The list of candidates for the by-election in the district of Battle Rive-Crowfoot, in Alberta, reached more than 200 people, the overwhelming majority of whom is part of the “Committee for the Longest Bulletin of Voting”.
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Some 208 people are in the running for the ballot, according to the list of confirmed candidates for Canada elections dated July 28, which should be formalized on Wednesday.
Other names could therefore be added by then.
199 of the 208 applications are represented by the official agent Tomas Szuchewycz, and are therefore directly linked to the “Committee for the longest ballot”.
The latter, which aims to prevent elected officials from determining the rules of the elections in which they participate, was strongly criticized by the conservative candidate Pierre Hairyvre in recent weeks.
The leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, who will try a return to the House of Commons after having been defeated in the constituency of Carleton in Ontario, qualifies the initiative as “anti -democratic”.
He has also written a letter to the federal government so that he can see the rules governing a candidacy, among others, so that an official agent can represent only one candidate.
The committee was delighted to have achieved the objective that he had given himself to extend the ballot to more than 200 candidates.
“As we did, my friends,” he says on his Bluesky account. Thank you to all those involved. We hope that elected officials will hear our message and will pass the responsibility for the laws governing the elections to a permanent and not partisan committee, as a citizen assembly for example. ”
This by -election was triggered following the resignation of the conservative deputy Damien Kurek, who had obtained 82.8% of the vote in April, but who decided to give the opportunity to the leader of his party to try a return to the House of Commons.
It will take place on August 18.
The previous record for the longest ballot was 91, established in September 2024 during the by -election in LaSalle – Emard – Verdun and equaled last April in the district of Carleton.