With 44,311 votes cast in total, Progressive Conservative candidate Billy Denault has won Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke with 54.8% of the electorate deciding in his favour.
It’s the first time an Arnprior resident will take a seat in the Ontario legislature since 1945, when Liberal James Anthony McCann captured the old Renfrew South seat, and sat for a single term at Queen’s Park.
While we can’t consider our question an “exit poll”, a number of voters at the Nick Smith Centre thought it high time there be an Arnpriorite taking the helm as local representative.
In second, Denault’s Braeside neighbour, Oliver Jacob, made it a strong showing for Eastern Renfrew County, and picked up another 22.1% of the Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke electorate’s support.
By Rick Stow