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title: "Sutcliffe won 20 wards as Ottawa's mayoral vote split between city centre and suburbs"
description: "Mark Sutcliffe took 44.7 per cent of the vote to Jeff Leiper's 33.9 per cent, with margins of 15 to 28 percentage points in the outer suburbs and a 36 per cent turnout that is the lowest in more than 23 years."
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last_updated: "2026-10-30T23:53:33.231Z"
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[Mark Sutcliffe](/on/ottawa-2026/candidates/mark-sutcliffe) won 20 of Ottawa's 24 wards on October 26, CBC reports, as the mayoral vote followed a clear line between the city centre and the outer suburbs and rural areas.

CBC reporter Arthur White-Crummey published a ward-by-ward map of the results on October 30. The official count gives Sutcliffe 44.7 per cent and [Jeff Leiper](/on/ottawa-2026/candidates/jeff-leiper) 33.9 per cent, a gap of about 11 percentage points. [Neil Saravanamuttoo](/on/ottawa-2026/candidates/neil-saravanamuttoo) received 11 per cent and [Alex Lawson](/on/ottawa-2026/candidates/alex-lawson) 7.6 per cent.

## Where each candidate won

Leiper won only four wards: Somerset, Kitchissippi, Rideau-Vanier and Capital, all in the city centre. In the outer suburbs, CBC reports, Sutcliffe's margins over Leiper ranged from 15 to 28 percentage points. In the rural wards at the edges of the city, the margin reached about 40 percentage points.

## How 2026 compares to 2022

In 2022, Sutcliffe won with 51.4 per cent against Catherine McKenney's 37.9 per cent, a gap of 13.5 percentage points, according to CBC. CBC also reports that Bay and River wards were under one point in 2022. Both went to Sutcliffe in 2026.

Turnout was 36 per cent, CBC reports, the lowest in more than 23 years.

## The four mayoral candidates

[Mark Sutcliffe](/on/ottawa-2026/candidates/mark-sutcliffe) was first elected mayor in 2022. [Jeff Leiper](/on/ottawa-2026/candidates/jeff-leiper) left his Kitchissippi Ward council seat to run for mayor. [Neil Saravanamuttoo](/on/ottawa-2026/candidates/neil-saravanamuttoo) and [Alex Lawson](/on/ottawa-2026/candidates/alex-lawson) also ran. The official count, which CBC cites, gives Saravanamuttoo 11 per cent and Lawson 7.6 per cent.

## What comes next

Sutcliffe and the 24 councillors elected on October 26 take office on November 15, 2026, under section 6 (1) of the Municipal Elections Act, 1996. The City Clerk will declare the official results under section 55 of the same Act. Residents can follow each ward's count and the declaration at the City of Ottawa's elections page.

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