The City of Ottawa’s list of certified candidates for the CECCE, last updated September 9, 2026, shows David Elisma in Zone 6 with a nomination filed on May 6, 2026. The City’s open data file shows no withdrawal. The other nominations in the zone are by Michel Charron (July 10, 2026), Samtou Tchamdja (August 20, 2026) and Jaycob Jacques (August 20, 2026). The City list gives him a website, a Facebook page, an Instagram account and a LinkedIn company page, all under the name Votons Elisma. The City’s 2022 results for the zone name Franklin Epape and Denis Forget and do not name him.
His campaign website calls him a candidate in sector 6 and lists the districts Rideau-Vanier, Somerset, Kitchissippi and Capitale. It gives four headings for his key issues: ending the “default” school support designation, protection against provincial centralization, competitive academic excellence, and the school as a way to success and cultural vitality. Only the first has text on the site. It says that a property’s school support designation goes by default to the English-language public board unless the owner or tenant asks for another one, and that a person who is not counted for the CECCE may lose the right to vote for its trustee on October 26, 2026. It also says that the designation moves no tax money, and gives the steps to check and change it. Those are the campaign’s statements of how the system works, and voche.me did not check them against the law.
The website says that his community work led him to instruct and lead a chapter with Black Boys Code, and then to found the Colourfully Digital Foundation and its program CTRL Clique Girls, and that 381 young people took part in 2025-2026, 281 boys with Black Boys Code and 100 girls with CTRL Clique Girls. It says that since 2023 he helps organize careers days in science, technology, engineering and mathematics with an affinity group at the Communications Security Establishment, and that the CECCE invited him to its first careers day on May 11, 2026. It also says Radio-Canada and CBC ask him to speak on education issues in Ottawa. voche.me did not find a page of those organizations that confirms these statements. Radio-Canada lists an audio segment of its programme Les malins on May 16, 2026 titled “Lettre au jeune moi : David Elisma”. The segment page has no text about the guest, so voche.me does not say it is this candidate.
On August 26, 2026 his website argued that the City’s design of the Forecourt Park, in front of the Deschâtelets building where the school École élémentaire catholique Au Cœur d’Ottawa is to move in January 2027, should account for the school’s play needs, and he wrote that a school trustee has no authority over city parks. The CECCE’s release of December 11, 2025 confirms the figures he quotes for the school: 489 student places and 39 childcare places, and $21.2 million in added funding, of which $19.3 million comes from the Ontario government and $1.9 million from the Canada-Ontario program. In his post of August 16, 2026 he said that he has spent the last six years building after-school programs and most of his life teaching and organizing activities for children and young people, and that he is running so that children have a voice at the board table.
He holds no public office on the record voche.me read. The sources read hold no complaint or allegation about him.
