Party for People with Special Needs
Provincial political party in Canada
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The Party for People with Special Needs (French: Parti pour les gens qui ont des besoins spéciaux) is a minor political party in Ontario, Canada, founded in 2007 and having contested the 2007 provincial election.[2] The party ran two candidates, leader Danish Ahmed in Toronto Centre and John Rubino in Trinity—Spadina,[3] neither of whom won.
Party for People with Special Needs Parti pour les gens qui ont des besoins spéciaux | |
|---|---|
| Active provincial party | |
| Leader | Lionel Wayne Poizner[1] |
| President | Lionel Wayne Poizner |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters | 94 Armour Blvd Toronto ON M3H 1L7 |
| Ideology | Recognition of people with disabilities as people with special needs |
| Seats in Legislature | 0 / 107
|
| Website | |
| partyforpeoplewithspecialneeds | |
PPSN was founded following a rule change regarding official party recognition; parties were required to only field two candidates to be registered, as opposed to the previous requirement of running candidates in half of all electoral districts.[4] The party's mandate was to focus on the needs of people with disabilities. The party failed to win any seats in the 2022 Ontario general election.
Election results
| Election year | No. of overall votes |
% of overall total |
No. of candidates run |
No. of seats won |
+/− | Government |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 502 | 0.01 | 2 | 0 / 107 |
New Party | Extra-parliamentary |
| 2011 | 667 | 0.02 | 4 | 0 / 107 |
= | Extra-parliamentary |
| 2014 | 709 | 0.01 | 3 | 0 / 107 |
= | Extra-parliamentary |
| 2018 | 631 | 0.01 | 5 | 0 / 124 |
= | Extra-parliamentary |
| 2022 | 290 | 0.01 | 2 | 0 / 124 |
= | Extra-parliamentary |
| 2025 | 397 | 0.01 | 2 | 0 / 124 |
= | Extra-parliamentary |
