Council seats in Ottawa are spread thin, 47,520 residents each, more than in 99% of Ontario municipalities

Who to ask

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

Ottawa is a single-tier city, with no county or region over its council.

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   Ottawa councilelected October 2022
   Mark Sutcliffe
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   Legislative Assembly of OntarioGlengarry—Prescott—Russell · Orléans
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   House of CommonsPrescott—Russell—Cumberland
   Giovanna Mingarelli

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

The mayor is chosen at large; everyone else on Ottawa council answers to a ward. With 51% of the votes, Mark Sutcliffe carried the vote for mayor.

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

Ottawa council was elected on 24 October 2022 with 44% of electors voting, above the provincial middle.

How Cumberland voted: same source as Councillors, above.

Councils are elected on the fourth Monday in October every four years, says the Municipal Elections Act, 1996, so Ottawa votes next on 28 October 2030. Provincially the last general election was on 27 February 2025, for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario; federally, on 28 April 2025. Counts from April 2025 can’t appear here, since Elections Canada allows only non-commercial reuse of them.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

Which MPP in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario represents a home in Cumberland depends on the street. Southern Ontario’s ridings are the 2013 federal ones by statute, which is how this page places the town.

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

With Giovanna Mingarelli, the Liberal Party of Canada counts 71 of the 122 MPs elected in Ontario.

The MP’s record

Had the 2021 ballots been cast in today’s Prescott—Russell—Cumberland, the Liberal Party of Canada would have led with 47%; Giovanna Mingarelli held it for them in 2025. The 2025 general election sent Giovanna Mingarelli to the Commons for the first time.

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

Francis Drouin already held it after the 2019 election, won with 48%. Glengarry—Prescott—Russell elected Francis Drouin (Liberal Party of Canada) in 2021: 46% of the vote, a lead of 8,383 over Susan McArthur (Conservative Party of Canada). At 70%, more of Glengarry—Prescott—Russell voted in 2021 than Canada as a whole (63%).

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 $4,324 for every resident in 2024, Ottawa council sits above the $3,796 median of Ontario’s single-tier municipalities. Full-time staff number 15,793, about 14.4 to every thousand residents. More goes to roads and transit than to anything else: $1,219 a resident, 28% of all spending. Local taxpayers carry a bigger share than elsewhere: 42% of revenue, where the province’s returns show 37%. At $3,809 per resident, Ottawa council’s $4.2 billion of long-term debt is more than the $971 median.

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

Nearby councils are drawn here for scale; the headline already says where Ottawa council stands.

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