The list of candidates running against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in an upcoming Alberta byelection has now grown to more than 100, setting a Canadian record.
There are currently 108 other candidates listed for the Battle River-Crowfoot riding as of July 19. The vast majority of the candidates are running as independents as part of a protest movement about Canada’s electoral system.
The byelection was called after MP Damien Kurek stepped down to allow Poilievre to run and win a seat. Poilievre lost his riding of Carleton in the recent federal election, which was similarly targeted by the protest movement with 90 candidates.
The Longest Ballot Committee (LBC) said it wants to organize about 200 candidates for the Alberta riding. The LBC was created to protest Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system. In the Carleton riding, ballots were almost a metre long, and had to be folded several times to fit in the ballot box….