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AlolanVulpixM to Fairvote CanadaEnglish · 1 month ago

Longest Ballot Committee: Bucking the trend 😀

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AlolanVulpixM to Fairvote CanadaEnglish · 1 month ago
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Bucking the trend 😀

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0…

The image shows a text excerpt discussing independent political candidates in Canada with the following quotes: "Bucking the overall trend is the number of independents running—there are 159 such candidates in 2025, up from 87 in 2021 and 119 in 2019. However, those gains disappear when excluding the 85 protest candidates running in Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's riding of Carleton, Ont.", "Those candidates are associated with the "Longest Ballot Committee," which protests the first-past-the-post voting system by registering large numbers of would-be MPs during byelections and in certain seats at general elections. Their presence on the ballot means Carleton voters will have 91 candidates to choose from.", "Overall, each riding has an average of 5.7 candidates—or 5.5 if the Longest Ballot Committee candidates are excluded—compared with an average of 5.9 in 2021, and 6.3 in 2019.", "The overall decline can be partly attributed to the two largest parties without official status—the Green Party and the People's Party—running far fewer candidates across the country than in previous years."

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