Kanata: who represents it, and who is running

City of Ottawa — 2026 Municipal Election votes on 2026-10-26. It elects one Mayor (city-wide) and 24 Ward Councillors; school board trustees also elected (not captured). This record carries the mayor race and Ward 4 (Kanata North), Ward 23 (Kanata South) only..

Holding office5
the sitting council
On the ballot21
3 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Kanata is like — the /local page

Federal riding: Kanata — Jenna Sudds (Liberal)

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Mayor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Mark Sutcliffe ✉️ Elected Mayor → Running Independent City of Ottawa Open Data
Alex Lawson unofficial Mayor Running Independent Wikipedia
Ali Shayvard unofficial Mayor Running Independent Wikipedia
Amjad Ali Syed unofficial Mayor Running Independent Wikipedia
Bernard Couchman unofficial Mayor Running Independent Wikipedia
Geoff Nicholas unofficial Mayor Running Independent Wikipedia
Jacob Solomon unofficial Mayor Running Independent Wikipedia
Jeff Leiper unofficial Mayor Running (councillor, ward 15 (kitchissippi) — not seeking re-election there) Independent Wikipedia
Josh Rachlis f unofficial Mayor Running Independent Wikipedia
Neil Saravanamuttoo unofficial Mayor Running Independent Wikipedia
Peter Westaway unofficial Mayor Running Independent Wikipedia
Queen Divine Priya Amber Bakshi unofficial Mayor Running Independent Wikipedia
Suraj Harish unofficial Mayor Running Independent Wikipedia
Zed Chebib f unofficial Mayor Running Independent Wikipedia
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Councillor — Ward 4 (Kanata North)

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Cathy Curry ✉️ Elected Councillor → Running for Councillor — Ward 4 (Kanata North) Independent Ward 4 (Kanata North) City of Ottawa Open Data
James Murchison unofficial Councillor Running Independent Ward 4 (Kanata North) Wikipedia
Rob Millan unofficial Councillor Running Independent Ward 4 (Kanata North) Wikipedia
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Councillor — Ward 23 (Kanata South)

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Allan Hubley ✉️ Elected Councillor → Running for Councillor — Ward 23 (Kanata South) Independent Ward 23 (Kanata South) City of Ottawa Open Data
Erin Coffin unofficial Councillor Running Independent Ward 23 (Kanata South) Wikipedia
Megan Strazds-Esenbergs ig unofficial Councillor Running Independent Ward 23 (Kanata South) Wikipedia
Sam Bhalesar unofficial Councillor Running Independent Ward 23 (Kanata South) Wikipedia
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Member of Provincial Parliament

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Tyler Watt Elected Member of Provincial Parliament Liberal Nepean Provincial legislature
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Member of Parliament

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Jenna Sudds ✉️ Elected Member of Parliament Liberal Kanata House of Commons
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Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

  • Kanata is not a municipality: it is a community in the City of Ottawa (amalgamated 2001). This record carries the Ottawa mayoral race and the two wards that cover Kanata: Ward 4 Kanata North and Ward 23 Kanata South.
  • The City of Ottawa's own website blocks automated access (Imperva); rows marked unofficial come from Wikipedia's '2026 Ottawa municipal election' article (which transcribes and cites the City's nominated-candidates list) and are corroborated name-for-name by CTV News Ottawa's 'Meet the candidates' articles (mayor and each ward); they should be checked against the municipality when it can be read.
  • Nominations closed 2026-08-21; CTV News Ottawa reports 181 certified candidates city-wide (mayor, council, trustees). Two council seats were acclaimed elsewhere in the city (River, Rideau-Jock) — not in this record.
  • Websites and socials are the links CTV News Ottawa printed for each candidate (cross-checked with Wikipedia's campaign-site citations). No official @ottawa.ca emails captured (ottawa.ca unreachable). No phone numbers or addresses recorded.
  • Federal and provincial representatives are from a Represent point lookup at the community centre (unchanged from the earlier record).
  • 2026-10-10: sitting mayor and councillor rows confirmed against the City of Ottawa's official open dataset 'Elected Officials 2022-2026' (open.ottawa.ca, ArcGIS layer; Open Government Licence – City of Ottawa v2.0): Mark Sutcliffe (at large), Cathy Curry (Ward 4 (Kanata North)), Allan Hubley (Ward 23 (Kanata South)). These rows are now official (unofficial: false; old Wikipedia source kept as previousSource). Candidate rows are unchanged and stay unofficial (2026 candidate lists are not in open data). The dataset lists Matthew Luloff (Ward 1, 'Matt' in this record) and carries Ward 20 Osgoode twice: George Darouze (2022-11-15 to 2025-02-27) and Isabelle Skalski (2025-06-18 to present).
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Sources

Prepared 2026-10-09. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.