1982 Ottawa mayoral election ← 1980 November 8, 1982 1985 →
Candidate Marion Dewar Darrel Kent Popular vote 57,167 48,461 Percentage 52.02% 44.10%
Mayor before election Marion Dewar
Elected mayor Marion Dewar
The city of Ottawa, Canada held municipal elections on November 8, 1982.
Mayor Marion Dewar was re-elected, defeating conservative alderman Darrel Kent.
Mayor Official results [ 1]
Dewar was re-elected, thanks to support from the city's urban wards, plus her home region in the suburban west and the Francophone east end of the city. She won 10 of the city's 15 wards, with her strongest support in the city's core, where she won over 60% of the vote in three wards: St. George's (63.7%), Wellington (63.2%) and Capital (61.6%). Kent was the strongest in the city's suburban south end, doing his best in his home ward of Canterbury, where he won 59% of the vote.
Candidate Votes % Marion Dewar (X) 57,168 52.02 Darrel Kent 48,461 44.10 T. Joseph McCarthy 2,060 1.87 Marc Gauvin 1,725 1.57 Arnold Guetta 487 0.44
Ottawa City Council Map of Ottawa's Wards used in this election 1. Alta Vista Ward 2. Billings Ward 3. Britannia Ward 4. By-Rideau Ward 5. Capital Ward 6. Canterbury Ward 7. Carleton Ward 8. Dalhousie Ward 9. Elmdale Ward 10. Overbrook-Forbes Ward 11. Queensboro Ward 12. Richmond Ward 13. Riverside Ward 14. St. George's Ward 15. Wellington Ward . By-Rideau Ward Candidate Votes % Marc Laviolette (X) 4,466 54.53 Pierre Labelle 3,724 45.47
Capital Ward Candidate Votes % Howard Smith (X) 3,150 43.22 Dave Hagerman 2,795 38.35 David Brasset 1,343 18.43
Canterbury Ward Candidate Votes % Michael McSweeney 3,706 44.44 Sue Snider 3,154 37.82 Sig Schmidt 1,479 17.74
Dalhousie Ward Candidate Votes % Rolf Hasenack (X) 3,285 56.66 Warren Ralph 2,513 43.34
Elmdale Ward Candidate Votes % Graham Bird (X) 4,742 81.94 Geoffrey Sharpe 1,045 18.06
Overbrook-Forbes Ward Candidate Votes % Rhéal Robert (X) 4,383 58.53 Fernande Casey 2,819 37.64 Marion Cray 287 3.83
St. George's Ward Candidate Votes % Nancy Smith (X) 4,644 77.41 Sam MacLean 826 13.77 Serge Girard 529 8.82
Six to be elected in each zone
Eastern Zone (529/530 polls) Vote Jane Dobell (X) 17,501 Russ Jackson 13,053 Ted Best (X) 12,781 Roy Bushfield 12,423 Don Francis 11,942 John Smart 10,587 Marjorie Loughrey (X) 9,701 John Samuel 8,872 David Armstrong 9,027 Michael McKenna (X) 8,540 Ken Ellis 6,069 Anne Dupuis 6,156 Anne-Marie Kolinski-Corneau 5,230 Allan Simpson 4,483 David Delisle 3,953 George Denison 3,709 Colin Simpson 2,997 Barry Lemoine 2,344 William Voller 2,283
Western Zone Vote Bill Law (X) 13,733 Robert Beatty (X) 12,769 Sandra Goldstein (X) 10,903 Bill Gowling 10,817 Kathy Yach 9,058 Alexander Cullen 8,595 Wayne Wilson (X) 7,527 John Jackson (X) 7,310 John Wright (X) 7,262 Abby Pollonetsky 7,221 Marion Lothian 6,377 Robert Grace 6,366 Harry Albright 5,381 Stephen Delaney 5,306 Barbara Mollon 4,455 Calvin Kempffer 3,041 Dale Alkerton 2,373
4 to be elected
Separate school supporters: Ottawa (937/938 polls) Vote Jacques Beauchamp (X) 18,925 Robert Belanger (X) 17,877 Dalton McGuinty, Sr. (X) 16,585 Lucien Bradet (X) 15,755 Thomas Kent 15,442 Edouard Gagnon 10,905 Ken Bruton 8,152
1 to be elected
Separate school supporters: Vanier Vote % Claudette Boyer 3,378 56.21 Alain Gougeon 2,632 43.79
References ^ 1982 Ottawa election results, Ottawa Room, Ottawa Public Library, Main Branch Ottawa Citizen, November 9, 1982 Bytown 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 Ottawa Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton