Rawlson King
Rawlson King | |
|---|---|
| Ottawa City Councillor | |
| Assumed office April 16, 2019[1] | |
| Preceded by | Tobi Nussbaum |
| Constituency | Rideau-Rockcliffe Ward |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Residence | Overbrook[2] |
Rawlson O'Neil King[2] is a Canadian politician, who was elected to Ottawa City Council in a by-election on April 15, 2019.[3] King is the city's first-ever Black Canadian city councillor.
To advance anti-racism and race relations initiatives in 2020, King was appointed Council Liaison for Anti-Racism and Ethnocultural Relations Initiatives.
King is Chair of the Built Heritage Sub-Committee and serves on the Standing Committee on Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management, and on the boards of the Ottawa Police Service, Crime Prevention Ottawa, Ottawa Community Housing Corporation, Ottawa Community Lands Development Corporation and Quartier Vanier BIA.
Previously, King was a long time community volunteer, where he served as president of the Overbrook Community Association, a board member at the Rideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre, and co-chair of the Ottawa Police Service Community Equity Council.[3] He holds both a bachelor of journalism (with concentration in legal studies), and a M.A. in communication from Carleton University.
King identified his early priorities as developing a poverty reduction strategy for impoverished neighbourhoods; working to improve roads, public transit and social services; and improving the relationship of people of colour with the police.[4]
In his bid for election, King was endorsed by a number of high-profile progressives in Ottawa, including NDP MPP Joel Harden, city councillors Catherine McKenney and Shawn Menard, and former city councillor Clive Doucet.[5]
He succeeded Tobi Nussbaum as councillor for Rideau-Rockcliffe Ward.[6] King had previously run in Rideau-Rockcliffe in the 2010 municipal election and ran for a trustee seat on the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board in the 2018 municipal elections. He was unsuccessful on both occasions.
King's parents were teachers from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and his father was born in Aruba.[7]
Electoral record[]
2019 Rideau-Rockcliffe By-Election Results[]
| Rideau-Rockcliffe (Ward 13)[8] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Rawlson King | 1529 | 18.36% |
| Jamie Kwong | 1406 | 16.88% |
| Penny Thompson | 851 | 10.22% |
| Marc Dorgeville | 794 | 9.53 |
| Sheila Perry | 742 | 8.91 |
| Maurice Lamirande | 708 | 8.5 |
| Johan Hamels | 665 | 7.98 |
| Kasia Adamiec | 507 | 6.09 |
| Chris Penton | 441 | 5.29 |
| Oriana Ngabirano | 247 | 2.97 |
| Patrick Mayangi | 135 | 1.62 |
| Miklos Horvath | 89 | 1.07 |
| Peter Heyck | 58 | 0.7 |
| Peter Jan Karwacki | 48 | 0.58 |
| Jerry Kovacs | 46 | 0.55 |
| Idris Ben-Tahir | 35 | 0.42 |
| Bruce A. Faulkner | 29 | 0.35 |
2018 Ottawa municipal election[]
| Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (Zone 12)[9] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Sandra Schwartz (X) | 7,265 | 74.31 |
| Rawlson King | 2,511 | 25.69 |
2010 Ottawa municipal election[]
| Rideau-Rockcliffe (Ward 13)[10] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Peter D. Clark | 2722 | 25.84% |
| Maurice Lamirande | 1835 | 17.42% |
| Sheila Perry | 1709 | 16.22% |
| Bruce Poulin | 1695 | 16.09% |
| Richard Cannings | 1333 | 12.65% |
| Corry Burke | 438 | 4.16% |
| Rawlson King | 380 | 3.61% |
| Pierre Maheu | 224 | 2.13% |
| Harley Collison | 129 | 1.22% |
| James Parker | 69 | 0.66% |
References[]
- ^ "'Ecstatic but exhausted': Rawlson King ready to get to work as Ottawa's first black city councillor". Ottawa Citizen,April 17, 2019.
- ^ a b "Search For Contributions". Elections Canada. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
- ^ a b "Rawlson King wins Rideau-Rockcliffe byelection". CBC News, April 15, 2019.
- ^ "Rawlson King vows to take on poverty in Rideau-Rockcliffe". CBC News Ottawa, April 16, 2019.
- ^ https://www.rawlsonking.ca/endorsements
- ^ "Rawlson King deviendra le premier conseiller municipal noir à Ottawa". Ici Radio-Canada Ottawa-Gatineau, April 15, 2019.
- ^ "Ottawa has first Black councillor". Ron Fanfair. June 6, 2019.
- ^ "2019 Rideau-Rockcliffe By-Election Results". City of Ottawa. Retrieved 2019-05-27.
- ^ "2018 Election Results". City of Ottawa. Retrieved 2019-05-27.
- ^ "2010 municipal elections results". City of Ottawa. 13 August 2018. Retrieved 2019-05-27.
- Living people
- Black Canadian politicians
- Ottawa city councillors
- Politicians from Toronto
- Canadian people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines descent
- People of Aruban descent