None John Scott The newly incorporated Town of Bytown, Canada West (now Ottawa) held a municipal election on September 11, 1847, to elect members of the first Bytown Town Council.

[2] For the election, Bytown was divided into three wards, West, North and South.

Further, the division of Lower Town into two wards was seen as an attempt to divide the Francophone and Irish communities and commercial interests.

[3] * First names of candidates were omitted from the source document, so in these cases candidates' first names or initials were taken from 1851 Bytown Canada Directory, assuming they were the same people[4] On September 18, after the council election, the members voted for a mayor from among their ranks.

The Tory councillors from Upper Town supported John Bower Lewis, and the Reform councillors from Lower Town supported John Scott.