[1] Da Silva received 208 votes (0.52%), finishing fifth against Liberal candidate Joe Volpe.
Mike Phillips was a perennial candidate for the Communist Party at the federal and provincial levels.
[2] Sweet was a toolmaker, administrator and IBM clerk in private life, and was a perennial candidate for federal, provincial and municipal office in North York.
[3] He joined the Communist Party at age eighteen and was a member for more than fifty years, working for a time in the organization's Toronto headquarters.
[9] The closest he ever came to winning election was in 1978, when he was narrowly defeated for a North York school trustee position.