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Ontario Libertarian Party Parti libertarien de l'Ontario | |
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| Leader | Mark Snow[1] |
| Deputy leader (Interim) | Scott Marshall |
| Chairman | Michelle Lashbrook[2] |
| Vice Chairman | Joel Eckert |
| Secretary | Coreen Corcoran[3] |
| Chief Financial Officer | Jim McIntosh |
| Founded | 1975 (1975) |
| Headquarters | 5115 County Road 10Fournier ON K0B 1G0 |
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| Colours | Yellow |
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TheOntario Libertarian Party (OLP;French:Parti libertarien de l'Ontario) is a minorlibertarian party in theCanadian province ofOntario.
The party is guided by a charter of principles, and proposes an Ontario charter of rights and freedoms which includes a section on immigration language restrictions.[4] It holds that Ontario is a "sovereign state within the nation of Canada", and seeks to increase provincial autonomy.[5]
In 1978, a benefit concert named "Rock Against Repression" was organised by the punk groupBattered Wives with proceeds split between theCCLA and Ontario Libertarian Party.[6]
In the2007 general election, the party fielded 25 candidates and obtained a total of 9,249 votes.[7]
In the2011 general election, the party ran 51 candidates and won a total of 19,387 votes; the party received 0.45% of the popular vote, which was more than double the number of candidates and votes received in 2007.[8]
In the2018 Ontario general election, the Libertarian Party ran in 117 out of 124 ridings, receiving 0.74% of the overall vote.
The party fielded only 16 candidates in the2022 Ontario general election.
In 1986, president Kaye Sargent received 93 votes in theCochrane North by-election.[9] In 2024, leader Mark Snow received 129 votes, 0.35%, in a by-election inBay of Quinte.[10][11]
The party has never won a seat in theLegislative Assembly of Ontario.[12]
| Election year | Leader | No. of overall votes | % of overall total | No. of candidates run | No. of seats won | +/− | Presence |
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| 1975 | Terry Coughlin | 4,752 | 0.13% | 17 | 0 / 125 | New Party | Extra-parliamentary |
| 1977 | Paul Mollon | 9,961 | 0.30% | 31 | 0 / 125 | 0 | Extra-parliamentary |
| 1981 | Scott Bell | 7,087 | 0.22% | 12 | 0 / 125 | 0 | Extra-parliamentary |
| 1985 | 12,831 | 0.4% | 17 | 0 / 125 | 0 | Extra-parliamentary | |
| 1987 | Kaye Sargent | 13,514 | 0.36% | 25 | 0 / 130 | 0 | Extra-parliamentary |
| 1990 | James Stock | 24,613 | 0.61% | 45 | 0 / 130 | 0 | Extra-parliamentary |
| 1995 | John Shadbolt | 6,085 | 0.15% | 7 | 0 / 130 | 0 | Extra-parliamentary |
| 1999 | Sam Apelbaum | 2,337 | 0.05% | 7 | 0 / 103 | 0 | Extra-parliamentary |
| 2003 | 1,991 | 0.04% | 5 | 0 / 103 | 0 | Extra-parliamentary | |
| 2007 | 9,249 | 0.21% | 25 | 0 / 107 | 0 | Extra-parliamentary | |
| 2011 | 19,447 | 0.45% | 51 | 0 / 107 | 0 | Extra-parliamentary | |
| 2014 | Allen Small | 37,696 | 0.81% | 74 | 0 / 107 | 0 | Extra-parliamentary |
| 2018 | 42,918 | 0.75% | 117 | 0 / 124 | 0 | Extra-parliamentary | |
| 2022 | Mark Snow | 5,242 | 0.11% | 16 | 0 / 124 | 0 | Extra-parliamentary |
| 2025 | 7,684 | 0.15% | 17 | 0 / 124 | 0 | Extra-parliamentary |
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