Osgoode Ward
Place in Ontario, Canada
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Osgoode Ward (Ward 20) is a municipal ward located in the rural southeast corner of the City of Ottawa. It mostly consists of the former Osgoode Township and parts of the former city of Gloucester and Cumberland. It has been represented on Ottawa City Council by Isabelle Skalski since her election in a by-election in June 2025.
Osgoode | |
|---|---|
Location within Ottawa | |
| Coordinates: 45°14′N 75°36′W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Ontario |
| City | Ottawa |
| Government | |
| • Councillor | Isabelle Skalski |
| Population | |
• Total | 30,185 |
| Languages (2016) | |
| • English | 81.1% |
| • French | 12.2% |
| • Italian | 1.1% |
The ward contains the communities of Greely, Osgoode, Metcalfe, Vars, Edwards, Carlsbad Springs, Kenmore, Vernon, South Gloucester, Ficko, Limebank, Johnston Corners and Piperville.
The ward was created for the 2000 municipal elections in preparation for Osgoode Township's amalgamation into the city of Ottawa. From 1994 to 2000, Osgoode Township was located in Cumberland-Osgoode Ward on the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton regional council. From 1969 to 1994 the mayor/reeve of the Township was the area's representative on regional council.
From 2000 to 2006, the ward consisted solely of the former Township of Osgoode. Beginning with the 2006 election, the boundaries changed to add much of rural southern Gloucester to the ward. And, beginning with the 2022 election, the ward expanded further to include more of rural Gloucester, plus southern and southwestern portions of the former Cumberland Township.
Regional and city councillors
- Arnold Taylor (1969–1976) as reeve of Osgoode
- Albert Bouwers (1977–1994) as reeve/mayor of Osgoode
- Robert van den Ham (1994–2000) as regional councillor for Cumberland-Osgoode Ward
- Doug Thompson (2001–2014)
- George Darouze (2014–2025)
- Isabelle Skalski (2025–present)
Election results
1969 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections
| Reeve of Osgoode[2] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Arnold Taylor | Acclaimed | |
1972 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections
| Reeve of Osgoode[3] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Arnold Taylor | 1,874 | 82.08 |
| Jacques Lemay | 409 | 17.92 |
1974 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections
| Reeve of Osgoode[4] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Arnold Taylor | Acclaimed | |
1976 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections
| Reeve of Osgoode[5] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Al Bouwers | Acclaimed | |
1978 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections
| Reeve of Osgoode | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Al Bouwers | Acclaimed | |
1980 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections
| Reeve of Osgoode | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Al Bouwers | Acclaimed | |
1982 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections
| Mayor of Osgoode | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Al Bouwers | 2,164 | 62.56 |
| Barry Dawson | 563 | 16.28 |
| Philip McEvoy | 491 | 14.19 |
| Jim Pushinksy | 241 | 6.97 |
1985 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections
| Mayor of Osgoode | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Al Bouwers | Acclaimed | |
1988 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections
| Mayor of Osgoode | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Al Bouwers | 2,548 | 51.10 |
| Ron Stanley | 1,240 | 24.87 |
| Jan van der Veen | 1,198 | 24.03 |
1991 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections
| Mayor of Osgoode | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Al Bouwers | 3,124 | 62.82 |
| Ron Stanley | 1,849 | 37.18 |
1994 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections
- As Cumberland-Osgoode Ward
| Regional council | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Robert van den Ham | Acclaimed | |
1997 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections
- As Cumberland-Osgoode ward
| Regional council | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Robert van den Ham | 4216 | 51.88 |
| John Cyr | 2939 | 36.16 |
| John Geary | 580 | 7.14 |
| Daniel Bood | 392 | 4.82 |
2000 Ottawa municipal election
| City council | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Doug Thompson | 4034 | 56.29% |
| John Cyr | 2027 | 28.28% |
| Dwayne Acres | 1106 | 15.43% |
2003 Ottawa municipal election
| City council | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Doug Thompson | ACCLAIMED | |
2006 Ottawa municipal election
| City council | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Doug Thompson | 7681 | 85.44 |
| Robert Fowler | 1309 | 14.56 |
| Ottawa mayor (ward results) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Larry O'Brien | 6,354 | 69.98 |
| Alex Munter | 1,536 | 16.92 |
| Bob Chiarelli | 1,123 | 12.37 |
| Jane Scharf | 38 | 0.42 |
| Piotr Anweiler | 10 | 0.11 |
| Barkley Pollock | 10 | 0.11 |
| Robert Larter | 9 | 0.10 |
2010 Ottawa municipal election
| City council | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Doug Thompson | 5393 | 67.26 |
| Mark Scharfe | 1873 | 23.36 |
| Bob Masaro | 752 | 9.38 |
| Ottawa mayor (ward results) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Larry O'Brien | 3,039 | 37.81 |
| Jim Watson | 2,844 | 35.39 |
| Clive Doucet | 769 | 9.57 |
| Andrew Haydon | 768 | 9.56 |
| Mike Maguire | 441 | 5.49 |
| Jane Scharf | 48 | 0.60 |
| Charlie Taylor | 27 | 0.34 |
| Robert G. Gauthier | 22 | 0.27 |
| Cesar Bello | 15 | 0.19 |
| Robin Lawrance | 11 | 0.14 |
| Samuel Wright | 11 | 0.14 |
| Sean Ryan | 9 | 0.11 |
| Joseph Furtenbacher | 8 | 0.10 |
| Daniel J. Lyrette | 6 | 0.07 |
| Julio Pita | 6 | 0.07 |
| Robert Larter | 5 | 0.06 |
| Fraser Liscumb | 4 | 0.05 |
| Idris Ben-Tahir | 2 | 0.02 |
| Vincent Libweshya | 1 | 0.01 |
| Michael St. Arnaud | 1 | 0.01 |
2014 Ottawa municipal election
| City council | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote | % | |
| George Darouze | 1,783 | 21.06 | |
| George Wright | 1,309 | 15.46 | |
| Jean Johnston-McKitterick | 1,158 | 13.68 | |
| Liam Maguire | 1,146 | 13.54 | |
| Tom Dawson | 1,097 | 12.96 | |
| Davis Jermacans | 1,064 | 12.57 | |
| Mark Scharfe | 327 | 3.86 | |
| Kim Sheldrick | 293 | 3.46 | |
| Bob Masaro | 215 | 2.54 | |
| Paul St. Jean | 45 | 0.53 | |
| Allen Scantland | 28 | 0.33 | |
| Ottawa mayor (Ward results) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote | % | |
| Jim Watson | 5,002 | 59.90 | |
| Mike Maguire | 3,016 | 36.12 | |
| Rebecca Pyrah | 90 | 1.08 | |
| Robert White | 85 | 1.02 | |
| Darren W. Wood | 78 | 0.93 | |
| Anwar Syed | 33 | 0.40 | |
| Bernard Couchman | 28 | 0.34 | |
| Michael St. Arnaud | 18 | 0.22 | |
2018 Ottawa municipal election
| City council | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote | % | |
| George Darouze | 4,653 | 54.86 | |
| Jay Tysick | 2,694 | 31.76 | |
| Mark Scharfe | 603 | 7.11 | |
| Kim Sheldrick | 504 | 5.94 | |
| Auguste Banfalvi | 28 | 0.33 | |
| Ottawa mayor (Ward results) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote | % | |
| Jim Watson (X) | 6,149 | 75.32 | |
| Clive Doucet | 1,394 | 17.07 | |
| Bruce McConville | 155 | 1.90 | |
| Craig MacAulay | 130 | 1.59 | |
| James T. Sheahan | 84 | 1.03 | |
| Joey Drouin | 64 | 0.78 | |
| Ryan Lythall | 45 | 0.55 | |
| Moises Schachtler | 37 | 0.45 | |
| Michael Pastien | 31 | 0.38 | |
| Bernard Couchman | 30 | 0.37 | |
| Ahmed Bouragba | 24 | 0.29 | |
| Hamid Alakozai | 21 | 0.26 | |
2022 Ottawa municipal election
| City council | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote | % | |
| George Darouze | 4,353 | 40.81 | |
| Doug Thompson | 4,115 | 38.58 | |
| Dan O'Brien | 1,541 | 14.45 | |
| Bob Masaro | 432 | 4.05 | |
| Bruce Anthony Faulkner | 226 | 2.12 | |
| Ottawa mayor (Ward results) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote | % | |
| Mark Sutcliffe | 7,771 | 74.69 | |
| Catherine McKenney | 1,684 | 16.18 | |
| Bob Chiarelli | 489 | 4.70 | |
| Mike Maguire | 156 | 1.50 | |
| Nour Kadri | 97 | 0.93 | |
| Graham MacDonald | 59 | 0.57 | |
| Brandon Bay | 37 | 0.36 | |
| Celine Debassige | 31 | 0.30 | |
| Param Singh | 22 | 0.21 | |
| Gregory Jreg Guevara | 19 | 0.18 | |
| Ade Olumide | 13 | 0.12 | |
| Jacob Solomon | 12 | 0.12 | |
| Bernard Couchman | 11 | 0.11 | |
| Zed Chebib | 4 | 0.04 | |
2025 by-election
There will be a by-election on June 16, 2025 to replace Darouze who had been elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario earlier in the year.
- Candidates[6]
- Doug Thompson, former city councillor for Osgoode Ward, 2022 Ottawa municipal election candidate
- Colette Lacroix-Velthuis, retired IBM executive, farmer[7]
- Dan O'Brien, 2022 Ottawa municipal election candidate. Entrepreneur, farmer.[7]
- Isabelle Skalski, president of the Greely Community Association, Privy Council Office of Canada (on 6 months leave without pay for the election)
- Jennifer Van Koughnett, project manager, community health advocate. Carlsbad Springs resident.[8]
- Bobby Gulati, mortgage agent
- Gregory Vail, project manager
- Arnold Vaughan
- Peter Scott Westaway, Independent candidate in Nepean in the 2025 Ontario general election. Nepean resident. Single issue candidate focused on the Ottawa Greenbelt[7]
- Guy Clarence Boone, engineer, originally from Newfoundland.[7]
- Dalton Holloway. Former assistant to Conservative MP Tom Kmiec.[9]
- Results
| Candidate | Popular vote | Expenditures | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | ||||||||||
| Isabelle Skalski | 2,115 | 34.01 | – | |||||||||
| Doug Thompson | 1,405 | 22.60 | -15.98 | |||||||||
| Colette Lacroix-Velthuis | 1,402 | 22.55 | – | |||||||||
| Dan O'Brien | 822 | 13.22 | -1.23 | |||||||||
| Gregory Vail | 174 | 2.80 | – | |||||||||
| Jennifer Van Koughnett | 132 | 2.12 | – | |||||||||
| Bobby Gulati | 80 | 1.29 | – | |||||||||
| Dalton Holloway | 57 | 0.92 | – | |||||||||
| Guy Clarence Boone | 17 | 0.27 | – | |||||||||
| Arnold Vaughan | 9 | 0.14 | – | |||||||||
| Peter Scott Westaway | 5 | 0.08 | – | |||||||||
| Total valid votes | 6,223 | |||||||||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes | ||||||||||||
| Turnout | 24.17 | -21.99 | ||||||||||
| Eligible voters | 25,742 | |||||||||||
| Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.) and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates. | ||||||||||||
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