The results of a byelection held in Toronto—St. Paul's were delayed for hours after 84 candidates signed up to run

Montreal byelection to have most candidates in federal election history

The results of a byelection held in Toronto—St. Paul's were delayed for hours after 84 candidates signed up to run

Elections Canada’s final list will be available Wednesday. Sebastien “CoRhino” Corriveau, an organizer of the protest and leader of the satirical Rhinoceros Party, hopes the campaign will raise awareness about electoral reform and proportional representation. “It’s a ridiculous way of doing stuff,” he said. “But we did try other ways before, and everything failed.” Corriveau said when committee members went door-to-door asking for signatures to get prospective candidates on the ballot, one out of two people signed the papers. “The voting system is not the day-to-day concern of anybody in Canada right now, but people do agree it has to change,” he said. On June 24, the results of a byelection held in Toronto—St. Paul’s were delayed for hours after 84 candidates signed up to run, including 77 linked to the Longest Ballot Committee. Elections Canada printed ballots that were nearly a metre long, with two columns of names. The agency said that compared with usual elections, the enormous ballots took longer to unfold and tally, and more ballot boxes were required to hold them.