title: Somerset Ward
text: # Somerset Ward
  
  Somerset (Ward 14) 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 Ariel Troster. 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. At the time it was known as just Ward 6 until 1995 when it was given the Somerset name.
  
  ## City councillors
  
  * Elisabeth Arnold (1994-2003)
  * Diane Holmes (2003-2014)
  * Catherine McKenney (2014–2022)
  * Ariel Troster (2022–present)
  
  ## Population data
  
  Languages (mother tongue):
  
  * English: 60.2%
  * French: 9.9%
  * Chinese: 7.9% (inc. Mandarin, Cantonese and Chinese)
  * Vietnamese: 1.9%
  * Arabic: 1.8%
  * Italian: 1.7%
  * Spanish: 1.6%
  
  Religion:
  
  * Roman Catholic: 36.0%
  * No religion: 27.3%
  * Anglican: 6.7%
  * United Church: 5.2%
  * Muslim: 4.7%
  * Buddhist: 3.5%
  * Presbyterian: 1.3%
  * Baptist: 1.3%
  * Jewish: 1.0%
  * Greek Orthodox: 1.0%
  
  Income:
  
  * Average household income: $51,319
  * Average income: $36,042
  
  ## Election results
  
  ### 1994 elections
  
  Arnold defeated Harris in a rematch of the 1991 election in Dalhousie Ward for city council.
  
  City council :
  
  | Candidate | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - |
  | Elisabeth Arnold | 4,529 | 50.48 |
  | Peter Harris | 4,443 | 49.52 |
  
  Regional council :
  
  | Candidate | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - |
  | Diane Holmes | 6,496 | 76.07 |
  | Dale Curwin | 1,080 | 12.64 |
  | Ross Taylor | 742 | 8.69 |
  | Bill Overall | 222 | 2.60 |
  
  ### 1997 elections
  
  City council :
  
  | Candidate | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - |
  | Elisabeth Arnold | 4,004 | 78.16 |
  | Kris Schimmel | 1,119 | 21.84 |
  
  Regional Council :
  
  | Candidate | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - |
  | Diane Holmes | Acclaimed | Acclaimed |
  
  ### 2000 Ottawa municipal election
  
  City council :
  
  | Candidate | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - |
  | Elisabeth Arnold | 6,517 | 75.77 |
  | Olivia Bradley | 2,084 | 24.2 |
  
  ### 2003 Ottawa municipal election
  
  City council :
  
  | Candidate | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - |
  | Diane Holmes | 4105 | 61.62% |
  | Dawn Pickering | 1195 | 17.94% |
  | David MacDonald | 567 | 8.51% |
  | William A. Ostapyk | 366 | 5.49% |
  | Steve Sweeney | 189 | 2.84% |
  | Sotos Petrides | 132 | 1.98% |
  | Bill Driver | 55 | 0.83% |
  | Mike Jung | 53 | 0.80% |
  
  ### 2006 Ottawa municipal election
  
  City council :
  
  | Candidate | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - |
  | Diane Holmes | 6600 | 63.07% |
  | Luc Lapointe | 1782 | 17.03% |
  | George Guirguis | 1497 | 14.31% |
  | Karen Dawe | 359 | 3.43% |
  | Idris Ben-Tahir | 226 | 2.16% |
  
  ### 2010 Ottawa municipal election
  
  Diane Holmes is running for re-election against Don Fex, a former festival production manager and manager of a local book store, Susan Miller, a former elected School Commissioner for the Western Quebec School Board 2007, and Barkley Pollock, an unsuccessful mayoral candidate from 2006 election, and past supporter of Liberal candidate Richard Mahoney.
  
  City council :
  
  | Candidate | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - |
  | Diane Holmes | 6282 | 66.51 |
  | Don Fex | 2024 | 21.43 |
  | Susan Miller | 810 | 8.58 |
  | Barkley Pollock | 329 | 3.48 |
  
  ### 2014 Ottawa municipal election
  
  Source
  
  City council :
  
  | Candidate | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - |
  | Catherine McKenney | 3,997 | 40.13 |
  | Jeff Morrison | 1,681 | 16.88 |
  | Martin Canning | 1,631 | 16.38 |
  | Conor Meade | 807 | 8.10 |
  | Edward Conway | 576 | 5.78 |
  | Thomas McVeigh | 434 | 4.36 |
  | Lili V. Weemen | 292 | 3.94 |
  | Denis Schryburt | 223 | 2.24 |
  | Sandro Provenzano | 99 | 0.99 |
  | Curtis Tom | 77 | 0.77 |
  | Silviu Riley | 43 | 0.43 |
  
  ### 2018 Ottawa municipal election
  
  | Council candidate | Vote | % |
  | - | - | - |
  | Catherine McKenney | 7,754 | 76.66 |
  | Jerry Kovacs | 1,461 | 14.44 |
  | Arthur David | 701 | 6.93 |
  | Merdod Zopyrus | 199 | 1.97 |
  
  ### 2022 Ottawa municipal election
  
  | Council candidate | Vote | % |
  | - | - | - |
  | Ariel Troster | 8,669 | 61.28 |
  | Stuart MacKay | 4,706 | 33.29 |
  | Brandon Russell | 768 | 5.43 |
  