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.

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 OsgoodeCandidateVotes%Arnold Taylor Acclaimed

1972 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections Reeve of OsgoodeCandidateVotes%Arnold Taylor 1,874 82.08Jacques Lemay 409 17.92

1974 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections Reeve of OsgoodeCandidateVotes%Arnold Taylor Acclaimed

1976 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections Reeve of OsgoodeCandidateVotes%Al Bouwers Acclaimed

1978 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections Reeve of OsgoodeCandidateVotes%Al Bouwers Acclaimed

1980 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections Reeve of OsgoodeCandidateVotes%Al Bouwers Acclaimed

1982 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections Mayor of OsgoodeCandidateVotes%Al Bouwers 2,164 62.56Barry Dawson 563 16.28Philip McEvoy 491 14.19Jim Pushinksy 241 6.97

1985 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections Mayor of OsgoodeCandidateVotes%Al Bouwers Acclaimed

1988 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections Mayor of OsgoodeCandidateVotes%Al Bouwers 2,548 51.10Ron Stanley 1,240 24.87Jan van der Veen 1,198 24.03

1991 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections Mayor of OsgoodeCandidateVotes%Al Bouwers 3,124 62.82Ron Stanley 1,849 37.18

1994 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections

As Cumberland-Osgoode Ward Regional councilCandidateVotes%Robert van den Ham Acclaimed

1997 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections

As Cumberland-Osgoode ward

Regional councilCandidateVotes%Robert van den Ham421651.88John Cyr293936.16John Geary5807.14Daniel Bood3924.82

2000 Ottawa municipal election City councilCandidateVotes%Doug Thompson403456.29%John Cyr202728.28%Dwayne Acres110615.43%

2003 Ottawa municipal election City councilCandidateVotes%Doug ThompsonACCLAIMED

2006 Ottawa municipal election

City councilCandidateVotes%Doug Thompson768185.44Robert Fowler130914.56

Ottawa mayor (ward results)CandidateVotes% 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 councilCandidateVotes%Doug Thompson539367.26Mark Scharfe187323.36Bob Masaro 7529.38

Ottawa mayor (ward results)CandidateVotes% 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 Doug Thompson, former city councillor for Osgoode Ward, 2022 Ottawa municipal election candidate Colette Lacroix-Velthuis, retired IBM executive, farmer Dan O'Brien, 2022 Ottawa municipal election candidate. Entrepreneur, farmer. 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. 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 Guy Clarence Boone, engineer, originally from Newfoundland. Dalton Holloway. Former assistant to Conservative MP Tom Kmiec.

Results

! rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate ! colspan="3"|Popular vote ! rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Expenditures |- ! Votes ! % ! ±% |- | style="background-color:#fec730;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Isabelle Skalski | style="text-align:right;" | 2,115 | style="text-align:right;" | 34.01 | style="text-align:right;" | – | style="text-align:right;" | |- | style="background-color:#020296;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Doug Thompson | style="text-align:right;" | 1,405 | style="text-align:right;" | 22.60 | style="text-align:right;" | -15.98 | style="text-align:right;" | |- | style="background-color:#1f3584;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Colette Lacroix-Velthuis | style="text-align:right;" | 1,402 | style="text-align:right;" | 22.55 | style="text-align:right;" | – | style="text-align:right;" | |- | style="background-color:#00bf63;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Dan O'Brien | style="text-align:right;" | 822 | style="text-align:right;" | 13.22 | style="text-align:right;" | -1.23 | style="text-align:right;" | |- | style="background-color:#d83f10;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Gregory Vail | style="text-align:right;" | 174 | style="text-align:right;" | 2.80 | style="text-align:right;" | – | style="text-align:right;" | |- | style="background-color:#2a3ce1;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Jennifer Van Koughnett | style="text-align:right;" | 132 | style="text-align:right;" | 2.12 | style="text-align:right;" | – | style="text-align:right;" | |- | style="background-color:#DCDCDC;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Bobby Gulati | style="text-align:right;" | 80 | style="text-align:right;" | 1.29 | style="text-align:right;" | – | style="text-align:right;" | |- | style="background-color:#8b0000;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Dalton Holloway | style="text-align:right;" | 57 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.92 | style="text-align:right;" | – | style="text-align:right;" | |- | style="background-color:#DCDCDC;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Guy Clarence Boone | style="text-align:right;" | 17 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.27 | style="text-align:right;" | – | style="text-align:right;" | |- | style="background-color:#DCDCDC;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Arnold Vaughan | style="text-align:right;" | 9 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.14 | style="text-align:right;" | – | style="text-align:right;" | |- | style="background-color:#DCDCDC;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Peter Scott Westaway | style="text-align:right;" | 5 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.08 | style="text-align:right;" | – | style="text-align:right;" | |- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total valid votes | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" | 6,223 | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" | | style="text-align:right;background-color:#c2c2c2;" colspan="2" | |- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" | | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" | | style="text-align:right;background-color:#c2c2c2;" colspan="2" | |- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Turnout | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" | | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" | 24.17 | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" | -21.99 | style="text-align:right;background-color:#c2c2c2;" | |- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Eligible voters | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" | 25,742 | style="text-align:right;background-color:#c2c2c2;" colspan="3" | |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |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. |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:

References

External links Map of Osgoode Ward