From one ballot to each voter, to 181 candidates to the $9.3 million cost to hold the election, there are a lot of numbers in Ottawa’s municipal election. CTVNewsOttawa.ca looks at the numbers in the City of Ottawa’s municipal election ahead of the Oct. 26 voting day. 2026 election One: voters will receive one ballot at the polling station to vote for mayor, councillor and school board trustee. Two: The number of councillors acclaimed in the municipal election. Riley Brockington in River Ward and David Brown in Rideau-Jock were acclaimed for a four-year term. Six: Number of days residents can cast a ballot in the municipal election. Advance Voting Days from Oct. 1 to 4, the Advance Voting Day on Oct. 16 and the Voting Day on Oct. 26. Eight: The number of school board trustees acclaimed in the municipal election. 10: Hours that voting locations will be open on Oct. 26, between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. 14: The number of candidates for mayor in the 2026 municipal election - Queen Divine Priya Amber Bakshi, Zed Chebib, Bernard Couchman, Suraj Harish, Alex Lawson, Jeff Leiper, Geoff Nicholas, Josh Rachlis, Neil Saravanamuttoo, Ali Shayvard, Jacob Solomon, Mark Sutcliffe, Amjad Ali Syed, Peter Westaway 24: The number of wards in the City of Ottawa. Voters will cast a ballot for one councillor in their ward in the municipal election. 181: The number of certified candidates on the ballot in the City of Ottawa election for mayor, councillor and school board trustee. 352: The total number of tabulators transmitting from voting locations on voting day. 639: The number of voting places across Ottawa in the 2026 municipal election. 5,497: The number of Special Ballot Voter Kits mailed to residents to vote by special mail-in ballot in the municipal election. 5,970: The number of election workers positions required to support voting in the municipal election. The city says 3,829 election workers will be deployed on Oct. 26. 27,533: Ballots cast during the four days of Special Advance Voting on Oct. 1-4 $59,827: Transition allowance for departing councillors after the 2026 municipal election who served more than one term. A councillor who served one term is eligible to receive $39,884. $119,620: The current salary for a City of Ottawa councillor. $213,921: The salary for the mayor of Ottawa. 868,248: The number of eligible voters in the 2026 City of Ottawa municipal election, as of Sept. 20. 1,500,000: The number of ballots printed in preparation for the 2026 municipal election in Ottawa $9,262,207: The estimated cost of the 2026 municipal election in the City of Ottawa. 2022 election 10: Number of winning councillors that received over 70 per cent of the vote in the ward. 11: Number of new councillors elected in the 2022 election 37.18 per cent: Lowest voter turnout in a ward in the 2022 municipal election – Rideau-Vanier. 43.8 per cent: Voter turnout in the 2022 municipal election across the City of Ottawa. 52.98 per cent: Highest voter turnout in a ward – Kitchissippi. Voter turnout in Capital ward was 51.27 per cent. 83 per cent: Highest percentage of votes in a ward 0 Theresa Kavanagh in Bay Ward. Tim Tierney received 82 per cent in Beacon Hill-Cyrville. 364: Number of votes by proxy 8,685: Number of ballots cast by mail in 2022. 18,876: Ballots cast in four days of Special Advance Voting 60,615: Ballots cast during the two Advance Voting Days in the lead up to the election 161,235: The number of votes cast for the winning mayoral candidate (Sutcliffe) in the 2022 municipal election. 316,254: The number of votes cast for mayor in the 2022 municipal election. 722,227: Eligible voters in the 2022 municipal election. $8,084,300: Total cost of the 2022 municipal election in the City of Ottawa.
