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Randall Denley

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Randall Denley
Personal details
BornLondon, Ontario
NationalityCanadian
Political partyProgressive Conservative Party of Ontario
OccupationNovelist, journalist
Websiterandalldenley.com

Randall Denley is a Canadian journalist and politician who ran as the Progressive Conservative (PC) candidate for Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) in Ottawa West—Nepean in 2011 election and 2014 election. He writes for the Ottawa Citizen and National Post as a columnist.[1]

Background

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Denley was born London, Ontario, Denley graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a journalism degree in 1973.[1]

Writing career

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Denley spent several years as a journalist and editor for the Owen Sound Sun Times[1] before joining the Ottawa Citizen as a journalist in 1983.[1] In 1992, he moved from the regular journalism beat to a political column with the paper, writing about both municipal and provincial politics.[1]

Denley's first novel, a murder mystery titled Necessary Victims, was serialized in the Citizen in 2004.[2] In 2006, he published The Perfect Candidate, a satire of local municipal politics in which Will Hacker, a former hockey player turned radio talk show host, is bribed by local developers to run a fake campaign for mayor of Ottawa.[3] His third novel, a murder mystery titled One Dead Sister, was published in 2010.[3]

Denley now publishes the occasional op-ed in newspapers like the National Post.

Provincial politics

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Denley took a leave of absence from the Citizen in 2011 to run as an Ontario Progressive Conservative Party candidate in Ottawa West—Nepean for the 2011 provincial election.[4] He briefly returned to the Citizen as an editorial writer after losing the election to incumbent MPP Bob Chiarelli, but retired from the paper in 2012.[5] He ran again in the 2014 election,[5] again losing to Chiarelli.[6]

Electoral record

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2014 Ontario general election: Ottawa West—Nepean
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Bob Chiarelli 21,035 44.84 +4.06
Progressive Conservative Randall Denley 15,895 33.89 −6.06
New Democratic Alex Cullen 6,760 14.41 −0.51
Green Alex Hill 2,899 6.18 +2.67
Libertarian Matthew Brooks 318 0.68
Total valid votes 46,907 98.49
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots 719 1.51
Turnout 47,626 55.95
Eligible voters 85,125  
Liberal hold Swing +5.06
Source(s)
"General Election Results by District, 066 Ottawa West—Nepean". Elections Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
2011 Ontario general election: Ottawa West—Nepean
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Bob Chiarelli 18,492 41.62 −1.83 $ 93,241.85
Progressive Conservative Randall Denley 17,483 39.35 +0.36 80,950.00
New Democratic Wendy Byrne 6,576 14.80 +6.35 13,936.09
Green Alex Hill 1,485 3.34 −4.96 3,113.29
Family Coalition John Pacheco 396 0.89   8,382.66
Total valid votes / expense limit 44,432 100.00 +56.27 $ 97,809.67
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots 174 0.39 −0.18
Turnout 44,606 54.27 +21.33
Eligible voters 82,187   −5.32
Liberal hold Swing −1.10

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Making the jump to politics". Toronto Sun, September 3, 2011.
  2. ^ "Columnist turns sights from City Hall to city streets". Ottawa Citizen, June 26, 2004.
  3. ^ a b "London native marries reality, fiction in latest book". London Free Press, December 21, 2010.
  4. ^ "Citizen columnist to run for Tories against Chiarelli". CBC News, May 17, 2011.
  5. ^ a b "Candidates in Ottawa West-Nepean riding share a fraught political past". The Globe and Mail, May 18, 2014.
  6. ^ "Liberal Bob Chiarelli holds seat in Ottawa West-Nepean". Global News, June 12, 2014.
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