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The candidates
Conservative: Andy Wang has spent the last five years as the executive assistant to Nepean-Carleton MP and current Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister of State Pierre Poilievre. Wang’s nomination wasn’t without controversy – he beat Conservative historian and National Capital Commission board member Bob Plamondon, despite support for Plamondon from Tory heavy hitters like John Baird. Wang is the principal at Daido Academy, a Barrhaven organization that teaches Chinese martial arts and dance.
Website: www.andywang.cahttp://www.andywang.ca
Phone: 613-519-1343
@andywang_ca
Liberal: A business executive, community activist and father, Chandra Arya has spent the past three years on the board of directors for Invest Ottawa, the economic development agency of the city. Arya has also been a board member of OCISO Not For Profit Housing Corporation and Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization. Arya lives in Nepean with his wife, Sangeetha.
Website:chandraarya.liberal.ca
Phone: 613-400-7884
@ChandraNepean
New Democrat: There are currently two candidates expected to seek the NDP nomination at a meeting scheduled for August 18. Sean Devine is a professional fundraiser, playwright and activist who is the co-founder and artistic director of Horseshoes and Hand Grenades. Denise Doherty-Delorme is negotiator for a national professional union and has managed community newspapers. A mother of three, she has been a volunteer soccer coach and managed hockey and volleyball teams.
Green: Jean-Luc Cooke ran for the Green Party in 2011 in the old riding of Nepean-Carleton, but finished fourth in the balloting. He has been a member of the Green’s shadow cabinet for small business and entrepreneurship for the past five years. He founded his own security consulting firm in 2001 and is currently working with another data security start-up. He lives in Bells Corners with his wife and two daughters.
Website: Votejeanluc.cahttp://votejeanluc.ca/
Phone: 613-800-0571
Twitter: @votejeanluc
The riding
Nepean is a newly created electoral district, the result of a redistribution of the old riding of Nepean-Carleton. It encompasses the more urban portions of the old riding, including the fast-growing suburb of Barrhaven along with the communities of the old city of Nepean. Former Ottawa West-Nepean MP John Baird was planning to run in this riding before announcing earlier this year he was quitting politics.
The riding is home to 104,775 residents, according to Statistics Canada, with more than a quarter of them being visible minorities. Its residents are relatively affluent: more than half of households reported an average annual income of $80,000 or higher.
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2011 results
The riding didn’t exist in 2011, but Elections Canada conducts a transposition of votes when new ridings are created that show how many votes the top two parties received within the new boundaries. In Nepean’s case, the Conservatives secured 51 per cent of the vote, nearly double the 27 per cent secured by the runner-up Liberals.
What to watch for
With no incumbent or experienced candidates — although the Green’s Cooke has run before — Wang appears to have the upper hand from having worked closely with Poilievre. He also recruited voters in the area’s ethnic community to secure the nomination, which could help him in the campaign. And the riding has a history of voting Conservative: Nepean-Carleton voters elected Poilievre handily in the past four elections, although the riding redistribution has cut off many of the rural Conservative voters.
That the choice of the young and politically inexperienced Wang over the more statesman-like Plamondon set tongues wagging among political insiders seems of little interest to voters at large.
Arya has an impressive resumé and won’t be a pushover, but he has a wide gap to close for the Liberals to take Nepean — perhaps impossibly wide.
aseymour@ottawacitizen.com
Twitter.com/andrew_seymour
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Conservative: Andy Wang has spent the last five years as the executive assistant to Nepean-Carleton MP and current Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister of State Pierre Poilievre. Wang’s nomination wasn’t without controversy – he beat Conservative historian and National Capital Commission board member Bob Plamondon, despite support for Plamondon from Tory heavy hitters like John Baird. Wang is the principal at Daido Academy, a Barrhaven organization that teaches Chinese martial arts and dance.
Website: www.andywang.cahttp://www.andywang.ca
Phone: 613-519-1343
@andywang_ca
Liberal: A business executive, community activist and father, Chandra Arya has spent the past three years on the board of directors for Invest Ottawa, the economic development agency of the city. Arya has also been a board member of OCISO Not For Profit Housing Corporation and Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization. Arya lives in Nepean with his wife, Sangeetha.
Website:chandraarya.liberal.ca
Phone: 613-400-7884
@ChandraNepean
New Democrat: There are currently two candidates expected to seek the NDP nomination at a meeting scheduled for August 18. Sean Devine is a professional fundraiser, playwright and activist who is the co-founder and artistic director of Horseshoes and Hand Grenades. Denise Doherty-Delorme is negotiator for a national professional union and has managed community newspapers. A mother of three, she has been a volunteer soccer coach and managed hockey and volleyball teams.
Green: Jean-Luc Cooke ran for the Green Party in 2011 in the old riding of Nepean-Carleton, but finished fourth in the balloting. He has been a member of the Green’s shadow cabinet for small business and entrepreneurship for the past five years. He founded his own security consulting firm in 2001 and is currently working with another data security start-up. He lives in Bells Corners with his wife and two daughters.
Website: Votejeanluc.cahttp://votejeanluc.ca/
Phone: 613-800-0571
Twitter: @votejeanluc
The riding
Nepean is a newly created electoral district, the result of a redistribution of the old riding of Nepean-Carleton. It encompasses the more urban portions of the old riding, including the fast-growing suburb of Barrhaven along with the communities of the old city of Nepean. Former Ottawa West-Nepean MP John Baird was planning to run in this riding before announcing earlier this year he was quitting politics.
The riding is home to 104,775 residents, according to Statistics Canada, with more than a quarter of them being visible minorities. Its residents are relatively affluent: more than half of households reported an average annual income of $80,000 or higher.
No caption, leave this text or replace image
2011 results
The riding didn’t exist in 2011, but Elections Canada conducts a transposition of votes when new ridings are created that show how many votes the top two parties received within the new boundaries. In Nepean’s case, the Conservatives secured 51 per cent of the vote, nearly double the 27 per cent secured by the runner-up Liberals.
What to watch for
With no incumbent or experienced candidates — although the Green’s Cooke has run before — Wang appears to have the upper hand from having worked closely with Poilievre. He also recruited voters in the area’s ethnic community to secure the nomination, which could help him in the campaign. And the riding has a history of voting Conservative: Nepean-Carleton voters elected Poilievre handily in the past four elections, although the riding redistribution has cut off many of the rural Conservative voters.
That the choice of the young and politically inexperienced Wang over the more statesman-like Plamondon set tongues wagging among political insiders seems of little interest to voters at large.
Arya has an impressive resumé and won’t be a pushover, but he has a wide gap to close for the Liberals to take Nepean — perhaps impossibly wide.
aseymour@ottawacitizen.com
Twitter.com/andrew_seymour
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