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Jim Watson re-elected as Ottawa mayor for 2nd straight term
CBC News Posted: Oct 27, 2014 2:54 PM ET
The CBC Decision Desk projects Jim Watson will lead the City of Ottawa for a second straight term after winning the mayoral election in swift fashion Monday night.
With two thirds of polls counted, Watson had 77 per cent of total votes. His next closest competitor, Mike Maguire, had 17.9 per cent of the vote. No other candidates had more than two per cent of the total vote.
The incumbent mayor's campaign centred around the second phase of the light rail project, as well as cleaning up the sewage problem in the Ottawa River.
Maguire, who finished second after a fifth-place finish in 2010, ran on a plan for a zero-per cent tax increase. His platform also included a plan to trash the second phase of LRT.
Watson will lead a city council with at least eight new faces. His long-time friend Steve Desroches, as well as veteran colleagues Maria McRae, Peter Hume, Rainer Bloess, Diane Holmes and Doug Thompson all decided not to run for re-election.
Two sitting councillors were also defeated in the election: Kitchissippi councillor Katherine Hobbs, who CBC projects will lose to Jeff Leiper, and Rideau-Rockcliffe councillor Peter Clark, who will lose to Tobi Nussbaum.
The other new councillors joining the council include Jody Mitic in Innes Ward, Catherine McKenney in Somerset, Riley Brockington in River Ward, Jean Cloutier in Alta Vista, and Michael Qaqish in Gloucester-South Nepean. Osgoode ward will also have a new councillor, but that race has been too close to call.
Watson, known for his busy and active schedule, was also the mayor of Ottawa from 1997 to 2000 and he previously served as city councillor from 1991 to 1997.
He spent seven years in provincial politics before returning to the municipal level in 2010 when he defeated Larry O’Brien to become Ottawa’s mayor.
The official election results should be known by Thursday and the mayor and his councillors will be officially sworn in on Dec. 1.
CBC News Posted: Oct 27, 2014 2:54 PM ET
The CBC Decision Desk projects Jim Watson will lead the City of Ottawa for a second straight term after winning the mayoral election in swift fashion Monday night.
With two thirds of polls counted, Watson had 77 per cent of total votes. His next closest competitor, Mike Maguire, had 17.9 per cent of the vote. No other candidates had more than two per cent of the total vote.
The incumbent mayor's campaign centred around the second phase of the light rail project, as well as cleaning up the sewage problem in the Ottawa River.
Maguire, who finished second after a fifth-place finish in 2010, ran on a plan for a zero-per cent tax increase. His platform also included a plan to trash the second phase of LRT.
Watson will lead a city council with at least eight new faces. His long-time friend Steve Desroches, as well as veteran colleagues Maria McRae, Peter Hume, Rainer Bloess, Diane Holmes and Doug Thompson all decided not to run for re-election.
Two sitting councillors were also defeated in the election: Kitchissippi councillor Katherine Hobbs, who CBC projects will lose to Jeff Leiper, and Rideau-Rockcliffe councillor Peter Clark, who will lose to Tobi Nussbaum.
The other new councillors joining the council include Jody Mitic in Innes Ward, Catherine McKenney in Somerset, Riley Brockington in River Ward, Jean Cloutier in Alta Vista, and Michael Qaqish in Gloucester-South Nepean. Osgoode ward will also have a new councillor, but that race has been too close to call.
Watson, known for his busy and active schedule, was also the mayor of Ottawa from 1997 to 2000 and he previously served as city councillor from 1991 to 1997.
He spent seven years in provincial politics before returning to the municipal level in 2010 when he defeated Larry O’Brien to become Ottawa’s mayor.
The official election results should be known by Thursday and the mayor and his councillors will be officially sworn in on Dec. 1.
