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Ontario Libertarian Party
Provincial political party in Ontario, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Ontario Libertarian Party (OLP; French: Parti libertarien de l'Ontario) is a minor libertarian party in the Canadian province of Ontario.
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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 group Battered Wives with proceeds split between the CCLA and Ontario Libertarian Party.[6]
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In the 2007 general election, the party fielded 25 candidates and obtained a total of 9,249 votes.[7]
In the 2011 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 the 2018 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 the 2022 Ontario general election.
In 1986, president Kaye Sargent received 93 votes in the Cochrane North by-election.[9] In 2024, leader Mark Snow received 129 votes, 0.35%, in a by-election in Bay of Quinte.[10][11]
The party has never won a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.[12]
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