Share this Story: Ottawa Votes 2018: Election results roundup Ottawa Votes 2018: Election results roundup This video was recorded live on Oct. 22, 2018. Scrub through to the 2:00 minute mark to find the start of the livestream. Photo by Julie Oliver / Postmedia Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Jean Cloutier wins in Alta Vista. Read more here. Stephen Blais places first in Cumberland. Read more here. George Darouze comes out on top in Osgoode. Read more here. Scott Moffatt wins in Rideau-Goulbourn. Read more here. Allan Hubley prevails in Kanata South. Read more here. Jenna Sudds has won Kanata North. Read more here. Theresa Kavanagh wins Bay ward. Read more here. Jan Harder has won Barrhaven effortlessly. Read more here. Eli El-Chantiry has won West Carleton-March’s seat. Read more here. Glen Gower has won Stittsville. Read more here. Carol Anne-Meehan wins a close one against incumbent Michael Qaqish in Gloucester-South Nepean. Read more here. Mathieu Fleury is declared the winner of Rideau-Vanier. Read more here. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Tim Tierney retains his seat in Beacon Hill-Cyrville. Read more here. Diane Deans has won in Gloucester-Southgate. Read more here. Laura Dudas has prevailed in Innes ward. Read more here. Keith Egli wins in Knoxdale-Merivale. Read more here. Rick Chiarelli has won College ward. Read more here. Tobi Nussbaum has won Rideau-Rockcliffe. Read more here. Orléans was a nail-biter with Matthew Luloff eking out Catherine Kitts by a mere 264 votes. Read more here. Photo by Julie Oliver / Postmedia Photo by David Kawai / Postmedia Photo by Dexter McMillan Photo by Wayne Cuddington / Postmedia Photo by Tony Caldwell / OTTwp Photo by Darren Brown / Darren Brown 8:53 p.m.: Carol Anne-Meehan is leading a close one against Qaqish in Gloucester-South Nepean, with just several more polls to be tabulated. She’s up by only 500 votes. 8:51 p.m.: Cloutier has been declared in Alta Vista, eking out the smallest of victories over Lang-Dion, by just 200 votes. Cloutier has been declared in Alta Vista #ottnews pic.twitter.com/qkjnuqyh1L — Shaamini Yogaretnam (@shaaminiwhy) October 23, 2018 Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content 8:49 p.m.: Stephen Blais is coasting in Cumberland, up almost 10,000 votes over his two other challengers. Darouze is maintaining a moderate lead over Tysick in Osgoode — up almost 2,000 votes. Orléans ward has been pretty close for a while between Matthew Luloff and Catherine Kitts. Luloff leads with 3,608 while Kitts is catching up with 3,350. Meanwhile, Eli El-Chantiry doesn’t seem to be having a problem over in West Carleton-March with an impressive 5,099 votes. Closest behind him is Judi Varga-Toth with 2,132. 8:46 p.m.: It’s a nail-biter in Capital. Shawn Menard is up by just 500 votes over second place Chernushenko, with Christine McAllister following close behind. Alta Vista is crazy close, as well: incumbent Jean Cloutier is up by a mere 200 votes over Raylene Lang-Dion. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content So far, it seems that incumbent Diane Deans is well on her way to retaining Gloucester-Southgate with 2,384 votes — closest behind her is Robert Swaita with 1,490. Deans is bidding for her eighth term on council. Tobi Nussbaum is also putting up a good fight to hold his seat in Rideau-Rockcliffe with 3,585 votes. Peter Heyck needs a fair amount to catch up, only racking in 767 votes as of now. 8:43 p.m.: McKenney has an almost insurmountable lead over her closest competitor, Jerry Kovacs. She’s up almost 6,000 votes with 39 per cent of polls reporting. Ditto with Leiper in Kitchissippi. The incumbent is 10,000 votes up over his challenger. 8:40 p.m.: Keith Egli is keeping up his incredible lead for Knoxdale-Merivale with 3002, much ahead of James Dean who is closest behind him with 893. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Over in Barrhaven, Jan Harder doesn’t have much competition so far, leading with a 5,718 votes. Hadi Wess follows with 1,221. 8:37 p.m.: Watson is in a huge lead over Doucet, with almost 50,000 more votes. It looks like he’s going to win his third consecutive term in office. Photo by Jean Levac / Postmedia News 8:32 p.m.: In one of the more notable races, former CTV anchor Carol Anne Meehan is in first place with 1,015 votes over incumbent Michael Qaqish, who has 873 votes early on. Kanata South incumbent Allan Hubley has 3,622 early on, compared to Steve Anderson in second place, with 2,490. Incumbent Mathieu Fleury is up in Rideau-Vanier with 1,813. Closest behind him is Thierry Harris with 658 votes. Fleury beat out four challengers back in 2014, finishing with 51.5 per cent of the vote. Tim Tierney has garnered an even bigger lead in Beacon Hill-Cyrville with 4,269 votes to Schurter’s 1,023. Theresa Kavanagh is leading Bay ward with 1,919. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content 8:28 p.m.: There’s a closer race in Osgoode ward, with incumbent George Darouze enjoying a moderate 1,200-vote lead over his next closest rival, Jay Tysick. In Rideau-Goulbourn, incumbetn Scott Moffatt is facing a close race over his one and only challenger, David Brown. Moffatt is up about 1,000. College ward is looking close so far. Incumbent Rick Chiarelli is up with 2,457 votes. Emilie Coyle behind him with 2,118. 8:24 p.m.: In Cumberland, incumbent Stephen Blais has a comfortable early lead — he’s up almost 4,000 over the other two candidates running. Tim Tierney is leading Beacon Hill-Cyrville with 2,245 votes to Michael Schurter’s 460. Tim Tierney was the runaway winner in 2014, taking 82 per cent of the vote in a field of five. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Over in Knoxdale-Merivale, incumbent Keith Egli is up with 1,993.<doc-sep>Election day is here, and that means voters will be lining up at their assigned polling stations across Ottawa to cast their ballots. If you're one of them, here's what you need to know. Who can vote You must be at least 18 and a Canadian citizen. You must be a resident of Ottawa, an owner or tenant of land in Ottawa, or a spouse of an owner or tenant of land in Ottawa. Where to vote There are over 350 polling places in Ottawa, but which one you vote at depends on where you live. Find out where your polling station is by entering your address on the city's website. Your polling station is also listed on the voter notification letter you may have received in the mail. What you need to bring If you're on the voters list and received a voter notification letter, bring the letter and one piece of identification. Your ID must show your name and address, but doesn't need to have a photo. Your Ontario driver's licence or a tax statement will do. A utility bill with your name and address on it is fine, too. If you aren't on the voter list you can add your name to it by filling out a form available at all polling stations. You'll still need to bring a piece of identification to prove your name and address. A full list of acceptable pieces of identification is available here. Note that a passport is not an acceptable piece of identification because it does not indicate your address. If you are unable to prove your name and address you will have to make a statutory declaration before voting. Marking your ballot Once you've verified your identification or added your name on the voters list, an election official will hand you a ballot and a privacy sleeve. You can then proceed to a voting screen where you can review the instructions on how to mark your ballot. In federal and provincial elections ballots are marked with an X. But in municipal elections ballots are marked by filling in the oval next to your candidate of choice. In federal and provincial elections ballots are marked with an X, but voters in municipal elections must fill in the oval next to their candidates of choice. (iStock) You can vote once for mayor and once for councillor, and you may be entitled to vote for a school board trustee. If you make a mistake and need a new ballot, you may take it to an election official who will cancel the first ballot and give you a new one. You also have the right to decline or spoil your ballot. Once your ballot is marked, you will take it to an election official who will enter it into the tabulator. 2014's election turnout was just under 40 per cent. So far this election 56,861 residents have cast their ballots in advance polls. You can brush up on all the races for City Hall by checking out our Election 2018 one-stop info shop.<doc-sep>Article content A spike in internet traffic led officials to declare an “emergency” in the municipal votes in the Township of Laurentian Valley, City of Pembroke, Town of Petawawa, Town of Renfrew, and Township of Whitewater Region soon after the polls were supposed to close Monday night. Voting by internet and telephone will be extended until 8 p.m. Tuesday, the five returning officers declared, “due to the increased internet traffic throughout the province as reported by our service provider.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load. tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Internet 'emergency' extends vote in Ottawa Valley Back to video Paper ballot voting will be held again on Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at municipal offices. The returning officers declared the emergency under Sec. 53 of the Municipal Elections Act. “We are joining numerous other municipalities in the province, to ensure that our electors get the opportunity to vote,” the returning officers said in a joint statement signed by Dean Sauriol, returning officer of the Township of Laurentian Valley, Terry Lapierre of the City of Pembroke, Daniel J. Scissons of the Town of Petawawa, Kim Bulmer of the Town of Renfrew and Robert Tremblay of the Township of Whitewater Region.<doc-sep>Share this Story: Reevely: Jim Watson wins re-election but wrangling city council just got a lot tougher Reevely: Jim Watson wins re-election but wrangling city council just got a lot tougher Photo by Julie Oliver / Postmedia Article content Jim Watson has been re-elected mayor but he’ll have a much less pliant city council to work with for the next four years. Several of his allies went down. Several potential allies, running against bothersome opponents who vote against Watson more than he’d like, also lost. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Reevely: Jim Watson wins re-election but wrangling city council just got a lot tougher Back to video Watson’s brand of cheery calm has been what Ottawa wanted — what we needed — after four years of Larry O’Brien’s topsy-turvy mayoralty from 2006 to 2010. But now Lansdowne Park is renovated (the Redblacks won a Grey Cup! ), the light-rail system O’Brien left behind as a line on a map is a little late but nearly finished, Arts Court and the Ottawa Art Gallery have a shiny new home and the Innovation Centre at Bayview is open. More On This Topic Denley: New faces on Ottawa Council, but same old mayor Adam: Clive Doucet put himself on the line when it really mattered Editorial: Ottawa's new city council must translate big ideas into action The guy we hired to stop the madness and get some stuff done has gotten some stuff done. Now what? Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content The brightest thing in Watson’s platform is … a slightly higher annual tax increase, acknowledging that the mayor’s budget squeeze has been just a little too tight the last eight years. But mostly he promised more of the same centrist incrementalism that’s gotten us and him where we are. It worked, but just about anything would have. Clive Doucet, the former Capital ward councillor who provided Watson his only remotely credible citywide challenge, never got his campaign machine whirring. Doucet admitted that when he registered to run for mayor at the end of July, he wasn’t yet serious — that came later, when he realized that his supporters were serious about him and he owed them. His regional-rail idea, the biggest promise he made, comes up practically every election because it’s cheap and looks good on maps but it’s not what anybody wants: the old industrial tracks we’d re-use to extend train service to outlying towns where people don’t pay Ottawa taxes don’t otherwise go where the people or the jobs are. Doucet revealed it in his first news conference; his press aides missed that event because they had other obligations and nobody had translated any of the candidate’s transit promises into French. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Photo by Jean Levac / Postmedia News Frequently, when he was pressed for specifics — what would this promise cost? how would he get the city out of that commitment it’s already made? — Doucet said that as mayor, he’d call on experts to work out some details and he’d throw his weight around a little where necessary. There’s some wisdom in that. The mayor does have experts to call on, and a bully pulpit from which to make demands. But the idea that he’d get the plans for a new Civic hospital campus moved from Dow’s Lake to Tunney’s Pasture with a call to federal cabinet minister Catherine McKenna was batty and Doucet’s campaign had just too much of that. He drew about 22 per cent of the vote. Better than Mike Maguire, 2014’s anti-Watson candidate, but still nothing to give the incumbent a scare. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content In some alternative timeline Bruce McConville attracted meaningful support for his experience (he’s a successful garage owner in Vanier who gave ex-councillor Georges Bédard a scare at the ward level in 2006) and his campaign caught fire. In the one we actually live in he ran for mayor almost entirely on the issue of the Salvation Army’s plans for a new shelter around the corner from his business. The Salvation Army’s plans implicate our whole philosophy of providing social services to the neediest among us. It’s a profoundly important matter. But it doesn’t drive a citywide campaign and McConville didn’t really try to run one. He cracked one per cent of the vote, which was good enough for third place behind Watson and Doucet, which is about all you can say for it. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content So Watson it is, for another four-year term. With a lot fewer of his friends. Shad Qadri, Michael Qaqish and David Chernushenko all lost their seats, all to people who built their campaigns on challenging not just the incumbents, but the status quo. And not all from the same direction. In Stittsville, Glen Gower represents a younger, more suburban, less villagey demographic than Qadri and he’s a longtime community journalist and neighbourhood-association activist. In Gloucester-South Nepean, Carol Anne Meehan is more right-wing than Qaqish and founded her campaign on better transportation for suburban commuters. In Capital, Shawn Menard ran on a call to arms: “Fight for your city” was his campaign slogan, an explicit rebuke to Chernushenko’s more compromising spirit. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Under Watson, Qadri has chaired the city’s board of health, Qaqish stickhandled the city’s response to the influx of refugees from Syria after the last federal election, and Chernushenko has chaired city council’s environment committee. Chernushenko didn’t even really want that job, not wanting to be pigeonholed as purely an environmentalist after his stint as deputy leader of the federal Green Party, but he did it anyway. See where it got him: third place.<doc-sep>
Share this Story: Ottawa votes: Five storylines to monitor in Monday's municipal election Ottawa votes: Five storylines to monitor in Monday's municipal election Article content A municipal election campaign is a slog. Candidates could file their nomination papers as early as May, giving them six months to wear out sneakers while knocking on doors and attending community events. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Ottawa votes: Five storylines to monitor in Monday's municipal election Back to video Finally, Ottawa voters head to the polls on Monday to elect the 2018-2022 city council and school board trustees. With polls set to close at 8 p.m., the battle for city hall has five storylines to follow. More On This Topic Read all of our municipal election coverage Reevely: This Monday's vote is about the kind of Ottawa we want How do I vote? Here is a municipal election day primer Turnout Advance votes brought out 56,861 people, which is a good sign that residents will be interested in casting ballots on Monday. Turnout in 2014 was a dismal 39.92 per cent. In 2010, when there was a more interesting field of mayoral candidates, the turnout was 44 per cent. The mayoral race in 2018 could be considered on par with 2014, but challenger Clive Doucet might bring more people to the polls if they’re interested in a competing vision to incumbent Jim Watson. Article content Some of the ward races should be too compelling for voters to ignore. Foul weather shouldn’t affect the turnout. If the forecast holds, it will be a crisp, sunny day. The no-incumbent wards Four ward races are wide open with incumbents leaving municipal political life. Orléans, Innes, Kanata North and Bay wards will have new representatives when the next council is sworn in and the races could be close. Incumbents in those wards have mostly stayed quiet about their preferred successors, although Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson is pulling for one candidate in a heated race. The outgoing councillors were generally supporters of Mayor Jim Watson, so a reset in each ward could change council’s internal relationship. Article content The incumbents fighting for their political lives The election might not be a cakewalk for incumbent councillors in a half-dozen wards. Shad Qadri has a head-to-head fight against well-known community volunteer Glen Gower in Stittsville. In Rideau-Vanier, emotions are still raw over the Salvation Army shelter relocation to Vanier, potentially risking Mathieu Fleury’s re-election bid. Thierry Harris has been Fleury’s strongest challenger. Riley Brockington in River ward is exposed after receiving backlash from some community association members and former ward councillor Maria McRae. Fabien Kalala Cimankinda has emerged as the top challenger. David Chernushenko is feeling the heat from all four challengers in Capital ward. Article content Three strong challengers could also pull votes away from Alta Vista incumbent Jean Cloutier. And in Gloucester-South Nepean, incumbent Michael Qaqish could fall victim to vote splitting on a five-candidate ballot, giving former broadcaster Carole Anne Meehan a shot at the seat. The mayoral race Jim Watson shouldn’t have a problem keeping his corner office at city hall. However, while it wouldn’t be surprising to see Watson get a strong mandate, it will be interesting to see how much of a dent Clive Doucet puts in the incumbent’s support. Watson won re-election in 2014 with a 76 per cent share of the total vote. In 2018, Doucet will be another recognizable name on a 12-candidate for mayoral ballot. While there have been proposals during the campaign on transit, affordable housing and taxes, the mayoral election is largely about voters’ satisfaction or displeasure with the current management of city hall. What message will they send Watson? Article content The threat of a ‘lame duck’ council If residents don’t return a minimum number of council members, council will be a “lame duck” until the start of the next term. The Ontario Municipal Act says if fewer than three-quarters of the current council return in the next term of office, the current council can’t make certain decisions for the municipality. Those decisions include appointing or removing an officer of the municipality, hiring or firing employees, selling any property worth more than $50,000 or racking up any expenses worth more than $50,000. The bans don’t apply to money already budgeted to be spent or money needed for emergencies.