Rhinoceros Party
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The Rhinoceros Party, officially the Parti Rhinocéros Party, is a Canadian federal political party. It originally existed from 1963 to 1993. It was refounded in Montreal on May 21, 2006, and was registered with Elections Canada on August 23, 2007. It was known as neorhino.ca until 2010, when the party changed its name and logo.
Sébastien CoRhino Corriveau, leader of the Rhinoceros Party since 2014, shown here in 2019.
Non-human electoral candidates
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Non-human electoral candidates have been found in a number of countries. Often, the candidacies are a means of casting a protest vote or satirizing the political system. At other times it is simply done for entertainment value.
The billy-goat Ioiô on display in the Museum of Ceará in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
Stubbs, former honorary mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska
A statue of Macaco Tião, a candidate for mayor of Rio de Janeiro, is exhibited at the Rio de Janeiro Zoological Garden
Dustin the Turkey, a puppet, received thousands of votes in Ireland's 1997 presidential election.