Ottawa municipal election, 1925

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The city of Ottawa, Canada held municipal elections on December 7, 1925 to elect members of the 1926 Ottawa City Council.

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Ottawa City Council

The Ottawa City Council is the governing body of the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is composed of 23 city councillors and the mayor. The mayor is elected at large, while each of the councillors represent wards throughout the city. Council members are elected to four year terms with the last election being on October 22, 2018. The council meets at Ottawa City Hall in downtown Ottawa. Much of the council's work is done in the standing committees made up sub-groups of councillors. The decisions made in these committees are presented to the full council and voted upon.

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Mayor of Ottawa

Incumbent mayor John P. Balharrie is re-elected without opposition.

John Paul Balharrie was mayor of Ottawa from 1925 to 1927.

CandidateVotes%
John P. Balharrie Acclaimed

Plebiscites

There were four plebiscites put to the voters. All four would fail.

Are you in favor (sic) of reducing the present city assessment on business, incomes and improvements at the rate of ten per cent a year until fifty per cent is exempted; and if the city services require the taxes thus lapsing, the assessment be placed on all land values in the city?
OptionVotes%
No 9,868 53.48
Yes 8,583 46.52

Property owners struck down a proposal from cross town tracks.

Are you in favor (sic) of the Corporation applying to the legislature for authority to raise upon debentures and to pay over to the Canadian National Railways one-half the cost of establishing a new railway make-up yard southeast of the Rideau river and the amount necessary for track revision west of Graham's Bay at a total cost to the city not to exceed $350,000, such moneys to be paid such company on condition that it will remove its Bank and Elgin streets yards to such new location and will abandon through train movements between the canal and the western city limit?
OptionVotes%
No 4,302 55.85
Yes 3,401 44.15

Voters also struck down a proposal to lengthen council terms to two-years. All but Central and St. George Wards were against.

Two-year terms
OptionVotes%
Against 10,400 54.27
For 8,763 45.73

Property owners voted against a money debenture bylaw for $12,000 for the West End Market

West End Market
OptionVotes%
Against 4,372 57.02
For 3,296 42.98

Ottawa Board of Control

(4 elected)

CandidateVotes%
Frank H. Plant 11,676 18.03
Herbert McElroy 8,796 13.58
Arthur Ellis 8,307 12.83
Charles J. Tulley 7,784 12.02
Patrick Nolan 6,823 10.54
Omer Langlois 5,600 8.65
S. Rupert Broadfoot 4,911 7.58
Walter Cunningham 4,148 6.41
Fred Desjardins 3,359 5.19
Napoleon A. Bordeleau 3,357 5.18

Ottawa City Council

(2 elected from each ward)

Rideau Ward
CandidateVotes%
Tom Brethour 525 24.93
David Esdale 525 24.93
Robert Ingram 435 20.66
Marcil 330 15.67
McCarthy 291 13.82
By Ward
CandidateVotes%
Frank LaFortune Acclaimed
Eric Query Acclaimed
St. George Ward
CandidateVotes%
Thomas E. Dansereau Acclaimed
Hugh J. McNulty Acclaimed
Wellington Ward
CandidateVotes%
James W. McNabb 1,599 32.31
Erenest D. Lowe 1,398 28.25
Willoughby 1,193 24.11
A. Gamble 759 15.34
Capital Ward
CandidateVotes%
McGregor Easson 2,813 43.09
Harold D. McCormick 2,522 38.63
Dr. McKinnon 1,193 18.28
Dalhousie Ward
CandidateVotes%
Sam Crooks 2,290 32.51
Jim Forward 1,744 24.76
McCarthy 1,201 17.05
John Dawson 988 14.02
Marsden 677 9.61
Fitzpatrick 145 2.06
Victoria Ward
CandidateVotes%
Ernest Laroche Acclaimed
Gerald Sims Acclaimed
Ottawa Ward
CandidateVotes%
J. A. Pinard 1,290 36.75
Aristide Belanger 1,215 34.62
St. Denis 1,005 28.63
Central Ward
CandidateVotes%
William R. Low 1,775 46.09
C. Allen Snowdon 1,576 40.92
Burgess 500 12.98

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