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Kaye Sargent
Kaye Sargent is a political activist in Ontario, Canada. She is currently the Deputy Leader of the Ontario Libertarian Party, and served as the party's leader for three years in the late 1980s. She has also campaigned as a candidate of the Libertarian Party of Canada.
Formerly a singer, Sargent is now a homemaker and writer living in Innerkip, Ontario . She a follower of Ayn Rand (though she has criticized some of Rand's ideas), and has been involved with the Libertarian Party since 1979. Sargent led the OLP into the provincial election of 1987, and has remained one of its most prominent figures since that time. She was elected as the party's Deputy Leader in 1999.
She acknowledges that the Libertarian Party has no hope of electing candidates in Ontario's current political culture, but continues to run for office out of principle.
Electoral History:
- Ontario general election, 1981, received 493 votes in Oxford (winner: Dick Treleaven , Progressive Conservative)
- Canadian federal election, 1984, received 322 votes in Oxford (winner: Bruce Halliday , Progressive Conservative)
- Ontario general election, 1985, received 729 votes in Oxford (winner: Dick Treleaven, Progressive Conservative)
- provincial by-election, August 14, 1987, received 99 votes in Cochrane North (winner: René Fontaine, Liberal)
- Ontario general election, 1987, received 466 votes in Oxford (winner: Charlie Tatham , Liberal)
- Canadian federal election, 1988, received 187 votes in Oxford (winner: Bruce Halliday, Progressive Conservative)
- Ontario general election, 1990, received 635 votes in Oxford (winner: Kimble Sutherland, New Democrat)
- Canadian federal election, 1993, received 219 votes in Oxford (winner: John Finlay , Liberal)
- Ontario general election, 1995, received 386 votes in Oxford (winner: Ernie Hardeman, Progressive Conservative)
- Ontario general election, 1999, received 321 votes in Oxford (winner: Ernie Hardeman, Progressive Conservative)
- Ontario general election, 2003, received 306 votes in Oxford (winner: Ernie Hardeman, Progressive Conservative)
- Canadian federal election, 2004, received 226 votes in Oxford (winner: Dave Mackenzie, Conservative)
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