Ottawa's 2022 municipal election by the numbers

The mainheadlines from Ottawa's 2022 municipal electionwere Mark Sutcliffe defeating Catherine McKenneyto become the city's new mayor-elect, plus a long list of new faces on city council, and a stubbornly low voter turnout.

Here are some more takeaways from Elections Ottawa's preliminary results.

Final results should be released later this week.

The mayoralrace

161,679:The number of people that voted forSutcliffe.

42,438:His margin of victory over McKenney. Percentage-wise, that's 51.4 per cent to 37.9 per cent.

4:The number of mayoral candidates who earned more than one per cent of the vote: Sutcliffe, McKenney, Bob Chiarelli and Nour Kadri. The other 10 earneda combined 3.3 per cent support.

43.8%: Voter turnout for the race, with ballots cast by 316,260 of the city's 722,227 eligible voters.

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2006: The last year the mayoral race was this close, when Larry O'Brien bested Alex Munterby 32,510 votes (47.1 per cent versus 36.3 per cent).

169,845: Jim Watson's average vote totals across the 2010, 2014 and 2018 elections.

113,059:Jim Watson's average margin of victory across those three campaigns.

Councilraces

238:The number of votes that separatedreturningOsgoode Coun. George Darouzeover former Osgoode councillor Doug Thompson, the closest race in terms of votes.

2.2%:In terms of percentages, Darouze's win of40.8 per cent to 38.6 per cent,was also the closest margin.

243: The slim margin of victory, in votes, for Clarke Kelly overSasha Duguayin West Carleton-March.

10,739:The difference in ballots cast for Theresa Kavanagh in Bay ward and the closest runner-up. She garnered 82.8 per cent of about 15,500 votes cast.

72%:The margin of victory for returning Rideau-RockcliffeCoun. Rawlson King. Hereceived more than 80 per cent of the votes in a four-person field, while second place got just over eight per cent.

WATCH | Hear from some of Monday night's winners:

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11:The number of city councillors for the nextterm that weren't in office at the end of the current term (new councillors are sworn in next month).

10: The number of rookie city councillors newRiverside South-Findlay Creek representativeSteve Desroches represented Gloucester-South Nepean from 2006 to 2014 before stepping down.

53%:Voter turnout in this electionwas highestinKitchissippi. Capital ward (51.2 per cent) was the only other ward to have more than half of its voters cast a ballot.

37.2%: The incumbent-less Rideau-Vanier race brought out the lowest voter turnout.

5:The number of wards with voter turnout under 40 per cent.