Commemorative pin given to candidates in the 2022 Mississauga—Lakeshore and 2023 Winnipeg South Centre by-elections
The Longest Ballot Committee is a political movement in Canada, at one time affiliated with the Rhinoceros Party,[1] known for flooding ballots with a large number of independent candidates in protest of the first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting system and other electoral reform related issues.[2] The group has gained national attention, most notably during the 2022 Mississauga—Lakeshore federal by-election, the 2023 Winnipeg South Centre federal by-election[3], and the 2024 Toronto—St. Paul's federal by-election.[4]
The committee's actions have prompted amendments to election laws to accommodate a greater number of names on the ballots[5] and generated significant controversy.[6]
In the June 2024 Toronto—St. Paul's federal by-election, it took hours for Elections Canada workers to count all the ballots. While polls closed at 8:30 p.m. ET, the final results weren't known until about 4:30 a.m. ... The agency said it was bogged down because there were dozens of candidates on the unwieldy, nearly metre (yard) long ballot — some of whom were proportional representation activists running as a protest to the country's first-past-the-post voting system.[4]
^Passifiume, Bryan (2024-06-03). "Why Mitch Marner and Alberta have become big issues in a record-breaking Toronto byelection". The National Post. Retrieved 2024-06-09.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^Passifiume, Bryan (2023-12-27). "Long ballot activists planning to make short work of Toronto byelection". The National Post.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ abTasker, John Paul (25 June 2024). "Conservatives win longtime Liberal stronghold Toronto-St. Paul's in shock byelection result". CBC News. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
^"17-B-2023-02 – Adaptations to ensure that the names of all candidates can appear on the ballot and to bring related amendments to voting procedures and counting votes". Elections Canada. 2024-06-19. Retrieved 2024-06-09.
^Posted, Shannon Sampert (2023-06-15). "Opinion: 48 candidates is no voting panacea". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 2024-06-09.
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