Liberals, NDP, Conservatives fielding full slate of federal election candidates
Tory Leader Poilievre will also be running against at least 78 other candidates thanks to Longest Ballot Committee protest
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OTTAWA — All three major political parties will see a full slate of candidates in this month’s federal election.
Spokespeople with the Conservative, New Democratic and Liberal parties all confirmed with the Toronto Sun that they’ll have candidates contesting each of the 343 ridings up for grabs in the April 28 election.
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In his home riding of Carleton, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will have at least 78 other candidates on the ballot thanks to an ongoing election protest by the Longest Ballot Committee.
Committee spokesperson Tomas Szuchewycz told the Toronto Sun they had also planned to run candidates in Nepean — the riding being contested by Liberal Leader Mark Carney — but weren’t able to due to tight deadlines and poor weather.
He told the Sun in January they’d initially planned to target University—Rosedale, Chrystia Freeland’s riding, before Carney was chosen as Liberal leader.
As part of an election protest targeting the Trudeau Liberals’ failure to honour promised election reforms, the committee was responsible for creating comically large ballots in previous elections — flouting loose residency requirements and encouraging Canadians across the country to run as Independents.
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This will be the second federal election targeted by the committee, which last targeted the 2021 election by inflating the St. Boniface—St. Vital ballot in Winnipeg to 21 names.
While no doubt large, the ballot for Carleton won’t be their largest.
The ballot for the 2024 federal byelection in Montreal’s LaSalle—Emard—Verdun riding saw a record-breaking 91 candidates, topping their previous record of 84 candidates for the 2024 Toronto—St. Paul’s byelection.
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