by Maurice Y. Michaud (he/him)
One would think it should be impossible to run in an election and not get at least receive one vote. I mean, you would think that if I were to run, I would likely vote for myself, so there’s one vote to start. But I could be in the same situation as Mark Carney in 2025: he wasn’t a resident of Nepean where he ran, so he is assumed to have voted for Mona Fortier in Ottawa—Vanier—Gloucester.
Let’s start by setting aside those who won by acclamation. It’s not so much that they didn’t get a vote as they didn’t have to get any. A query of the more than 130,000 result records, excluding results of zero for candidates who had desisted themselves, reveals that there have been a few — even before the terribly misguided Long Ballot Initiative. It could be that some of the non-LBI candidates had also desisted themselves, but I could find no documentation confirming or denying this fact, so let’s amuse ourselves with thinking that they really did suffer the embarrassing fate of obtaining no vote.
| There are 15 distinct candidates, with 6 having a full profile in PoliCan, including one who would later become premier of Prince Edward Island. |
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| Event | Riding | Candidacies | Results | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | ON | 2 | G | 21 Mar 1871 | Halton  ........................................ |
✗ | IND | ♂ ? Appelbe | 3/3 | 0 | 0.00% |
| 2. | ON | 2 | G | 21 Mar 1871 | Peel .......................................... |
✗ | IND | ♂ F.C. Capreol | 3/3 | 0 | 0.00% |
| 3. | PE | 31 | G | 30 Jan 1890 | Queens 1st .................................... |
✗ | LIB | ♂ John M. Clarke |
5/5 | 0 | 0.00% |
| 4. | NB | 26 | G | 26 Apr 1886 | Albert ........................................ |
✗ | IND | ♂ Peter Duffy | 5/5 | 0 | 0.00% |
| 5. | QC | 44 | B | 16 Sep 2024 | LaSalle—Émard—Verdun .......................... |
✗ | LBI | ♂ Ysack E. Dupont | 90/91 | 0 | 0.00% |
| 6. | ON | 45 | G | 28 Apr 2025 | Carleton ...................................... |
✗ | LBI | ♂ Ysack E. Dupont | 91/91 | 0 | 0.00% |
| 7. | PE | 26 | G | 2 Apr 1873 | Queens 2nd .................................... |
✗ | LIB | ♂ Donald Farquharson |
5/5 | 0 | 0.00% |
| 8. | NB | 23 | G | 20 Jun 1874 | Kent .......................................... |
✗ | IND | ♂ Jacob C. Gough |
5/5 | 0 | 0.00% |
| 9. | ON | 44 | B | 24 Jun 2024 | Toronto—St. Paul’s ...................... |
✗ | LBI | ♂ Felix-Antoine Hamel | 84/84 | 0 | 0.00% |
| 10. | QC | 2 | G | 15 Jul 1871 | Jacques-Cartier ............................... |
✗ | QLP | ♂ T.A. Rodolphe Laflamme |
3/3 | 0 | 0.00% |
| 11. | QC | 2 | G | 15 Jul 1871 | Shefford ...................................... |
✗ | IND | ♂ J.-B. Lay | 3/3 | 0 | 0.00% |
| 12. | NB | 26 | B | 6 Apr 1887 | Madawaska ..................................... |
✗ | CONS | ♂ Mathias Nadeau |
2/2 | 0 | 0.00% |
| 13. | ON | 1 | G | 3 Sep 1867 | Lanark South .................................. |
✗ | IND | ♂ ? Playfair | 4/4 | 0 | 0.00% |
| 14. | NU | 5 | G | 30 Oct 2017 | Quttiktuq ..................................... |
✗ | IND | ♀ Rachel A. Qitsualik-Tinsley |
9/9 | 0 | 0.00% |
| 15. | QC | 44 | B | 16 Sep 2024 | LaSalle—Émard—Verdun .......................... |
✗ | LBI | ♂ Daniel Stuckless | 91/91 | 0 | 0.00% |
| 16. | MB | 18 | G | 28 Jun 1927 | Emerson ....................................... |
✗ | IND | ♂ P. Tanchuk | 6/6 | 0 | 0.00% |
