2000 Ottawa municipal election explained

Election Name:	2000 Ottawa mayoral election
Country:	Canada
Flag Image:	Flag of Ottawa, Ontario.svg
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1997 Ottawa municipal election
Previous Year:	1997
Next Election:	2003 Ottawa municipal election
Next Year:	2003
Election Date:	November 13, 2000
Image1:	Bob Chiarelli Crop.jpg
Color1:	ff0000
Candidate1:	Bob Chiarelli
Popular Vote1:	142,972
Percentage1:	56.32
Color2:	073ED1
Popular Vote2:	102,940
Percentage2:	40.55%
Map Size:	349px
Mayor
Before Election:	Allan Higdon (interim)
After Election:	Bob Chiarelli

The 2000 Ottawa municipal election was a municipal election that was held on November 13, 2000, in Ottawa. The elections were held for mayor of Ottawa, Ottawa City Council and a number of school trustees. These elections would mark the first for the newly amalgamated city, which added 10 former municipalities to Ottawa. At the time of the city elections, the amalgamation had not occurred yet; the official date of that happened on January 1, 2001.

Mayoral race

The race for mayor only had two major candidates, that of the Chair of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, Bob Chiarelli and the mayor of the City of Gloucester, Claudette Cain. Cain did very well in her native Gloucester, as well as in the more francophone areas like Cumberland and Vanier. Bob Chiarelli won most of the other wards, including one that was partly in Gloucester. His strongest showing was in Kanata and Kitchissippi Ward.

The election had few major issues surrounding it, with Chiarelli's main debate issue being a plan to recapitalize Hydro Ottawa to help finance infrastructure projects. Chiarelli was seen as a "solid, no-frills and experience politicians who quietly gets the job done", running an "amorphous, centrist" campaign. Cain was the underdog in the campaign and campaigned on cutting taxes and a "go-slow approach" to infrastructure in contrast to Chiarelli.^[1]

Results

City council

The city council elections were very fierce, because many wards faced incumbents against each other because of the amalgamation. In the rural areas, some mayors ran for city council.

Results:

Orléans Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
Herb Kreling	7029	40.96
John Morgan	5564	32.42
Gerry Lalonde	4569	26.62

Innes Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
	7006	52.01
Ed Campbell	3442	25.55
Luc Brisebois	1572	11.67
Marc Thibault	1451	10.77

Bell-South Nepean Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
	10640	60.89
Molly McGoldrick-Larsen	6834	39.11

West Carleton Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
	3420	50.07
David Whiteman	2559	37.47
Harold O. Daley	851	12.46

Goulbourn Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
	4528	45.01
	3401	33.80
Steven Lewis	2132	21.19

Bay Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
	7191	48.02
Doug Shouldice	6262	41.82
Jim Jones	572	3.82
Jeff Seeton	550	3.67
Geoffrey Sharpe	399	2.66

Baseline Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
	5738	59.67
Al Loney	3879	40.33

Knoxdale-Merivale Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
	7845	71.27
Al Speyers	3163	28.73

Gloucester-Southgate Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
	6724	48.62
George Barrett	4599	33.25
Bob Leedy	2274	16.44
Anoop Rangi	234	1.69

Beacon Hill-Cyrville Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
	6547	57.87
Pat Clark	4767	42.13

Rideau-Rockcliffe Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
	7269	64.07
	4077	35.93

Somerset Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
	6517	75.77
Olivia Bradley	2084	24.2

Kitchissippi Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
	5721	47.32
Linda Davis	4845	40.07
Ray Kostuch	1525	12.61

River Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
	7091	79.95
Dave Hagerman	1778	20.05

Capital Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
	6486	69.51
Jim Bickford	2845	30.49

Alta Vista Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
Peter Hume	8625	55.67
Allan Higdon	6345	40.96
Ahmed Mohamed Nor	522	3.37

Cumberland Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
Phil McNeely	3814	44.55
Robert van den Ham	1866	21.80
David Lewis	1631	19.05
Judy Poulin	1250	14.60

Osgoode Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
Doug Thompson	4034	56.29
John Cyr	2027	28.28
Dwayne Acres	1106	15.43

City council
Rideau Ward	Votes	%
Glenn Brooks	3444	65.10
James Stewart	1846	34.90

School trustee races

Ottawa-Carleton District School Board Trustees

Zone 2 (Kanata)
Candidate	Votes	%
Jim Libbey	6,789	66.04
Mark Williams	3,491	33.96

Zone 3 (Bell/South Nepean)
Candidate	Votes	%
Norm MacDonald	8,763	81.59
Gerry Taylor	1,977	18.41

Zone 4 (Bay)
Candidate	Votes	%
Margaret Lange	5,170	51.61
Patty Anne Hill	3,800	37.94
Heinz Fildebrandt	1,047	10.45

Zone 5 (Baseline/Knoxdale-Merivale)
Candidate	Votes	%
Myrna Laurenceson	9,150	54.29
Alex Getty	7,704	45.71

Zone 6 (Rideau-Rockcliffe/Alta Vista)
Candidate	Votes	%
Russ Jackson	7,523	52.36
Chris Ellis	6,844	47.64

Zone 7 (Gloucester-Southgate/Osgoode)
Candidate	Votes	%
Pam Morse	5,864	48.12
Greg Laws	5,672	46.54
Krishen Rangi	651	5.34

Zone 10 (Somerset/Kitchissippi)
Candidate	Votes	%
Joan Spice	7,205	51.08
Albert Chambers	4,561	32.33
David Allston	2,340	16.59

Zone 11 (River)
Candidate	Votes	%
Brian Gifford	6,165	87.27
Jeremy Sztuka	899	12.73

Zone 12 (Innes/Beacon Hill-Cyrville)
Candidate	Votes	%
David Moen	6,618	62.38
Maret Swayze	3,992	37.62

Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board Trustees

Zone 1 (West Carleton/Goulbourn/Rideau/Osgoode)
Candidate	Votes	%
John Curry	2,829	51.09
Cheryl Cross	2,708	48.91

Zone 2 (Kanata)
Candidate	Votes	%
Art Lamarche	2,663	68.95
Pat Gaudet-La Prairie	1,199	31.05

Zone 3 (Orleans/Cumberland)
Candidate	Votes	%
Des Curley	3,640	75.71
Walter Szyc	1,168	24.29

Zone 4 (Bell-South Nepean)
Candidate	Votes	%
June Flynn-Turner	3,384	73.25
Daniel Falcioni	1,236	26.75

Zone 5 (Beacon Hill-Cyrville/Innes)
Candidate	Votes	%
Jacqueline Legendre-McGuinty	2,620	61.36
Tim Weil	1,650	38.64

Zone 7 (Kitchissippi/Bay)
Candidate	Votes	%
Betty-Ann Kealey	2,820	58.06
Gord Butler	2,037	41.94

Zone 8 (Alta Vista/Gloucester-Southgate)
Candidate	Votes	%
Mark D. Mullan	3,026	50.14
Pat Bowie	2,420	40.10
Ernest Wheeler	589	9.76

Zone 9 (River/Capital)
Candidate	Votes	%
Kathy Ablett	2,151	46.97
Catherine Maguire-Urban	1,609	35.13
	820	17.90

Conseil des écoles catholiques de langue française du Centre-Est Trustees

Zone 4 (Bell-South Nepean/Kanata/West Carleton/Goulbourn/Rideau/Osgoode)
Candidate	Votes	%
Marie Biron	1,221	80.49
Alda Santos	296	19.41

Zone 8 (Cumberland)
Candidate	Votes	%
Lise Cloutier	1,511	57.83
J. André Côté	1,102	42.17

Zone 9 (Orleans)
Candidate	Votes	%
Madelaine Chevalier	2,582	61.68
Claude Paquette	1,604	38.32

Zone 11 (Beacond Hill-Cyrville/Rideau-Rockcliffe)
Candidate	Votes	%
Maurice Lamirande	4,662	74.28
Pierre Jury	1,614	25.72