Catherine McKenney

For the former MP for Ottawa Centre, see Catherine McKenna.

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2025 Ontario general election: Ottawa Centre

Catherine McKenney MPP
McKenney in 2022
Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Ottawa Centre
Incumbent
Assumed office February 27, 2025
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Catherine McKenney	32,483	55.70	+1.36	$130,575
	Liberal	Thomas Simpson	13,591	23.30	+0.72	$84,596
	Progressive Conservative	Scott Healey	9,573	16.41	+0.68	$13,986
	Green	Simon Beckett	1,550	2.66	–2.21	$13,220
	New Blue	Maria Desouza	468	0.80	–0.63	$7,244
	Ontario Party	Shannon Boschy	321	0.55	N/A	$3,402
	Communist	Cashton Perry	232	0.40	+0.13	$0
	Independent	Josh Rachlis	102	0.17	N/A	$0
Total valid votes/expense limit			58,320	99.53	+0.01	$192,174
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			277	0.47	–0.01
Turnout			58,597	49.09	-1.65
Eligible voters			119,363
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+0.32
Source(s) "VOTE TOTALS FROM OFFICIAL TABULATION" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2025-03-02.

2022 Ottawa municipal election

Main article: 2022 Ottawa municipal election

2022 Ottawa municipal election: Mayor

Candidate		Popular vote			Expenditures
		Votes	%	±%
	Mark Sutcliffe	161,679	51.37	–	$537,834.79
	Catherine McKenney	119,241	37.88	–	$542,847.97
	Bob Chiarelli	15,998	5.08	–	$96,844.84
	Nour Kadri	7,496	2.38	–	$71,062.45
	Mike Maguire	2,775	0.88	–	$5,500.00
	Graham MacDonald	1,629	0.52	–	$5,334.50
	Brandon Bay	1,512	0.48	–	$9,478.02
	Param Singh	1,176	0.37	–	$13,650.40
	Celine Debassige	867	0.28	–	none listed
	Ade Olumide	636	0.20	–	$1,966.25
	Gregory Jreg Guevara	584	0.19	–	$2,349.61
	Bernard Couchman	471	0.15	-0.21	none listed
	Jacob Solomon	432	0.14	–	none listed
	Zed Chebib	264	0.08	–	none listed
Total valid votes		314,760	99.53
Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes		1,500	0.47	-0.92
Turnout		316,260	43.79	+1.24
Eligible voters		722,227
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.) and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
Sources: City of Ottawa [20] [21]

2018 Ottawa municipal election

Main article: 2018 Ottawa municipal election

Somerset Ward (Ward 14) [22]
Candidate	Votes	%
Catherine McKenney	7,754	76.66%
Jerry Kovacs	1,461	14.44%
Arthur David	701	6.93%
Merdod Zopyrus	199	1.97%

2014 Ottawa municipal election

Main article: 2014 Ottawa municipal election

Somerset Ward (Ward 14) [23]
Candidate	Votes	%
Catherine McKenney	3,997	40.13%
Jeff Morrison	1,681	16.88%
Martin Canning	1,631	16.38%
Conor Meade	807	8.10%
Edward Conway	576	5.78%
Thomas McVeigh	434	4.36%
Lili V. Weemen	292	3.94%
Denis Schryburt	223	2.24%
Sandro Provenzano	99	0.99%
Curtis Tom	77	0.77%
Silviu Riley	43	0.43%

References

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2. @CatharineV (3 June 2020). "Happy birthday to my person @cmckenney" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
3. "Catherine McKenney, Catherine McKenna and Ottawa's struggle to tell them apart". Macleans.ca. 12 April 2018.
4. "Catherine McKenney is trying not to think about making history". CBC Ottawa. October 13, 2022.
5. "Why Catherine McKenney keeps showing up: the making of Ottawa's progressive mayoral candidate". Ottawa Citizen . October 19, 2022.
6. "Catherine McKenney wins Ottawa Centre". CBC. February 27, 2025. Archived from the original on February 28, 2025. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
7. "Ontario NDP announce former city councillor Catherine McKenney as Ottawa-Centre candidate". CityNews . November 24, 2024.
8. "Annual Report 2015-2016" (PDF). The Alumni Association of the University of Ottawa. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-01-02. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
9. "Catherine McKenney to run for Somerset Ward". Xtra Ottawa . April 22, 2014.
10. "Ottawa votes: Somerset candidates answer our questions". Ottawa Citizen . September 25, 2014.
11. "Ottawa police board chair ousted in dramatic city council meeting". Ottawa. 2022-02-16. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
12. "'What is the plan?': Ottawa councillor joins meeting from downtown street crowded with protesters". CBC News. February 16, 2022.
13. Pritchard, Trevor (2021-12-10). "The first 3 candidates aiming to replace Jim Watson as Ottawa's mayor". CBC News . Archived from the original on 2022-10-24.
14. "Catherine McKenney seeking Ontario NDP nomination in Ottawa Centre". CBC. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
15. "Where are they now? Fourteen public figures a year after the convoy protest". ottawacitizen. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
16. "Ontario election results: Look up the results in your riding". CTV. Retrieved 2025-02-27.
17. "Catherine McKenney wins Ottawa Centre in provincial election". Centretown BUZZ. Retrieved 2025-03-22.
18. "Ottawa elects first openly queer woman to city council". Xtra Ottawa . October 28, 2014. Archived from the original on October 30, 2014.
19. "Councillor posts hateful email to 'give people pause'". CBC News. November 5, 2019.
20. "2022 Official election results". City of Ottawa. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
21. "Financial statements for the 2022 Municipal Elections". City of Ottawa. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
22. "2018 Election Results". City of Ottawa . Retrieved 2019-05-27.
23. "2014 Election Results". City of Ottawa . Retrieved 2018-09-19.

External links

• Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2023-01-26)