Somerset

Ottawa City Council
Councillor	Diane Holmes
Area	5.8 sq km
Avg. income	38,202
Population	33,515 (2006)
Languages	English 63.8% French 13.1% Others 23.2%

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.

Contents 1 City councillors 2 Population data 3 Election results 3.1 Ottawa municipal election, 1994 3.2 Ottawa municipal election, 1997 3.3 Ottawa municipal election, 2000 3.4 Ottawa municipal election, 2003 3.5 Ottawa municipal election, 2006 4 External links

[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, 1994

City council
Candidate	Votes	%
Elisabeth Arnold	4529	50.48
Peter Harris (X)	4443	49.52

[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%

[edit] External links

• Map of Somerset Ward