Even the most failed electoral candidates usually vote for themselves
According to early results, the protest candidates all garnered at least a couple throwaway votes, except for one: Felix-Antoine Hamel, who got zero.
Hamel doesn’t live in the riding and thus couldn’t vote for himself, and something about his name apparently dissuaded Toronto protest voters from picking him as their preferred throwaway candidate.
He’s certainly the first federal candidate in modern Canadian history not to receive a single vote, and he may well be the first in the history of Confederation, if not British North America generally.
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