343 seats, and every one of them voted 173 times.

The unit is the riding, not the member. There are 343 ridings and they do not move; members do. Over a session some seats change hands, and a grid keyed to members would have to grow or shrink or lie. Keyed to ridings it is 343 cells throughout, and a seat that changed hands shows the vote of whoever held it that day. Checked at build across all 59,242 positions: there is no case of two members mapping to the same riding on the same division.

This page shows recorded divisions only — 173 of them. The great majority of House business passes on voice votes, on unanimous consent, or at committee, and produces no per-member record at all. A grid that felt like a complete picture of Parliament would be the most misleading object on this site, so it says the number in its first sentence and says this here.

The totals are checked against a second source in the same database. bills_votequestion stores its own yea, nay and paired totals, written independently of the per-member rows. The build recomputes all three from the grid and compares. All 173 divisions agree. If any did not, this page would fail to generate rather than ship a picture that disagrees with the numbers printed beside it.

Absence is not abstention. bills_membervote.vote is one of Y, N, P or A. A means no vote was recorded for that seat — travel, illness, ministerial business, the chair. It is not a stance, so it is drawn as the absence of a mark rather than as a fourth position.

4 seats are vacant as of the snapshot, drawn as an empty outline: Chicoutimi—Le Fjord (QC), Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot—Acton (QC), Beaches—East York (ON), North Vancouver—Capilano (BC). A vacancy is kept distinct from a member who did not vote; collapsing the two would overstate absence by exactly the number of empty seats. One of them, Beaches—East York, has its own page on this site.

Reading order is sourced, not invented. Provinces run in the official Statistics Canada geographical order — east to west, then the three territories — and ridings run alphabetically inside each. No ordering on this page carries a judgement.

Party colour is identity only. Display values are raised in lightness from the parties’ official brand values so that none is louder than another on a dark ground, and they are read out of this site’s stylesheet at build time rather than retyped here. Both are printed below.

The encoding. Each division carries one string of 343 characters, one per seat, in the fixed order the grid is drawn in. Y yea · N nay · P paired · A no vote recorded · . seat vacant that day. It is the smallest honest encoding and the easiest one to check by hand: the whole page is in the JSON at the bottom of this document.

The three queries, in full:

SELECT r.id, r.name_en, r.province, r.edid,
       COALESCE(p.short_name_en,''), COALESCE(pol.name,''), COALESCE(pol.slug,'')
FROM core_riding r
LEFT JOIN core_electedmember m ON m.riding_id = r.id AND m.end_date IS NULL
LEFT JOIN core_party p ON p.id = m.party_id
LEFT JOIN core_politician pol ON pol.id = m.politician_id
WHERE r.current
ORDER BY r.province, r.name_en

;

SELECT vq.id, vq.number, vq.date::text, vq.result, vq.yea_total, vq.nay_total,
       vq.paired_total, COALESCE(b.number_only::text,''), COALESCE(b.number,''),
       replace(replace(vq.description_en, E'\t', ' '), E'\n', ' ')
FROM bills_votequestion vq
LEFT JOIN bills_bill b ON b.id = vq.bill_id
WHERE vq.session_id = '45-1'
ORDER BY vq.date, vq.number

;

SELECT vq.id, em.riding_id, mv.vote, mv.dissent
FROM bills_membervote mv
JOIN bills_votequestion vq ON vq.id = mv.votequestion_id
JOIN core_electedmember em ON em.id = mv.member_id
WHERE vq.session_id = '45-1'