Montreal Byelection to Have Most Candidates in Federal Election History

Montreal Byelection to Have Most Candidates in Federal Election History
A voter casts their ballot in the advance polls in Chambly, Que., on Sept. 10, 2021. The Canadian Press/Ryan Remiorz
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An upcoming byelection in Montreal will have the longest ballot in the history of Canadian federal elections, breaking a record set earlier this summer in Toronto.

At least 91 candidates will be on the ballot for the Sept. 16 byelection in LaSalle—Émard—Verdun, according to Elections Canada. Seventy-nine of them are linked to the Longest Ballot Committee, a group protesting Canada’s first-past-the-post voting system. The group wants a citizens’ assembly to be in charge of electoral reform, because they say political parties are too reluctant to make the government more representative of the diverse views of the electorate.