1969 Ottawa municipal election

The city of Ottawa, Canada held municipal elections on December 1, 1969.

Controller Kenneth Fogarty is easily elected as mayor. This would be the last election where two aldermen would be elected from each ward.

Mayor of Ottawa

Candidate	Votes	%
Ken H. Fogarty	57,890	81.26
John Kroeker	5,182	7.27
Joseph Louis Paradis	3,781	5.31
David E. Porter	2,304	3.98
Lucien A. Dube	2,083	2.92

Ottawa Board of Control

(4 elected)

Candidate	Votes	%
Claude Bennett	47,739*
Pierre Benoit	43,237*
Lorry Greenberg	37,926*
Ernie Jones (X)	29,831*
Murray Heit (X)	29,288
Ellen Webber (X)	18,097
Roy Donaldson	13,325

City council

Map of Ottawa's Wards used in this election
1. Alta Vista Ward
2. By Ward
3. Capital Ward
4. Carleton Ward
5. Dalhousie Ward
6. Elmdale-Victoria Ward
7. Gloucester Ward
8. Queensboro Ward
9. Rideau Ward
10. St. George's Ward
11. Wellington Ward .

(2 elected from each ward)

Alta Vista Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
Don Kay (X)	6,979*
Jeff King	6,476*
Gwendeline Power-Binns	2,250
Ross Potter	1,982

Gloucester Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
Joe Quinn (X)	2,780*
Pat Doherty	1,643*
Bill Zlepnig	1,506
Ralph Boone	1,096
Leo Gallien	857

Rideau Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
Desmond Bender (X)	1,976*
Tom McDougall	1,950*
Colin Matheson	1,644
Pierre Belanger	1,143
Tom Farrell	1,003
Dorothea O'Brien	697

Capital Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
Charlotte Whitton (X)	4,254*	35.57
Garry Guzzo	2,620*	21.90
Dave Gourlie	2,013	16.83
E. J. Henry	1,511	12.63
George Hynna	1,159	9.69
Leo Morency	404	3.38

Carleton Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
Bill Law	6,343*
Ralph Sutherland	5,520*
Ed Mulkins	2,835
Philip Coulter	2,515
Charles Strong	1,870
Alfred Lapointe	1,168

Queensboro Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
Kenneth Workman (X)	4,366*	39.01
H. O. Waddell (X)	3,737*	33.39
Evelyn Gigantes	1,346	12.03
Edward Ayoub	1,011	9.03
M. J. Besharah	733	6.55

Dalhousie Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
Gale Kerwin	1,994*
Rudy Capogreco (X)	1,737*
Angelo Licari	1,719
Frank Chiarelli	1,454
Gerry Tremblay	1,130

Elmdale-Victoria Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
Roland Wall (X)	3,650*
Walter Ryan	2,403*
Bruce Harvey (X)	2,376
Keith Hearn	1,573
James Nichol	601
George Ayoub	335
Ferdinand Clement	335

By Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
Jules Morin (X)	3,531*
Ralph Brunet (X)	2,518*
Andre Grattan	1,113
James Conway	947
Hubert Mantha	476

St. George's Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
Charles St. Germain (X)	3,353*
R. A. Robert (X)	3,107*
Thomas Edwards	1,302
Raoul Levesque	1,187

Wellington Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
Michael Cassidy	2,288*
Matthew McGrath	1,566*
Jim Robinson	1,551
Mary Harrison (X)	1,302
Sam McLean	656
James Doig	475

*Results official for winning candidates only.[1]

References

"Official election returns". Ottawa Citizen. December 4, 1969. p. 3. Retrieved January 1, 2021.

Ottawa Journal, December 2, 1969

Municipal elections in Ottawa
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