2003 Ottawa municipal election

Election in Ontario, Canada September 2023 2003 Ottawa mayoral election Flag of Ottawa, Ontario.svg Canada presidential no 2000 Ottawa municipal election 2000 2006 Ottawa municipal election 2006 2003 11 10 125px Bob Chiarelli ff0000 104,595 56.53% Terry Kilrea 073ED1 66,634 36.02% ottawaelectionmap2003.PNG 349px Popular vote results by Ward Mayor Bob Chiarelli Bob Chiarelli ~33% The 2003 Ottawa municipal election was a municipal election that was held in Ottawa to elect the city's mayor, City Council, and school trustees for the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The vote was held on November 10, 2003. The elections were held simultaneously with most other municipalities in Ontario. The mayoral election was won by popular incumbent and former Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament Bob Chiarelli. His main competition was that of right-wing candidate Terry Kilrea. Issues The main issues of the race were a controversial Smoking ban, the expansion of the O-Train (Ottawa's light rail system), official bilingualism and the recent amalgamation. Chiarelli was in favour of the smoking ban, which had been implemented by the last city council. The ban was on smoking in all public places, which angered many bar and restaurant owners. Kilrea was against the smoking ban. He was also against putting money into expanding the O-Train, and official bilingualism in the city. Controversy One of the prominent fringe candidates for mayor was associated with white supremacist support. Donna Upson received contributions from the Ku Klux Klan,http://ottawa.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=klan20030709 Candidate for mayor supported by Klan 2003-07-09 CBC News 2008-06-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20030727214110/http://ottawa.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=klan20030709 2003-07-27 and she voiced support for racial segregation. She has also set up a Canadian branch of the National Socialist Movement.http://www.canada.com/toronto/features/municipalelections/ottmayor.html Ontario Municipal Elections 2003 Canada.com 2008-06-11 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080621150107/http://www.canada.com/toronto/features/municipalelections/ottmayor.html 2008-06-21 She finished in sixth place with 1,312 votes (0.71%). Turnout Turnout for the election was low, at 33%. The highest turnouts were in the rural areas, specifically in Goulbourn, Rideau and the highest West Carleton (45%). The lowest turnout was in Somerset Ward at 25% turnout. Results for mayor Chiarelli won all but three wards and had his most strength in the city core region. Kilrea won three wards, all in the rural south and west. Council results 300px|thumb|Map of Ottawa's Wards used in this election 1. Orléans Ward 2. Innes Ward 3. Bell-South Nepean Ward 4. Kanata Ward 5. West Carleton Ward 6. Goulbourn Ward 7. Bay Ward 8. Baseline Ward 9. Knoxdale-Merivale Ward 10. Gloucester-Southgate Ward 11. Beacon Hill-Cyrville Ward 12. Rideau-Vanier Ward 13. Rideau-Rockcliffe Ward 14. Somerset Ward 15. Kitchissippi Ward 16. River Ward 17. Capital Ward 18. Alta Vista Ward 19. Cumberland Ward 20. Osgoode Ward 21. Rideau Ward. No incumbents lost any races, and only two councillors had a decrease in the popular vote percentage from the 2000 election. Orléans Ward Herb Kreling 7,182 (72.89%) (+31.93%) Louise Malloy 2,671 (27.11%) Innes Ward Rainer Bloess 5,925 (59.26%) (+7.25%) J.-F. Claude 4,073 (40.74%) Bell-South Nepean Ward Jan Harder 11,678 (86.75%) (+25.86%) John R. Palmer 1,784 (13.25%) Kanata Ward Peggy Feltmate 12,260 (70.58%) Richard Rutkowski 4,166 (23.98%) Donald Leafloor 561 (3.23%) Grant Johnston 384 (2.21%) West Carleton Ward Eli El-Chantiry 2,738 (44.61%) Adele Muldoon 2,709 (44.14%) Daryl W. Craig 480 (7.82%) Jim Jenkins 210 (3.42%) Goulbourn Ward Janet Stavinga 5,076 (64.15%) (+19.14%) Michael P. O'Rourke 2,837 (35.85%) Bay Ward Alex Cullen 6,713 (56.74%) (+8.72%) John Blatherwick 4,477 (37.84%) Don Rivington 394 (3.33%) Didar Mohamed 248 (2.10%) Baseline Ward Rick Chiarelli (acclaimed) Knoxdale-Merivale Ward Gord Hunter 7,029 (84.79%) (+13.17%) Phillip Unhola 637 (7.68%) Al Speyers 624 (7.53%) (-20.85%) Gloucester-Southgate Ward Diane Deans 6,166 (59.34%) (+10.64%) Harold G. Keenan 3,917 (37.70%) David Lamothe 308 (2.96%) Beacon Hill-Cyrville Ward Michel Bellemare 4,613 (61.04%) (+3.17%) Frank Reid 2,812 (37.21%) Osman Abdi 132 (1.75%) Rideau-Vanier Ward Georges Bédard 3,631 (41.52%) Bruce McConville 2,355 (26.93%) Angela Rickman 1,829 (20.91%) Giacomo Vigna 582 (6.66%) Abdillahi Omar Bouh 211 (2.41%) Natasha Duckworth 137 (1.57%) Rideau-Rockcliffe Ward Jacques Legendre 6,070 (79.17%) (+15.29%) James Parker 934 (12.18%) Michel Binda 663 (8.65%) Somerset Ward Diane Holmes 4,105 (61.62%) Dawn Pickering 1,195 (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%) Kitchissippi Ward Shawn Little 2,907 (27.12%) (-19.92%) Kris Klein 2,330 (21.74%) Gary Ludington 2,217 (20.68%) Linda Davis 1,540 (14.37%) (-26.07%) Daniel Stringer 1,058 (9.87%) David McConnell 625 (5.83%) Les Gangé 42 (0.39%) River Ward Maria McRae 5,600 (63.11%) Todd Mattila-Hartman 1,654 (18.64%) Richard Smith 1,619 (18.25%) Capital Ward Clive Doucet 5,785 (80.06%) (+9.67%) C.R.L. Erickson 1,024 (14.17%) Mike Salmon 417 (5.77%) Alta Vista Ward Peter Hume (acclaimed) Cumberland Ward Rob Jellett 2,957 (54.37%) Garry Lowe 1,871 (34.40%) Pierre E. Doucette 552 (10.15%) David Whissell 59 (1.08%) Osgoode Ward Doug Thompson (acclaimed) Rideau Ward Glenn Brooks 2,765 (62.68%) (-2.42%) Paul Paton 1,646 (37.32%) School trustee races Ottawa-Carleton District School Board Trustees Zone 1CandidateVotes%Lynn Scott (X) 9,143 68.56Marco D'Angelo 4,192 31.44 Zone 2CandidateVotes%Jim Libbey (X) 7,524 65.44Mark Williams 3,974 34.56 Zone 3CandidateVotes%Norm MacDonald (X) 4,549 58.16Sean Casey 2,634 33.67David Burkitt 639 8.17 Zone 4CandidateVotes%Margaret Lange (X) 5,324 66.17George Dawson 2,722 33.83 Zone 5CandidateVotes%Alex Getty 6,009 51.90Myrna Laurenceson (X) 5,570 48.10 Zone 6CandidateVotes%Bronwyn Funiciello 4,969 53.62Russ Jackson (X) 4,298 46.38 Zone 7CandidateVotes%Greg Laws 4,146 50.80Tom Connolly 4,016 49.20 Zone 8 (Wards 1, 19)CandidateVotes%Sheryl MacDonald (X)Acclaimed Zone 9CandidateVotes%Lynn Graham (X)Acclaimed Zone 10CandidateVotes%Joan Spice (X)Acclaimed Zone 11CandidateVotes%Riley Brockington 2,274 41.22Marita Moll 1,894 34.33Patty Anne Hill 1,349 24.45 Zone 12CandidateVotes%David Moen (X)Acclaimed Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board Trustees Zone 1CandidateVotes%John Curry (X) 2,945 66.39David Burke 1,491 33.61 Zone 2CandidateVotes%Arthur J. M. Lamarche (X)Acclaimed Zone 3CandidateVotes%Des Curley (X)Acclaimed Zone 4CandidateVotes% June Flynn-Turner (X) 2,588 67.22 Angelo Filoso 1,262 32.78 Zone 5CandidateVotes% Jacqueline Legendre-McGuinty (X)Acclaimed Zone 6CandidateVotes%Gord Butler (X) 2,309 55.68John Chiarelli 1,838 44.32 Zone 7CandidateVotes%Betty-Ann Kealey (X) 2,925 76.33Joseph Paul 907 23.67 Zone 8CandidateVotes%Mark Mullan (X) 2,555 59.56Pat Bowie 1,735 40.44 Zone 9CandidateVotes%Kathy Ablett (X)Acclaimed Zone 10CandidateVotes%Thérèse Maloney Cousineau (X)Acclaimed Conseil des écoles catholiques de langue française du Centre-Est Trustees Zone 4CandidateVotes%Marie Biron (X)Acclaimed Zone 5CandidateVotes% Jocelyn BourdonAcclaimed Zone 6CandidateVotes%Diane Doré 1,862 57.77 Diane Lemieux-Trudel (X) 956 29.66 Jean-Jacques Desgranges 405 12.57 Zone 7CandidateVotes%Monique Briand (X)Acclaimed Zone 8CandidateVotes%Lise Cloutier (X)Acclaimed Zone 9CandidateVotes%Madelaine Chevalier (X)Acclaimed Zone 10CandidateVotes%Robert TremblayAcclaimed Zone 11CandidateVotes%Brian BeauchampAcclaimed Conseil des écoles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario Trustees Zone 6CandidateVotes%Louise Panneton (X) 694 84.63Jama Y. Khabar 126 15.37 Zone 7CandidateVotes%Jean-Philippe Caron (X)Acclaimed Zone 8CandidateVotes%Chantal Lecours 760 57.84Denis M. Chartrand (X) 515 39.19Mohamed Meigag 39 2.97 Zone 9CandidateVotes%Marielle Godbout (X) 669 80.41Said Hussein 163 19.59 Zone 10CandidateVotes%Susan R. Copeland (X) 743 71.65Abdurahman H. Ali 294 28.35 Zone 11CandidateVotes%Jean-Paul Lafond (X) 754 76.08 Ahmed Muse 237 23.92 Zone 12 (Wards 3-9, 21-23)CandidateVotes%Bernard Bareilhe 483 64.40Samira Mohamed Dirié 267 35.60 Information on the candidates Giacomo Vigna (Rideau-Vanier ward) is a lawyer with the Canadian Human Rights Commission. He was a candidate in the 1991 Ottawa municipal election, though he withdrew from the contest before election day."Aldermen for almost a year, Harris runs again in Dalhousie," Montreal Gazette, 18 April 1994, p. 14. In 1994, he ran for a seat on the Saint-Leonard city council in suburban Montreal and narrowly lost to incumbent Robert Zambito."Voting results: the final count," Montreal Gazette, 8 November 1994, p. 8. In the 2003 election, he focused on economic development issues and called for an expansion of the Ottawa Congress Centre.Jason Fekete, "Rivals focus on poverty, crime, planning," Ottawa Citizen, 4 November 2003, p. 7. Vigna has argued cases before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal against persons accused of online hate speech.Lisa Tallyn, "Tribunal decision involving local man won't be known for months; Harrison accused of posting web messages promoting murders," The Georgetown Independent and Free Press, 16 June 2006, p. 1; "Rights tribunal adjourns," Penticton Western News, 3 December 2006, p. 9. In 2010, he won a libel suit against right-wing pundit Ezra Levant; a judge ruled that Levant had libelled Vigna with "reckless indifference" to the truth in various blog posts.Joseph Brean, "Judge orders Ezra Levant to pay $25,000; Charged with defaming human rights lawyer," Montreal Gazette, 20 November 2010, p. 5. References External links https://archive.today/20130708062406/http://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/your-city-government/elections/2003-municipal-election 2003 Municipal Election Results el Category:Municipal elections in Ottawa Category:2003 Ontario municipal elections election, 2003