Elections were held on November 10, 1997, in the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton . This page lists the election results for Regional Chair, Regional Council, and local mayors and councils of the RMOC in 1997. The 1997 election was the last election for the regional government and the municipalities, as they were merged into the new city of Ottawa for the 2000 elections .
1997 Ottawa-Carleton Regional chair election
Results by municipality
Ottawa West MPP Bob Chiarelli defeated incumbent Peter D. Clark for the chair of the region in a close race.
Regional Chair of Ottawa-Carleton
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Results by municipality
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Chiarelli only won three of the region's 11 municipalities, but won the two largest, Ottawa and Nepean.
Municipality
Chiarelli
Clark
Turmel
Cumberland 3,372
6,149 268
Gloucester 8,729
11,874 614
Goulbourn 3,122
3,380 142
Kanata 6,076
6,683 296
Nepean 16,460 12,153
492
Osgoode 2,453
2,753 156
Ottawa 36,200 29,911
1,726
Rideau 1,998 1,868
88
Rockcliffe Park 178
228 3
Vanier 1,295
1,882 202
West Carleton 2,282
2,526 141
Published Date(s)
Firm
Clark
Chiarelli
Turmel
Undecided
Source
Nov 3
EKOS 33 24
1
42
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Map of Cumberland's wards used in this election Mayoral race
Council
Map of Gloucester's wards used in this election Mayoral race
Candidate
Vote
%
Claudette Cain (X)
19167
89.59
Scott Heffernan
1525
7.13
George Saadé 702
3.28
Council
Map of Goulbourn's wards used in this election Mayoral race
Council
Candidate
Vote
%
Ward 1
Mike Bryan
901
53.89
Linda Cronin
771
46.11
Ward 2
Louise Beggs
1411
68.53
Martha Cooper
648
31.47
Ward 3
Steven Lewis (X)
1241
83.79
Mark Labelle
240
16.21
Ward 4
Dwayne Barkley
322
26.39
Bryan Hetherington
315
25.82
Bernie McMiller
256
20.98
Paul Duplants
230
18.85
Marc Poirier
97
7.95
Mayoral race
Candidate
Vote
%
Merle Nicholds (X)10718
80.69
John Harkness
2565
19.31
Map of Kanata's wards used in this election Council
Candidate
Vote
%
Kanata North Ward
Sheila McKee (X)
1859
45.25
Naomi Ridout
1079
26.27
Bruce Gowling
647
15.75
Jim Malone
523
12.73
Katimavik/Hazeldean Ward
Richard Rutkowski
1092
35.70
Sharron Quinn
933
30.50
Andrew Ladanowski
760
24.84
Peter McNichol
274
8.96
Glen Cairn Ward
Pam Cripps (X)
1241
50.90
Doug Parsons
860
35.27
James Clute
337
13.82
Bridlewood Ward
Lance Mitchell (X)
1787
50.59
Stu Chandler
1745
49.41
Map of Nepean's wards used in this election Mayoral race
Candidate
Vote
%
Mary Pitt 15905
54.47
Doug Collins
9354
32.03
Fred Ennis
3722
12.75
Bob Higgs
221
0.76
Council
Mayoral race
Council
Four elected at large. Elected councillors indicated in bold .
Candidate
Vote
%
George Wright 3345
23.21
Dwayn Acres (X)3027
21.01
Dale Harley (X)2459
17.07
Carol Parker 2207
15.32
Walter Nibogie
1778
12.34
Marg McManus
1593
11.06
Mayoral race
Candidate
Vote
%
Jim Watson 54,148
81.56
Robert G. Gauthier
8,037
12.11
Alexander Saikaley
4,209
6.34
Mayoral race
Council
Candidate
Vote
%
Ward 1
George Pratt
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Ward 2
Don Stephenson (X)
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Ward 3
Rob Fraser (X)
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Ward 4
Bonnie Gray
421
42.87
Clare Fassett
185
18.84
Wendy Braid
171
17.41
Brenda Wold
156
15.89
Graeme Nesbitt
49
4.99
Mayoral race
Council
Four elected at large. Elected councillors indicated in bold .
Candidate
Vote
%
John Bull (X)
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Jane Dobell (X)
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Gordon Roston (X)
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James Taylor (X)
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Mayoral race
Map of Vanier's wards used in this election Council
Mayoral race
Candidate
Vote
%
Dwight Eastman (X)2624
51.43
Beth Sweetman
1891
37.06
John Reid
587
11.51
Council
Candidate
Vote
%
Ward 1
Dan MacMillan (X)
920
66.67
Marlene Gramann
460
33.33
Ward 2
Bert Reitsma (X)
1199
67.13
Barry Portt
404
22.62
David Brown
183
10.25
Ward 3
Harold Daley
683
59.81
Guido Curridor
459
40.19
Ward 4
Orville Kemp (X)
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English Language Public Board
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The Ottawa Board of Education and the Carleton Board of Education were set to merge in 1998, and would become the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board , covering all of Ottawa-Carleton. Voters selected the trustees for the new board, which had yet to be named.
Zone 1 (West Carleton, Goulbourn and Marlborough Townships)[ 3]
Vote
%
Lynn Scott
2,721
70.55
Bruce Sample
630
16.33
Len Russell
506
13.12
Zone 2 (Kanata)
Vote
%
Jim Libbey
2,386
29.36
Brian Parsons
2,268
27.91
David Gourlay
1,675
20.61
Tim Carrigan
1,268
15.60
Elat Lerner
434
5.34
Daren Givoque
96
1.18
Zone 3 (Bell-South Nepean Ward)
Vote
%
Norm MacDonald
5,832
84.62
George Eustace
1,060
15.38
Zone 4 (Nepean's Lakeshore, Knoxdale and Nepean Centre wards)
Vote
%
Alex Getty
4,810
64.90
Martin Taller
1,875
25.30
John Poirier
726
9.80
Zone 5 (Ottawa's Britannia-Richmond and Carleton wards)
Vote
%
Patty Anne Hill
4,302
50.62
Chris Jekel
3,185
37.48
Brian Loader
1,011
11.90
Zone 7 (Osgoode and North Gower Townships, and Gloucester's Blackburn Hamlet and Gloucester South wards)
Vote
%
Pam Morse
2,054
59.84
Ronald Daniel Britten
536
18.23
Robert Dotten
351
11.93
Zone 8 (Cumberland and Gloucester's Orléans North and Orléans South wards)
Vote
%
Sheryl MacDonald
2,737
39.96
Judy Lian
1,958
28.59
Bruce Tudin
956
13.96
Bryan Bourque
687
10.03
Amyn Keshavjee
511
7.46
Zone 10 (Ottawa's Kitchissippi and Somerset wards)
Vote
%
Albert Chambers
6,457
83.03
Anthony Galveias
1,320
16.97
Zone 11 (Ottawa's River Ward and Nepean's Merivale Ward)
Vote
%
Andrew Lam
3,771
49.32
William Taylor
1,266
16.56
Susan Miller
1,175
15.37
Steven Jones
397
5.19
Zone 12 (Ottawa's Rideau Ward , Rockcliffe Park, Vanier and Beacon Hill-Cyrville Ward)
Vote
%
Cynthia Bled
2,842
51.61
Maret Swayze
2,665
48.39
^ Ottawa Citizen , November 3, 1997, pg A1, "Clark leads Chiarelli in tight race"^ a b c Official Results, City of Ottawa Archives
^ "English Public" . Ottawa Citizen . November 4, 1997. p. F6. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
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