The city of Ottawa, Canada held municipal elections on December 4, 1944.
Mayor of Ottawa CandidateVotes%J. E. Stanley Lewis (X) 17,814 56.71C. E. Pickering 7,602 24.20V. Cyril Phelan 5,997 19.10
Referendums (Only property owners could vote in the referendums)
$2,000,000 for Post-War projects OptionVotes% For 5,404 61.15 Against 3,434 38.85
$500,000 for Slum clearance OptionVotes% For 5,059 57.40 Against 3,754 42.60
Ottawa Board of Control (4 elected) CandidateVotes%Grenville Goodwin (X) 18,062 G. M. Geldert (X) 17,757 Finley McRae (X) 16,739 E. A. Bourque (X) 14,746 S. Leonard Belaire 11,266 Sydney T. Checkland 3,802 Percy Bedford 2,805
Ottawa City Council (2 elected from each ward)
Rideau WardCandidateVotes%Leslie Avery (X) AcclaimedJohn Powers (X) Acclaimed
By WardCandidateVotes%Eric Query (X) 1,186 Jules Morin 733 Paul E. Tasse 528 J. M. Laframboise (X) 438 Edgar Lachine 361
St. George's WardCandidateVotes%Arthur Pinard (X) 1,612 Roy Donaldson 1,504 James W. Jefferson 1,294 P. Ambrose Nolan 628
Wellington WardCandidateVotes%Martin M. Walsh 1,866 Charles Parker (X) 1,759 Sam Chandler (X) 1,357 Christie A. McDonald 1,016
Capital WardCandidateVotes%Edward Band (X) 2,594 Joseph McCulloch (X) 2,431 Joseph A. Enstone 940
Dalhousie WardCandidateVotes%Daniel McCann (X) 2,190 Wilbert Hamilton (X) 1,577 James McAuley 848 James R. Sands 356
Elmdale WardCandidateVotes%Henry Bradley (X) 2,236 George Pingle (X) 2,164 Grant McCready 936 Ray Lefebvre 730
Victoria WardCandidateVotes%Paul Tardif (X) 1,474 Frank Ellis 629Joseph Allard 604 Charles Boone 459 Lucien Prudhomme 348Harvey Lacasse 172 Edward J. Lachance 127 Ernest Arbour 68
Ottawa WardCandidateVotes%Napoleon Bordeleau (X) 1,475 Aristide Belanger (X) 1,353 Henri Rheaume 1,267
Riverdale WardCandidateVotes%Len Coulter (X) 2,259 David McMillan (X) 1,642 George S. Sloan 1,127
Central WardCandidateVotes% J. Grant Shaw (X) 1,699 Fred Journeaux (X) 1,654 Joseph C. Thomas 929 Elmore A. Davis 657 James J. Enright 625
References
Ottawa Citizen, December 5, 1944