Ontario Libertarian Party
The Ontario Libertarian Party is a minor libertarian party in the Canadian province of Ontario.
The party is guided by a charter of principles, and proposes an Ontario charter of rights and freedoms which includes a section on immigration language restrictions. It holds that Ontario is a "sovereign state within the nation of Canada", and seeks to increase provincial autonomy.
In 1978, a benefit concert named "Rock Against Repression" was organised by the punk group Battered Wives with proceeds split between the CCLA and Ontario Libertarian Party.
Election results
In the 2007 general election, the party fielded 25 candidates and obtained a total of 9,249 votes.In the 2011 general election, the party ran 51 candidates and won a total of 19,387 votes; the party received 0.45% of the popular vote, which was more than double the number of candidates and votes received in 2007.
In the 2018 Ontario general election, the Libertarian Party ran in 117 out of 124 ridings, receiving 0.74% of the overall vote.
The party fielded only 16 candidates in the 2022 Ontario general election.
In 1986, president Kaye Sargent received 93 votes in the Cochrane North by-election. In 2024, leader Mark Snow received 129 votes, 0.35%, in a by-election in Bay of Quinte.
The party has never won a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
| Election year | Leader | No. of overall votes | % of overall total | No. of candidates run | No. of seats won | +/− | Presence |
| 1975 | Terry Coughlin | 4,752 | 0.13% | 17 | New Party | ||
| 1977 | Paul Mollon | 9,961 | 0.30% | 31 | 0 | ||
| 1981 | Scott Bell | 7,087 | 0.22% | 12 | 0 | ||
| 1985 | Scott Bell | 12,831 | 0.4% | 17 | 0 | ||
| 1987 | Kaye Sargent | 13,514 | 0.36% | 25 | 0 | ||
| 1990 | James Stock | 24,613 | 0.61% | 45 | 0 | ||
| 1995 | John Shadbolt | 6,085 | 0.15% | 7 | 0 | ||
| 1999 | Sam Apelbaum | 2,337 | 0.05% | 7 | 0 | ||
| 2003 | Sam Apelbaum | 1,991 | 0.04% | 5 | 0 | ||
| 2007 | Sam Apelbaum | 9,249 | 0.21% | 25 | 0 | ||
| 2011 | Sam Apelbaum | 19,447 | 0.45% | 51 | 0 | ||
| 2014 | Allen Small | 37,696 | 0.81% | 74 | 0 | ||
| 2018 | Allen Small | 42,918 | 0.75% | 117 | 0 | ||
| 2022 | Mark Snow | 5,242 | 0.11% | 16 | 0 | ||
| 2025 | Mark Snow | 7,684 | 0.15% | 17 | 0 |