ontario pc party retain their stronghold in renfrew-nipissing-pembroke
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anrprior native billy denault handily won the renfrew-nipissing-pembroke riding for the ontario pc party.
conservative billy denault cruised to an easy victory in the rural riding of renfrew-nipissing-pembroke, leading the second place candidate, liberal oliver jacob, by more than 14,000 votes with 95 per cent of the polls reported.
denault had received more than 55 per cent of all votes cast in the longtime tory stronghold.
marshall buchanan of the new democratic party placed third.
voter turnout topped 48 per cent in the riding of nearly 90,000 voters.
voters in the huge northeaster ontario riding were guaranteed to have a new representative at queen’s park.
john yakabuski had held the riding for the provincial conservatives since 2003, but announced in november that he was not running for re-election. not that that meant the race was wide open. the one-time liberal bastion has voted conservative since the turn of the millennium.
denault, a lifelong ottawa valley resident and municipal councillor in arnprior, was named the conservative candidate in january.
community leader, municipal professional and former councillor oliver jacob returned as the liberal party candidate after finishing third in the riding in 2022 with 3,928 votes. from 2018 to 2022, jacob served as one of the youngest municipal councillors in the history of the township of mcnab/braeside.
marshall buchanan ran for the ndp and anna dolan for the green party.
renfrew-nipissing-pembroke is one of the largest ridings in all of canada. it sprawls northwest of the national capital region with the ottawa river as its northeastern boundary from arnprior north to deep river. the western boundary extends to algonquin provincial park.
the region is defined by its dense wilderness and tracts of farmland dotted with small historic towns, with well-traversed cottage country along the many lakes and rivers and the picturesque madawaska and bonnechere valleys.
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the largest community is pembroke, a former logging centre settled nearly 200 years ago and whose population has remained stable for decades at around 14,000 residents.
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