Randall Denley

Randall Denley is a Canadian journalist 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.

Background

Denley was born London, Ontario, Denley graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a journalism degree in 1973. 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. His third novel, a murder mystery titled One Dead Sister, was published in 2010. 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. He ran again in the 2014 election,

Electoral record