Ottawa has one council seat for every 47,520 residents, more than 99% of municipalities in Ontario

Who to ask

Green: municipal. Gold: provincial. Grey: federal.

Its council answers to no county or region: Ottawa is a single-tier city.

1. 1

   Ottawa councilelected October 2022
   Mark Sutcliffe
2. 2

   Legislative Assembly of OntarioOttawa—Vanier
3. 3

   House of CommonsOttawa—Vanier—Gloucester
   Mona Fortier

Party colours are neutral on purpose: they tell parties apart and aren’t the parties’ own. MPs: Wikidata (CC0), 45th Parliament statements, read 7 November 2026; ridings: 2023 Representation Order, Statistics Canada

25 members and how they were elected

Voters pick a mayor for the whole municipality and the rest of Ottawa council ward by ward. The contest for mayor went to Mark Sutcliffe, with 51% of the votes.

Councils: Ontario 2022 Municipal Election data, MMAH (OGL-Ontario)

When Ottawa council was chosen on 24 October 2022, 44% of electors took part, above the provincial median.

How Carson Grove - Carson Meadows voted: same source as Councillors, above.

Why not 2025? Elections Canada publishes those counts under non-commercial terms, and its open data stop at the 2021 election. Voters last chose the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on 27 February 2025 and the House of Commons on 28 April 2025. 28 October 2030 is the next council election in Ottawa, fixed by the Municipal Elections Act, 1996 for the fourth Monday in October every four years.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

The riding is Ottawa—Vanier: it sends one MPP to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and Carson Grove - Carson Meadows votes in it. By law (the Representation Act, 2015), southern Ontario’s provincial ridings follow the 2013 federal boundaries, so each place is located from those.

Southern Ontario ridings: the 2013 federal boundaries (Representation Act, 2015), Statistics Canada

In Ontario, 71 of 122 ridings are held by the Liberal Party of Canada, the party Mona Fortier sits with.

The MP’s record

Roles held by Mona Fortier include President of the Treasury Board (2021–2023), Associate Minister of Finance (2019–2021) and Minister of Middle Class Prosperity (2019–2021). On today’s boundaries, the 2021 vote in Ottawa—Vanier—Gloucester would have gone to the Liberal Party of Canada with 49%, and Mona Fortier kept it for them in 2025. Mona Fortier has sat in the Commons since 2017, now for the 4th Parliament.

MPs: Wikidata (CC0), 45th Parliament statements, read 7 November 2026; ridings: 2023 Representation Order, Statistics Canada · MPs’ records: Wikidata (CC0), positions held and party memberships, read 8 November 2026

In 2021, 65% of electors cast a ballot in Ottawa—Vanier, more than the national 63%. In 2019, Mona Fortier had won the same riding with 51%. Mona Fortier (Liberal Party of Canada) took Ottawa—Vanier in 2021 with 49% of the vote, 14,759 votes ahead of Lyse-Pascale Inamuco (New Democratic Party).

Federal results: Elections Canada, 43rd and 44th general elections and the 44th’s transposition to the 2023 ridings, via open.canada.ca. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada

At 42%, property taxes count for more of the revenue than the 37% seen across the province. At $3,809 per resident, Ottawa council’s $4.2 billion of long-term debt is more than the $971 median. Spending by Ottawa council reached $4,324 a resident in 2024, well over the $3,796 median of Ontario’s single-tier municipalities. It employs the equivalent of 15,793 full-time positions, or 14.4 for each thousand people. More goes to roads and transit than to anything else: $1,219 a resident, 28% of all spending.

Money: Financial Information Return 2024, Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.

Beside its neighbours, Ottawa council is the bar in colour; the headline above has the comparison with the province.

Residents: 2021 Census; seats: the province’s council list