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Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe Wins Second Term in City Vote

CityNews and RogersTV declared Mark Sutcliffe re-elected as Ottawa's mayor on Monday night, with about 45 percent of the vote and more than 269 polls reporting.

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Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe Wins Second Term in City Vote

Key points

  • Mark Sutcliffe has been re-elected as mayor of Ottawa.
  • A live results page tracking the city count put Sutcliffe at 45.6 percent with 72,893 votes at one point in the evening, ahead of Jeff Leiper at 32.0 percent with 51,192 votes, Neil Saravanamuttoo…
  • Sutcliffe campaigned on a tax limit of 2.0 to 2.25 percent for the first two years of the term, a monthly transit pass lowered to 95 dollars, and recreation fees frozen for seniors and families.

Mark Sutcliffe has been re-elected as mayor of Ottawa. CityNews and RogersTV declared him the winner on Monday night, with about 45 percent of the vote and more than 269 polls reporting. The former broadcast journalist was first elected in 2022 with just over half the vote, and he renewed his mandate on October 26.

A live results page tracking the city count put Sutcliffe at 45.6 percent with 72,893 votes at one point in the evening, ahead of Jeff Leiper at 32.0 percent with 51,192 votes, Neil Saravanamuttoo at 11.0 percent and Alex Lawson at 8.5 percent. That page counted 161,235 ballots across Ottawa, with 323 of 824 tabulators reporting. All results in the count are unofficial. The City Clerk is expected to declare the 2026 results official on or before Friday, October 30.

The platform he ran on

Sutcliffe campaigned on a tax limit of 2.0 to 2.25 percent for the first two years of the term, a monthly transit pass lowered to 95 dollars, and recreation fees frozen for seniors and families. His list also included finalizing the upload of the Ottawa LRT to the province and starting Phase 3 of the LRT, hiring 350 more police officers, firefighters and paramedics, building 650 new supportive housing units in five years, and ending youth homelessness by 2030.

Why it matters

Ottawa elects its mayor and all 24 ward councillors on the same ballot, and the new council term begins on November 15, 2026. The mayor's promises now meet the city's budget process, where transit funding and the tax limit will be tested first. The Ottawa Board of Trade told a RogersTV panel that growing the city economy can help offset lower tax increases for residents.

Turnout was part of the story on Monday. Nearly 90,000 electors cast ballots early through advance polling and mail-in options, and the live count on election night put turnout at 18.6 percent of 868,248 eligible voters partway through the count.

What happens next

The City Clerk certifies the results by October 30. The new council then takes office on November 15 and begins work on the 2027 budget, where the transit pass price, the tax limit and the hiring plan become line items rather than campaign lines.

Timeline

  1. Oct 26, 2026Ottawa polls close at 8 p.m. and counting begins in the mayoral race and all 24 wards.
  2. Oct 26, 2026CityNews and RogersTV declare Mark Sutcliffe re-elected with about 45 percent of the vote.
  3. Oct 30, 2026The City Clerk is expected to declare the 2026 results official on or before this date.

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