0000
candidate3
Bob Chiarelli
popular_vote3
46,697
percentage3
15.56%
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Ottawa2006.PNG
map_size
349px
map_caption
Popular vote results by Ward
title
Mayor
before_election
Bob Chiarelli
after_election
Larry O'Brien
turnout
~54% ( ~21pp)
The 2006 Ottawa municipal election was held on November 13, 2006, in Ottawa, Canada, to elect the mayor of Ottawa, Ottawa City Council and the Ottawa-Carleton Public and Catholic School Boards. The election was one of many races across the province of Ontario. See 2006 Ontario municipal elections.
The race featured three main candidates: incumbent mayor Bob Chiarelli, former Kanata councillor Alex Munter and businessman Larry O'Brien. The race began as a fight between Chiarelli and Munter, with Munter getting the edge and 2003 candidate Terry Kilrea in a close third. However, in the summer O'Brien joined the campaign, prompting Kilrea to drop out and endorse Chiarelli. However, most of Kilrea's support went to O'Brien, creating a tight three-way race. Chiarelli's support then got pulled away from the right by O'Brien and to the left by Munter and was eventually depleted, and by the last weekend before the election, O'Brien had caught up to Munter and led for the first time. This lead carried through on election day.
In the end, Munter could only win his core areas in the central part of the city, plus his former home of Kanata, while O'Brien won the rest of the city—suburban areas and the rural areas (where he did especially well). Chiarelli did not win any wards, but he did finish second in Gloucester-South Nepean with 28%. This area of the city was where his O-Train proposal was going to be built.
Results
Voter turn-out
The 2006 municipal election had one of the highest voter turn-out ratios in Ottawa's history, with 54%.
Mayor
Detailed results
Candidate
Residence
Results by ward
[[File:Bob Chiarelli Crop.jpg
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[[Image:Alexmunter3.PNG
65px]]
Piotr Anweiler
Bob Chiarelli (inc.)
Robert Larter
Alex Munter
Carlington
Carlingwood
Vanier*
Downtown
Orléans
44
2325
32
Innes
32
1959
27
Barrhaven
31
2734
14
Kanata North
10
619
10
West Carleton-
March
13
824
13
Stittsville-
Kanata West
9
717
12
Bay
47
2949
36
College
49
3191
37
Knoxdale-
Merivale
37
2345
19
Gloucester-
Southgate
40
2685
27
Beacon Hill-Cyrville
36
1686
40
Rideau-Vanier
45
2377
71
Rideau-
Rockcliffe
44
2333
73
Somerset
57
1725
47
Kitchissippi
44
2414
27
River
47
3025
37
Capital
47
2319
19
Alta Vista
36
3055
45
Cumberland
17
1567
24
Osgoode
10
1123
9
Rideau-
Goulbourn
12
1103
10
Gloucester-
South Nepean
22
2558
19
Kanata South
33
1064
19
***** : Last known residence
City council
Orléans Ward (Ward 1)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Bob Monette** (X)
**12201**
**69.98%**
Dennis Vowles
5235
30.02%
Innes Ward (Ward 2)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Rainer Bloess** (X)
**11746**
**83.65%**
David Cameron
2296
16.35%
Barrhaven Ward (Ward 3)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Jan Harder** (X)
**9433**
**74.94%**
Joe King
1468
11.66%
T.K. Chu
853
6.78%
Catherine Gardner
833
6.62%
Kanata North Ward (Ward 4)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Marianne Wilkinson**
**3661**
**36.23%**
Jeff Seeton
2641
26.41%
Matt Muirhead
2105
20.83%
Anu Bose
1606
15.89%
Eric Forgrave
91
0.90%
West Carleton-March Ward (Ward 5)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Eli El-Chantiry (X)**
**6683**
**67.13%**
J. P. Dorion
3273
32.87%
Stittsville-Kanata West Ward (Ward 6)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Shad Qadri**
**6287**
**72.02%**
Gilles R. Chasles
2442
27.98%
Bay Ward (Ward 7)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Alex Cullen** (X)
**8393**
**52.69%**
Terry Kilrea
6303
39.57%
Sherril Noble
1234
7.75%
College Ward (Ward 8)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Rick Chiarelli** (X)
**13761**
**72.59%**
Brett Delmage
3765
19.86%
Laura Lee Doupe
1432
7.55%
Knoxdale-Merivale Ward (Ward 9)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Gord Hunter** (X)
**10461**
**78.13%**
James Dean
2929
21.87%
Gloucester-Southgate Ward (Ward 10)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Diane Deans** (X)
**9242**
**74.73%**
Douglas Besharah
1660
13.42%
David Alloggia
1465
11.85%
Beacon Hill-Cyrville Ward (Ward 11)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Michel Bellemare** (X)
**6905**
**61.73%**
Frank Reid
4281
38.27%
Rideau-Vanier Ward (Ward 12)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Georges Bédard** (X)
**5685**
**46.72%**
Bruce McConville
5482
45.06%
Krista Driscoll
1000
8.22%
Rideau-Rockcliffe Ward (Ward 13)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Jacques Legendre** (X)
**7450**
**62.35%**
Maurice Lamirande
1953
16.34%
James T. Parker
1248
10.44%
Jules Bouvier
1077
9.01%
Muinis Ramadan
221
1.85%
Somerset Ward (Ward 14)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Diane Holmes** (X)
**6600**
**63.07%**
Luc Lapointe
1782
17.03%
George Guirguis
1497
14.31%
Karen Dawe
359
3.43%
I. Ben-Tahir
226
2.16%
Kitchissippi Ward (Ward 15)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Christine Leadman**
**5949**
**41.12%**
Gary Ludington
4571
31.59%
Vicky Smallman
3576
24.72%
Daniel Narwa
372
2.57%
River Ward (Ward 16)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Maria McRae** (X)
**9278**
**65.51%**
Blake Batson
4885
34.49%
Capital Ward (Ward 17)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Clive Doucet** (X)
**6495**
**48.14%**
Jay Nordenstrom
4602
34.11%
Ian Boyd
1963
14.55%
Sean Curran
433
3.21%
Alta Vista Ward (Ward 18)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Peter Hume** (X)
**10433**
**69.53%**
James Ryan
1955
13.03%
Perry Marleau
1190
7.93%
Yusef Al Mezel
1063
7.08%
Ahmed Ibrahim
224
1.49%
Ismael Lediye
141
0.94%
Cumberland Ward (Ward 19)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Rob Jellett** (X)
**8306**
**71.55%**
Henry Valois
2110
18.18%
Dan Biocchi
1192
10.27%
Osgoode Ward (Ward 20)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Doug Thompson** (X)
**7681**
**85.44%**
Robert Fowler
1309
14.56%
Rideau-Goulbourn Ward (Ward 21)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Glenn Brooks** (X)
**4678**
**44.41%**
Scott Moffatt
3205
30.43%
Iain McCallum
1345
12.77%
Jim Stewart
1305
12.39%
Gloucester-South Nepean Ward (Ward 22)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Steve Desroches**
**3599**
**39.72%**
Andrew S. Haydon
2602
28.72%
Eric Lamoureux
1215
13.41%
Robert McKenney
449
4.96%
Tanya Thompson
1037
11.45%
Don Dransfield
158
1.74%
Kanata South Ward (Ward 23)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Peggy Feltmate (X)**
**8344**
**50.05%**
Allan Hubley
5631
33.78%
Amrik Dhami
1314
7.88%
Richard Rutkowski
811
4.86%
Suraj Harish
571
3.43%
Dropped out
Kitchissippi Ward (Ward 15)
Daniel Stringer
Shawn Little
College Ward (Ward 8)
Dana Barnett withdrew as per her Media Release dated Sept. 6, 2006.
Kanata South (Ward 23)
Noel Z. Gondek withdrew and on Sept. 29, 2006.
Ottawa-Carleton District School Board Trustees
Zone 1 (Wards 5, 6, 21)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Lynn Scott (X)**
**15299**
**77.28%**
Jon Morgan
4499
22.72%
Zone 2 (Wards 4, 23)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Cathy Curry**
ACCLAIMED
Zone 3 (Wards 3, 9)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Alex Getty**
**12629**
**79.97%**
Frank St. Denis
3164
20.03%
Zone 4 (Ward 7)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Margaret Lange (X)**
**8893**
**84.82%**
Samuel Getachew
1592
15.18%
Zone 5 (Ward 8)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Pam FitzGerald**
**9052**
**76.58%**
Cleve Hamilton
2769
23.42%
Zone 6 (Wards 13, 18)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Bronwyn Funiciello (X)**
**7955**
**53.27%**
Russ Jackson
6979
46.73%
Zone 7 (Wards 10, 20, 22)
Candidate
Votes
%
Tom Connolly
8239
47.51%
**Greg Laws (X)**
**9102**
**52.49%**
Zone 8 (Wards 1, 19)
Candidate
Votes
%
John Caputo
724
5.98%
David Loveridge
4536
37.49%
Qamar Masood
1054
8.71%
**John Shea**
**5784**
**47.81%**
Zone 9 (Wards 12, 17)
Candidate
Votes
%
Rob Campbell
ACCLAIMED
Zone 10 (Wards 14, 15)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Jennifer McKenzie**
**9198**
**54.38%**
Joan Spice (X)
7716
45.62%
Zone 11 (Ward 16)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Riley Brockington (X)**
**5617**
**65.75%**
Patrick Ready
2926
34.25%
Zone 12 (Wards 2, 11)
Candidate
Votes
%
**David Moen (X)**
**8453**
**78.03%**
Michel Tardif
2380
21.97%
Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board Trustees
Zone 1 (Wards 5, 6, 20, 21)
Candidate
Votes
%
John Curry (X)
ACCLAIMED
Zone 2 (Wards 4, 23)
Candidate
Votes
%
Romeo Bellai
ACCLAIMED
Zone 3 (Wards 1, 19)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Stephen Blais**
**3124**
**55.30%**
Des Curley (X)
2525
44.70%
Zone 4 (Wards 3, 22)
Candidate
Votes
%
Teri-Lynne Belanger
2055
36.37%
**Cathy Maguire-Urban**
**3596**
**63.63%**
Zone 5 (Wards 2, 11)
Candidate
Votes
%
Dominic Roszak
1169
28.63%
**Kaitlin Sheskay**
**2914**
**71.37%**
Zone 6 (Wards 8, 9)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Gord Butler (X)**
**5301**
**69.88%**
John Chiarelli
2285
30.12%
Zone 7 (Wards 7, 15)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Betty-Ann Kealey (X)**
**2684**
**56.07%**
Chris Wong
1169
24.42%
Charles Yellen
934
19.51%
Zone 8 (Wards 10, 18)
Candidate
Votes
%
Mark D. Mullan (X)
ACCLAIMED
Zone 9 (Wards 16, 17)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Kathy Ablett (X)**
**3213**
**66.41%**
Patrycja Anweiler
583
12.05%
Su Choi Broussard
1042
21.54%
Zone 10 (Wards 12, 13, 14)
Candidate
Votes
%
Thérèse Maloney Cousineau (X)
ACCLAIMED
Conseil des écoles catholiques de langue française du Centre-Est Trustees
Zone 4 (Wards 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 23)
Candidate
Votes
%
Marie Biron (X)
ACCLAIMED
Zone 5 (Wards 3, 9, 15, 16, 21, 22)
Candidate
Votes
%
Jacques Duplain
879
31.92%
**Andrée Newell**
**1147**
**41.65%**
Denis Vermeirre
728
26.43%
Zone 6 (Wards 12, 14, 17)
Candidate
Votes
%
Diane Doré (X)
ACCLAIMED
Zone 7 (Ward 2)
Candidate
Votes
%
Monique Briand (X)
ACCLAIMED
Zone 8 (Ward 19)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Dan Boudria**
**1327**
**38.82%**
Lise Cloutier (X)
1195
34.96%
Benoît Chiquette
896
26.21%
Zone 9 (Ward 1)
Candidate
Votes
%
Madelaine Chevalier (X)
ACCLAIMED
Zone 10 (Wards 10, 18, 20)
Candidate
Votes
%
Patrick Boucher
1030
32.29%
**Robert Tremblay (X)**
**2160**
**67.71%**
Zone 11 (Wards 11, 13)
Candidate
Votes
%
Brian Beauchamp (X)
2159
38.82%
Donna Martin
983
17.67%
**Denis Poirier**
**2420**
**43.51%**
Conseil des écoles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario Trustees
Zone 6 (Wards 10, 19, 20)
Candidate
Votes
%
Georges Orfali
ACCLAIMED
Zone 7 (Ward 1)
Candidate
Votes
%
Pierre Maheu (X)
ACCLAIMED
Zone 8 (Wards 2, 11)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Chantal Lecours (X)**
**1313**
**65.52%**
Fayek Tabet
85
4.24%
Pierre Tessier
606
30.24%
Zone 9 (Wards 13, 18)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Marielle Godbout (X)**
1236
85.71%
Dorcase Saintil
206
14.29%
Zone 10 (Ward 12)
Candidate
Votes
%
**Denis Chartrand**
**943**
**58.57%**
Abdi Aden Chil (X)
313
19.44%
Osman Daher
83
5.16%
Alexandra Samson
271
16.83%
Zone 11 (Wards 14-17)
Candidate
Votes
%
Jean-Paul Lafond (X)
ACCLAIMED
Zone 12 (Wards 3-9, 21-23)
Candidate
Votes
%
Bernard Bareilhe (X)
ACCLAIMED
Candidates for mayor
Registered candidates
Piotr Anweiler: Local businessman. President of AplusB Software Corporation.
Bob Chiarelli: Incumbent mayor, has been mayor of Ottawa since 2001, and was regional chair of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton prior. He is also a former Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament.
Robert Larter: Unknown candidate. The Ottawa Citizen reported his registered phone number was traceable to an apartment in Vanier, from where he moved away during the summer. The Citizen was unable to contact him.
Alex Munter: Former city councillor in Kanata (1991–1994), regional councillor (1994–2000) and former Ottawa city councillor (2000–2003). Ran for the Ontario New Democratic Party in Carleton in the 1990 election. Openly gay, Munter was also the co-ordinator for Canadians for Equal Marriage.
Larry O'Brien: Chairman and former CEO of Calian Technologies Ltd., an Ottawa-based company that sells technology services to industry and government.
Barkley Pollock: Twenty-seven-year-old wants to look at the possibility of a municipal income tax to increase money for the poor. Campaigned for Liberal Richard Mahoney in Ottawa Centre in the 2004 and 2006 federal elections.
Jane Scharf: Local poverty activist. She has been arrested more than once including an arrest during the Homeless Action Strike on City Hall. All charges were dropped.
Dropped out
Don Rivington: A single-issue candidate who wants an ombudsman for the city. Ran for city council in the 2003 election in Bay Ward but lost. Dropped out of the Orléans Ward by-election in 2006.
Terry Kilrea: Placed second in the 2003 election. Kilrea is generally regarded as a conservative. He ran for the Conservative Party of Canada's nomination race in Ottawa South in the 2004 election but lost. Withdrew on August 30, 2006 and will endorse Chiarelli. Will run as councillor candidate in Bay Ward against Alex Cullen.
Not running
Diane Deans, city councillor. running for re-election in Gloucester-Southgate Ward
Jan Harder, city councillor. running for re-election in Barrhaven Ward
Brian McGarry, CEO of Hulse, Playfair & McGarry funeral homes.
—indicates candidate's name not included in polling question
***** indicates poll release date - actual polling date(s) unknown
^ ''indicates percentage of '''decided voters only'''''
†2 ''indicates percentage of votes for '''Piotr Anweiller, Robert Larter, Barkley Pollock and Jane Scharf'''''
† ''indicates percentage of votes for '''Piotr Anweiller, Barkley Pollock and Jane Scharf'''''
1 Source: Ottawa Sun, 30 April 2005
Endorsements
Bob Chiarelli
Jean-Jacques Blais, former MP
Marlene Catterall, former MP
Guy Cousineau, former mayor of Vanier
Clive Doucet, city councillor
Jim Durrell, former mayor
Lee Farnworth, former Nepean city councillor
Brian Ford, former police chief
Bernard Grandmaître, former mayor of Vanier
Mac Harb, Senator
Jan Harder, city councillor
Terry Kilrea, former mayoral candidate
David McGuinty, MP
Maria McRae, city councillor
Bob Monette, city councillor
Jim Watson, MPP
Ottawa Sun
Ottawa Citizen
Alex Munter
Norm Atkins, Senator
Mauril Bélanger, MP
Ed Broadbent, former leader of the NDP
Claudette Boyer, former MPP
Michael Cassidy, former leader of the Ontario NDP
Alex Cullen, city councillor
Marion Dewar, former mayor
Paul Dewar, MP
Peggy Feltmate, city councillor
John Godfrey, MP
Diane Holmes, city councillor
John Manley, former MP
Monia Mazigh, former NDP candidate, wife of Maher Arar
Simon Pulsifer, prolific Wikipedian
Janet Stavinga, outgoing city councillor
Pat Woodcock, professional football player
Le Droit
Ottawa Life
Larry O'Brien
Piotr Anweiler, mayoral candidate
Glenn Brooks, city councillor
Art Eggleton, former MP
Jacquelin Holzman, former mayor
Gord Hunter, city councillor
Merle Nicholds, former mayor of Kanata
Gordon O'Connor, MP
Pierre Poilievre, MP
Tim Power, Conservative Party strategist
Marianne Wilkinson, former mayor of Kanata
Jane Scharf
John Dunn, Executive Director, The Foster Care Council of Canada
Timeline
June 21, 2005 - Brian McGarry announces he will not run for mayor, as he fears the right-wing vote would be split with Terry Kilrea.
September 9, 2005 - Orléans Ward Councillor Herb Kreling resigns his seat to become Justice of the Peace. orleansonline.ca
October 7, 2005 - the Ontario Municipal Board rules in favour of the new ward boundary proposal that was being fought by mostly rural residents. ottawasun.com
January 3, 2006 - First day of nominations. Chiarelli, Kilrea and Rivington file nomination papers for mayor.
January 9, 2006 - Bob Monette is elected in the by-election to replace Herb Kreling.
February 13, 2006 - Munter declares his intention to run for mayor. cbc.ca
April 11, 2006 - City Councillor Janet Stavinga announces she will not be running for re-election. janetstavinga.com
May 2, 2006 - Pollock declares his intention to run for mayor. cfra.com
June 1, 2006 - Anweiler declares his intention to run for mayor. anweiler.ca
June 13, 2006 - Gloucester-Southgate Councillor Diane Deans declares that she will not run for mayor and instead decided to run for re-election. (Ottawa Citizen, June 14)
July 26, 2006 - High-tech businessman Larry O'Brien announces his intention to run for the mayoralty as a "centrist candidate," planning to file his nomination papers within a few weeks. cbc.ca
August 8, 2006 - O'Brien fills out nomination papers.
August 30, 2006 - Kilrea drops out of the race.
September 12, 2006 - First mayoral debate
September 13, 2006 - Councillor Shawn Little drops out of his city council race
September 14, 2006 - Election signs can legally be put up.
September 28, 2006 - Robert Larter files his nomination papers.
September 29, 2006 - Nominations close.
October 10, 2006 - John Baird, president of the federal Treasury Board, announced that the 200M$ promised from the federal government for the O-Train project would not be given until the new elected council approves the project.
October 23, 2006 - A-Channel debate.
November 13, 2006 - Election day.
8:00PM - Polls close.
8:30PM - A-Channel recognizes Larry O'Brien as the new Mayor of the City of Ottawa
8:50PM - Bob Chiarelli arrives at Larry O'Brien's campaign headquarters, and officially names Larry O'Brien as new Mayor of the City of Ottawa
Public transportation, LRT and in particular O-Train expansion controversies
Rising property taxes
Safety issues
Taxes
Ward boundary changes
Ward boundary changes
New ward boundaries
New ward boundaries were drawn for the 2006 election. Under the new plan, the size of city council will be increased by two members. The boundary commission made the following proposal that was adopted by city council:
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