Ottawa municipal election, 2003

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Ottawa mayoral election, 2003

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Nominee Bob Chiarelli Terry Kilrea
Party Independent Independent
Popular vote104,59566,634
Percentage56.53%36.02%

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Popular vote results by Ward
Mayor before election

Bob Chiarelli

Elected Mayor

Bob Chiarelli

The Ottawa municipal election of 2003 was held in Ottawa, Canada, 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.

Ottawa Federal capital city in Ontario, Canada

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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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Contents

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.

Legislative Assembly of Ontario single house of Legislature of Ontario

The Legislative Assembly of Ontario is one of two components of the Legislature of Ontario, the other being the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. The Legislative Assembly is the second largest Canadian provincial deliberative assembly by number of members after the National Assembly of Quebec. The Assembly meets at the Ontario Legislative Building at Queen's Park in the provincial capital of Toronto.

Bob Chiarelli Canadian politician

Robert Chiarelli is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who served from 1987 to 1997 and again from 2010 to 2018 who represented the ridings of Ottawa West and Ottawa West—Nepean. He was the Regional Chair of Ottawa-Carleton from 1997 to 2001 and was mayor of Ottawa from 2001 to 2006. He served in the provincial cabinets of Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne.

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.

Smoking ban public policies, including criminal laws and occupational safety and health regulations, that prohibit tobacco smoking in workplaces and other public spaces

Smoking bans, or smoke-free laws, are public policies, including criminal laws and occupational safety and health regulations, that prohibit tobacco smoking in workplaces and other public spaces. Legislation may also define smoking as more generally being the carrying or possessing of any lit tobacco product.

O-Train

The O-Train is a light rapid transit transit system in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada operated by OC Transpo. It currently has one line in operation, the diesel-powered Trillium Line, with a second line, the electrically-operated Confederation Line, under construction and set to open in early 2019.

Light rail typically an urban form of public transport using steel-tracked fixed guideways

Light rail, light rail transit (LRT), or fast tram is a form of urban rail transit using rolling stock similar to a tramway, but operating at a higher capacity, and often on an exclusive right-of-way.

Controversy

One of the prominent fringe candidates for mayor was associated with white supremacist support. Donna Upson received contributions from the Ku Klux Klan, [1] and she voiced support for racial segregation. She has also set up a Canadian branch of the National Socialist Movement. [1] [2] She finished in sixth place with 1,312 votes (0.71%).

White supremacy or white supremacism is the racist belief that white people are superior to people of other races and therefore should be dominant over them. White supremacy has roots in scientific racism, and it often relies on pseudoscientific arguments. Like most similar movements such as neo-Nazism, white supremacists typically oppose members of other races as well as Jews.

Ku Klux Klan in Canada

The Ku Klux Klan is an organization that expanded operations into Canada, based on the second Ku Klux Klan established in the United States in 1915. It operated as a fraternity, with chapters established in parts of Canada throughout the 1920s and early 1930s. The first registered provincial chapter was registered in Toronto in 1925 by two Americans and a Torontonian. The organization was most successful in Saskatchewan, where it briefly influenced political activity and whose membership included a member of Parliament.

Racial segregation separation of humans

Racial segregation is the systemic separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. It may apply to activities such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a public toilet, attending school, going to the movies, riding on a bus, or in the rental or purchase of a home or of hotel rooms. Segregation is defined by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance as "the act by which a person separates other persons on the basis of one of the enumerated grounds without an objective and reasonable justification, in conformity with the proposed definition of discrimination. As a result, the voluntary act of separating oneself from other people on the basis of one of the enumerated grounds does not constitute segregation". According to the UN Forum on Minority Issues, "The creation and development of classes and schools providing education in minority languages should not be considered impermissible segregation, if the assignment to such classes and schools is of a voluntary nature".

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.

Goulbourn Township, Ontario, was formed in 1818, roughly 20 km southwest of downtown Ottawa, with the first major settlement occurring in Richmond. Other communities in the township include Stittsville, Munster, and Ashton. Stittsville is the largest community in the township, owing in part to its proximity to Kanata and the Queensway. The township was amalgamated into the current City of Ottawa in 2001.

Rideau is an historic township in eastern Ontario, Canada. It is located in the rural parts of the City of Ottawa, in the extreme south. Its eastern boundary is the Rideau River, its namesake.

Somerset Ward Place in Ontario, Canada

Somerset is a city ward in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, 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 Catherine McKenney. 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.

Results for mayor

CandidateVote%Change
Bob Chiarelli (inc.)104,59556.53+0.21%
Terry Kilrea66,63436.02
Ike Awgu 5,3942.92
Ron Burke2,6981.46
John A. Bell2,0271.10
Donna Upson 1,3120.71
Paula Nemchin1,1910.64+0.36%
John Turmel 1,1660.63+0.36%
Total185,017100.0

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

Map of Ottawa's Wards used in this election 1. Orleans 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. Ottawawards2000-2006.PNG
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

  1. Herb Kreling 7,182 (72.89%) (+31.93%)
  2. Louise Malloy 2,671 (27.11%)

Innes Ward

  1. Rainer Bloess 5,925 (59.26%) (+7.25%)
  2. J.-F. Claude 4,073 (40.74%)

Bell-South Nepean Ward

  1. Jan Harder 11,678 (86.75%) (+25.86%)
  2. John R. Palmer 1,784 (13.25%)

Kanata Ward

  1. Peggy Feltmate 12,260 (70.58%)
  2. Richard Rutkowski 4,166 (23.98%)
  3. Donald Leafloor 561 (3.23%)
  4. Grant Johnston 384 (2.21%)

West Carleton Ward

  1. Eli El-Chantiry 2,738 (44.61%)
  2. Adele Muldoon 2,709 (44.14%)
  3. Daryl W. Craig 480 (7.82%)
  4. Jim Jenkins 210 (3.42%)

Goulbourn Ward

  1. Janet Stavinga 5,076 (64.15%) (+19.14%)
  2. Michael P. O'Rourke 2,837 (35.85%)

Bay Ward

  1. Alex Cullen 6,713 (56.74%) (+8.72%)
  2. John Blatherwick 4,477 (37.84%)
  3. Don Rivington 394 (3.33%)
  4. Didar Mohamed 248 (2.10%)

Baseline Ward

  1. Rick Chiarelli (acclaimed)

Knoxdale-Merivale Ward

  1. Gord Hunter 7,029 (84.79%) (+13.17%)
  2. Phillip Unhola 637 (7.68%)
  3. Al Speyers 624 (7.53%) (-20.85%)

Gloucester-Southgate Ward

  1. Diane Deans 6,166 (59.34%) (+10.64%)
  2. Harold G. Keenan 3,917 (37.70%)
  3. David Lamothe 308 (2.96%)

Beacon Hill-Cyrville Ward

  1. Michel Bellemare 4,613 (61.04%) (+3.17%)
  2. Frank Reid 2,812 (37.21%)
  3. Osman Abdi 132 (1.75%)

Rideau-Vanier Ward

  1. Georges Bédard 3,631 (41.52%)
  2. Bruce McConville 2,355 (26.93%)
  3. Angela Rickman 1,829 (20.91%)
  4. Giacomo Vigna 582 (6.66%)
  5. Abdillahi Omar Bouh 211 (2.41%)
  6. Natasha Duckworth 137 (1.57%)

Rideau-Rockcliffe Ward

  1. Jacques Legendre 6,070 (79.17%) (+15.29%)
  2. James Parker 934 (12.18%)
  3. Michel Binda 663 (8.65%)

Somerset Ward

  1. Diane Holmes 4,105 (61.62%)
  2. Dawn Pickering 1,195 (17.94%)
  3. David MacDonald 567 (8.51%)
  4. William A. Ostapyk 366 (5.49%)
  5. Steve Sweeney 189 (2.84%)
  6. Sotos Petrides 132 (1.98%)
  7. Bill Driver 55 (0.83%)
  8. Mike Jung 53 (0.80%)

Kitchissippi Ward

  1. Shawn Little 2,907 (27.12%) (-19.92%)
  2. Kris Klein 2,330 (21.74%)
  3. Gary Ludington 2,217 (20.68%)
  4. Linda Davis 1,540 (14.37%) (-26.07%)
  5. Daniel Stringer 1,058 (9.87%)
  6. David McConnell 625 (5.83%)
  7. Les Gangé 42 (0.39%)

River Ward

  1. Maria McRae 5,600 (63.11%)
  2. Todd Mattila-Hartman 1,654 (18.64%)
  3. Richard Smith 1,619 (18.25%)

Capital Ward

  1. Clive Doucet 5,785 (80.06%) (+9.67%)
  2. C.R.L. Erickson 1,024 (14.17%)
  3. Mike Salmon 417 (5.77%)

Alta Vista Ward

  1. Peter Hume (acclaimed)

Cumberland Ward

  1. Rob Jellett 2,957 (54.37%)
  2. Garry Lowe 1,871 (34.40%)
  3. Pierre E. Doucette 552 (10.15%)
  4. David Whissell 59 (1.08%)

Osgoode Ward

  1. Doug Thompson (acclaimed)

Rideau Ward

  1. Glenn Brooks 2,765 (62.68%) (-2.42%)
  2. Paul Paton 1,646 (37.32%)

Information on the candidates

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