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.
| Election | Division | Party | Votes | % | Place | Winner |
| 1974 federal | Broadview | Ind. | 137 | 4/6 | John Gilbert, New Democratic Party | |
| 1975 provincial | Riverdale | Independent | 60 | 5/7 | Jim Renwick, Ontario New Democratic Party | |
| 1977 provincial | Riverdale | Libertarian Party | 196 | 5/6 | Jim Renwick, Ontario New Democratic Party | |
| 1979 federal | Broadview—Greenwood | Libertarian | 474 | 1.4 | 4/7 | Bob Rae, New Democratic Party |
| 1980 federal | Broadview—Greenwood | Libertarian | 352 | 1.1 | 4/9 | Bob Rae, New Democratic Party |