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Desroches took 7,702 of 9,063 votes in the Oct. 26 count, and says his next priorities are a new recreation complex, the ward's first library branch and a major intersection upgrade.
Erin Coffin won Ward 23 on October 26 with 7,878 votes, removing four-term incumbent Allan Hubley in the only seat change among Ottawa's 24 wards.
Thirteen of Ottawa's 24 councillors elected on 26 October 2026 are women, the first time since the city's 2001 amalgamation that women hold a majority of council seats.
Ottawa College Ward councillor Laine Johnson was re-elected with 14,327 votes on October 26, defeating Malloum Abakar by a wide margin and naming stormwater flooding as her first priority.
Former CBC and Ottawa Citizen journalist Joanne Chianello won the open Kitchissippi Ward seat on October 26, defeating three challengers including Brian Innes, Subhir Uppal, and Xavier Commerford.
Ariel Troster took 9,061 votes in Ward 14, defeating four challengers and naming homelessness as her central focus for the next four years.