Longest Ballot Committee

The Longest Ballot Committee is a political movement in Canada, at one time affiliated with the Rhinoceros Party,[1] known for flooding ballots with a large number of independent candidates in protest of the first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting system and other electoral reform related issues.

[2] The group has gained national attention, most notably during the 2022 Mississauga—Lakeshore federal by-election, the 2023 Winnipeg South Centre federal by-election,[3] and the 2024 Toronto—St.

[4] The committee's actions have prompted amendments to election laws to accommodate a greater number of names on the ballots[5] and generated significant controversy.

Paul's federal by-election, it took hours for Elections Canada workers to count all the ballots.

The agency said it was bogged down because there were dozens of candidates on the unwieldy, nearly metre-long ballot — some of whom were proportional representation activists running as a protest to the country's first-past-the-post voting system.