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 | |
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.
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.
| Year of election | No. of candidates | No. of votes | % of vote in contested ridings | % of popular vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 2 | 502 | 0.58% | 0.01% |
| 2011 | 4 | 667 | ? | 0.01% |
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