Libertarian Party of Canada candidates in the 1980 Canadian federal election


The Libertarian Party of Canada fielded a number of candidates in the 1980 federal election, none of whom were elected. Information about these candidates may be found on this page.

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Walter Belej (Broadview">Broadview (federal electoral district)">Broadview)

Belej first campaigned for the House of Commons of Canada in the 1974 federal election. He identified himself as a twenty-seven-year-old unregistered architect. Although a member of the Libertarian Party, he ran as an independent. Some months after the election, he wrote a Letter to the editor defending a dental technician who was fined for practising without a licence. He described dentists as a "professional price-fixing gang" and argued in favour of a purely voluntary system.
He campaigned as an independent again in the 1975 provincial election, and later ran as an official candidate of both the federal and provincial Libertarian parties.
ElectionDivisionPartyVotes%PlaceWinner
1974 federalBroadviewInd. 1374/6John Gilbert, New Democratic Party
1975 provincialRiverdaleIndependent605/7Jim Renwick, Ontario New Democratic Party
1977 provincialRiverdaleLibertarian Party1965/6Jim Renwick, Ontario New Democratic Party
1979 federalBroadview—GreenwoodLibertarian4741.44/7Bob Rae, New Democratic Party
1980 federalBroadview—GreenwoodLibertarian3521.14/9Bob Rae, New Democratic Party

Alex Eaglesham ([Etobicoke [North (federal electoral district)|Etobicoke North]])

Eaglesham received 153 votes, finishing sixth against the Ontario New Democratic Party incumbent Tony Grande. He later become leader of the Libertarian Party of Canada.