Blair Longley

Blair Timmothy Longley (born September 25, 1950) is a Canadian politician and activist.^[1]

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Longley attended the founding meeting of the Green Party of Canada in 1983 and went on to be an active member of the Rhinoceros Party of which he was official agent from 1985 to 1987.

He joined the Marijuana Party shortly after its founding and he became the leader of the Marijuana Party in 2005, following the resignation of Marc-Boris St-Maurice.^[2]

He has been a candidate for the Canadian House of Commons on three occasions, each time with a different party label. He ran for the Green Party in the 1984 election in the riding of Burnaby placing a distant fourth of four candidates with 364 of 58,991 votes. In 1988 he ran against opposition leader John Turner, with no party affiliation, and placed ninth of twelve candidates with 52 of 54,654 votes.

Longley ran for the Bloc pot in the 2003 Quebec provincial election. He later ran for the Marijuana Party in the riding of North Okanagan—Shuswap in 2004 and placed fifth of eight candidates with 492 of 51,765 votes, then in 2008 in the riding of Hochelaga, Quebec, placing eighth of nine with 183 of 45,683 votes.

Electoral record

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Bloc Québécois	Réal Ménard	22,720	49.73%	-5.84%
	Liberal	Diane Dicaire	9,442	20.66%	+3.42%
	New Democratic	Jean-Claude Rocheleau	6,600	14.44%	+5.53%
	Conservative	Luc Labbe	4,201	9.19%	-3.01%
	Green	Philippe Larochelle	1,946	4.25%	-0.60%
	Rhinoceros	Simon Crédible Berlingot Landry	230	0.50%	–
	Communist	Marianne Breton-Fontaine	184	0.40%	–
	Marijuana	Blair Longley	183	0.40%	-0.32%
	Marxist–Leninist	Christine Dandenault	177	0.38%	-0.09%
Total valid votes			45,683	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			644	1.39%
Turnout			46,327	58.24%
	Bloc Québécois hold		Swing		-4.6

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Darrel Stinson	24,014	46.39%	–	$73,168
	New Democratic	Alice Brown	12,528	24.20%	–	$36,696
	Liberal	Will Hansma	11,636	22.47%	–	$51,772
	Green	Erin Nelson	2,333	4.50%	–	$960
	Marijuana	Blair Longley	492	0.95%	–	$400
	Independent	Gordon Campbell	401	0.77%	–
	Canadian Action	Claire Foss	257	0.49%	–	$1,558
	Independent	K. No. Daniels	104	0.20%	–
Total valid votes			51,765	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			174	0.34%
Turnout			51,939

Quebec provincial by-election, September 20, 2004: Nelligan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Yolande James	7,812	52.58
	Independent	Michel Gibson	4,038	27.18
	Parti Québécois	Sahar Hawili	1,538	10.35
	Action démocratique	Tom Pentefountas	1,039	6.99
	Green	Ryan Young	251	1.69	–
	UFP	Josée Larouche	120	0.81	–
	Bloc Pot	Blair Longley	58	0.39
Total valid votes			14,856	100.00
Rejected and declined votes			62
Turnout			14,918	28.60
Electors on the lists			52,163
Sources: Official Results, Government of Quebec

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Turner	24,021
	Progressive Conservative	Bill Clarke	16,664
	New Democratic	Gerry Scott	11,687
	Reform	J.R. Jack Ford	1,112
	Rhinoceros	John Turner (no relation)	760
	Libertarian	Walter Boytinck	129
	Communist	Bert Ogden	75
	Independent	Albert A. Ritchie	74
	Independent	Blair T. Longley	52
	Confederation of Regions	Nora Galenzoski	35
	Commonwealth of Canada	G.J. Joseph Jackman	23
	Independent	Allen Soroka	22

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes
	New Democratic	Svend Robinson	28,318
	Progressive Conservative	Bill Langas	20,697
	Liberal	Mike Hillman	9,612
	Green	Blair T. Longley	364

References

1. Bio from the Marijuana Party website
2. "Leaders and Parties -Blair Longley Marijuana Party". CBC.ca. Retrieved 29 August 2010.

See also

• Canadian federal election, 2008