# Bay Ward

Bay Ward or Ward 7 (French: Quartier Baie) is a municipal ward in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada represented on Ottawa City Council. It covers much of the western portion of the old city of Ottawa as well as some portions of what was once Nepean. The ward runs from Sherbourne and Maitland in the east to March Road in the west. The southern border is the Queensway while the northern border is the Ottawa River. The ward makes up the northern portion of the federal and provincial riding of Ottawa West—Nepean.
The ward contains a number of neighbourhoods, with quite diverse populations. Some of the neighbourhoods in the ward are Bayshore, Woodroffe North, Michele Heights, Glabar Park, Lincoln Heights, Britannia, and Crystal Beach. The westernmost part of the ward also contains a large section of the Greenbelt. Some of these neighbourhoods, especially those by the Ottawa River are quite wealthy. However, there are also many much poorer parts of the ward with many residents living in high-density apartments. The ward also contains some of Ottawa's highest concentrations of recent immigrants.
From the creation of the new city of Ottawa in 2001 to 2010 the ward was represented by former MPP Alex Cullen, who was considered to be one of the most left-wing members of city council. However, Bay Ward has voted Liberal in recent provincial elections and Conservative federally. In the 2003 and 2006 elections, Cullen faced strong challenges from conservative opponents. In the 2003 election he faced John Blatherwick, while in 2006 he fended off a challenge from high-profile former mayoral candidate Terry Kilrea. In 2010, Cullen was defeated by a Liberal, Mark Taylor.
Bay Ward was the home of former mayor Bob Chiarelli, and he won the area by large margins in both the 2000 and 2003 mayoral elections. In the 2006 mayoral election, however, the area supported Larry O'Brien and Chiarelli finished third, also behind Alex Munter. In the 2010 mayoral election, Bay Ward swung back to the centre, going for Jim Watson.
The ward is a descendant of Britannia-Richmond Ward, which included the area now in Bay Ward before Ottawa amalgamated in 2001. That ward was created in 1994 as Ward 1 when Britannia Ward merged with Richmond Ward and given the Britannia-Richmond name in 1995. The ward existed on Regional Council as Ward 7 from 1994 until the region dissolved, and was named Bay Ward in 1997. This area was part of Carleton Ward until 1972 when it became Britannia Ward. Richmond Ward was carved out of it in 1980 and existed until merging back with the original ward in 1994.
Following the 2020 Ottawa Ward boundary review, the ward will gain the neighbourhoods of McKellar Heights and McKellar Park.

## City councillors

* Marion Dewar (1973-1974), Britannia
* Sandy Boyce (1975-1976), Britannia
* Marlene Catterall (1977-1985), Britannia
* Ruth Wildgen (1986-1988), Britannia
* Jim Jones (1989-1991), Britannia
* Jill Brown (1992-1994), Britannia
* Ron Kolbus (1995-2000), Britannia-Richmond
* Alex Cullen (2001-2010), Bay
* Mark Taylor (2010–2018), Bay
* Theresa Kavanagh (2018–present), Bay

## Election results
### 1972

Britannia Ward :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Marion Dewar | 1,367 | 27.57 |
| Sandy Boyce | 862 | 17.39 |
| Brian McNally | 714 | 14.40 |
| Mike McMullen | 566 | 11.42 |
| Ken Creppin | 452 | 9.12 |
| Charles Strang | 384 | 7.75 |
| Suzanne Saunders | 199 | 4.01 |
| Richard MacDonald | 198 | 3.99 |
| Gerald Cammy | 197 | 3.97 |
| Gary Hugh | 19 | 0.38 |

### 1974

Britannia Ward :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Sandy Boyce | 2,412 | 41.18 |
| Diane Birch | 2,203 | 37.61 |
| Maurice Royer | 706 | 12.05 |
| Anthony Gray | 536 | 9.15 |

### 1976

Britannia Ward :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Marlene Catterall | 3,041 | 52.15 |
| Sandy Boyce | 2,790 | 47.85 |

### 1978

Britannia Ward :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Marlene Catterall | 5,418 | 60.08 |
| Sandy Boyce | 3,600 | 39.92 |

### 1980

Britannia Ward :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Marlene Catterall | 3,354 | 80.11 |
| Paul MacKay | 833 | 19.89 |

### 1982

Britannia Ward :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Marlene Catterall | 2,840 | 49.80 |
| Paul MacKay | 1,487 | 26.07 |
| Terry O'Neill | 1,376 | 24.13 |

### 1985

Britannia Ward :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Ruth Wildgen | 1,310 | 24.45 |
| Jim Jones | 1,263 | 23.57 |
| Greg Ross | 1,083 | 20.21 |
| Sandra Presley | 972 | 18.14 |
| Bud Downing | 350 | 6.53 |
| Kurt Orlik | 204 | 3.81 |
| Donald Holmes | 176 | 3.28 |

### 1988

Britannia Ward :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Jim Jones | 1,940 | 40.80 |
| Ruth Wildgen | 1,928 | 40.55 |
| Geoffrey Sharpe | 496 | 10.43 |
| Jenny Lee Lapointe | 391 | 8.22 |

### 1991

Britannia Ward :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Jill Brown | 1,859 | 33.13 |
| Gregory Ross | 1,558 | 27.77 |
| Geoffrey Sharpe | 831 | 14.81 |
| Jim Jones | 665 | 11.85 |
| Clarence S. Dungey | 273 | 4.87 |
| Randy McCooey | 214 | 3.81 |
| Andy Sammon | 211 | 3.76 |

### 1994

Regional council: Ward 7 :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Alex Cullen | 8,009 | 64.58 |
| Betty-Ann Kealey | 3,355 | 27.05 |
| Andy Sammon | 1,037 | 8.36 |
City council: Ward 1 :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Ron Kolbus | 4,756 | 46.13 |
| Gregory L. Ross | 4,030 | 39.09 |
| Richard Kuzell | 1523 | 14.77 |

### 1997

Regional council: Bay Ward :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Wendy Byrne | 3,199 | 29.43 |
| Peter Harris | 3,017 | 27.75 |
| Frank Dalton | 2,041 | 18.77 |
| David Morrow | 1,871 | 17.21 |
| Victoria Manson | 595 | 5.47 |
| Douglas Besharah | 148 | 1.36 |
City council: Britannia-Richmond Ward :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Ron Kolbus | 6,506 | 75.93 |
| Jim Jones | 1,639 | 19.13 |
| Alphonse Lapointe | 423 | 4.94 |

### 2000

City council :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Alex Cullen | 7,191 | 48.02 |
| Doug Shouldice | 6,262 | 41.82 |
| Jim Jones | 572 | 3.82 |
| Jeff Seeton | 550 | 3.67 |
| Geoffrey Sharpe | 399 | 2.66 |

### 2003

City council :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Alex Cullen | 6,713 | 56.74 |
| John Blatherwick | 4,477 | 37.84 |
| Don Rivington | 394 | 3.33 |
| Didar Mohamed | 248 | 2.10 |

### 2006

City council :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Alex Cullen | 8,393 | 52.69 |
| Terry Kilrea | 6,303 | 39.57 |
| Sherril Noble | 1,234 | 7.75 |

### 2010

City council :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Mark Taylor | 5,394 | 37.78 |
| Alex Cullen | 4,323 | 30.28 |
| George Guirguis | 1,789 | 12.53 |
| Terry Kilrea | 1,164 | 8.15 |
| Shawn Little | 903 | 6.32 |
| Oni Joseph | 544 | 3.81 |
| Peter Heyck | 99 | 0.69 |
| Erik Olesen | 61 | 0.43 |

### 2014

City council :
| Candidate | Vote | % |
| Mark Taylor | 5,750 | 46.75 |
| Alex Cullen | 5,276 | 42.89 |
| George Guirguis | 498 | 4.05 |
| Trevor Robinson | 482 | 3.92 |
| Michael Pastien | 151 | 1.23 |
| Brendan Mertens | 143 | 1.16 |
Ottawa mayor (Ward results) :
| Candidate | Vote | % |
| Jim Watson | 9,140 | 76.31 |
| Mike Maguire | 2,205 | 18.41 |
| Anwar Syed | 190 | 1.59 |
| Rebecca Pyrah | 141 | 1.18 |
| Robert White | 95 | 0.79 |
| Darren W. Wood | 78 | 0.65 |
| Bernard Couchman | 73 | 0.61 |
| Michael St. Arnaud | 55 | 0.46 |

### 2018

| Council candidate | Vote | % |
| Theresa Kavanagh | 6,509 | 55.17 |
| Don Dransfield | 2,104 | 17.83 |
| Erica Dath | 1,793 | 15.20 |
| Marc Lugert | 851 | 7.21 |
| Trevor Robinson | 541 | 4.59 |

### 2022

| Council candidate | Vote | % |
| Theresa Kavanagh | 12,398 | 82.79 |
| Robert Hill | 1,659 | 11.08 |
| Othman Alhusain | 919 | 6.14 |