The city of Ottawa, Canada held municipal elections on December 3, 1956. Controller George Nelms is acclaimed as mayor, the last election in Ottawa's history where a candidate for mayor has run unopposed. Nelms was not the incumbent mayor. The incumbent was Charlotte Whitton who decided not to run again. After four years of wards just having numbers, names were returned to each of the wards. Mayor of Ottawa Ottawa Board of Control (4 elected) City council (2 elected from each ward) References Ottawa Citizen, December 4, 1956 Municipal elections in Ottawa Ottawa 1950s in Ottawa 1956 in Ontario December 1956 events in Canada