Blaine Calkinssitting
Member of Parliament for Ponoka—Didsbury, Alberta, since 2006. Conservative. Cast 3,923 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line 4 times.
Service
| Riding | Province | Party | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wetaskiwin | AB | Conservative | 2006-04-03 | 2015-10-19 |
| Red Deer—Lacombe | AB | Conservative | 2015-10-19 | 2025-04-28 |
| Ponoka—Didsbury | AB | Conservative | 2025-04-28 | sitting |
Ballots cast by year
One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where Blaine Calkins voted yea or nay. Absences and pairings are not ballots and are not drawn. Votes against the party line, if any, are the lit slice at the base of the bar.
Against the party line
Every recorded division where Blaine Calkins voted against the majority of their own caucus — all 4 of them, in full, because a count without its list is a claim and not a record.
| Date | Vote | Party | Division |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-03-12 | Nay | Conservative | That, in the opinion of the House, the government should stand consistently against the death penalty as a matter of principle, both in Canada and around the world. |
| 2010-12-01 | Nay | Conservative | C-473 · That Bill C-473, An Act to protect insignia of military orders, decorations and medals of cultural significance for future generations, as amended, be concurred in at report stage. |
| 2011-03-09 | Nay | Conservative | C-473 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. |
| 2012-06-06 | Yea | Conservative | C-273 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. |
Elections
| Date | Riding | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-01-23 | Wetaskiwin (AB) | Conservative | 35,776 | 75.15% | elected |
| 2008-10-14 | Wetaskiwin (AB) | Conservative | 32,528 | 77.14% | elected |
| 2011-05-02 | Wetaskiwin (AB) | Conservative | 37,756 | 81.40% | elected |
| 2015-10-19 | Red Deer—Lacombe (AB) | Conservative | 43,599 | 70.70% | elected |
| 2019-10-21 | Red Deer—Lacombe (AB) | Conservative | 53,843 | 79.80% | elected |
| 2021-09-20 | Red Deer—Lacombe (AB) | Conservative | 39,805 | 64.22% | elected |
| 2025-04-28 | Ponoka—Didsbury (AB) | Conservative | 56,106 | 81.80% | elected |
Contact
blaine.calkins@parl.gc.ca · 613-995-8886
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Method
A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (715 here) and pairings (16) are recorded but are not votes, and every rate on this page divides by ballots cast, never by divisions held.
A dissent is a caucus dissent. Ballots cast while sitting as an Independent are never counted as dissents — an Independent has no party line to defy. The source dump flags 61 such ballots anyway; this site excludes them, and documents the artefact in correction 0001.
The record has edges. Memberships and Hansard begin 1994-01-17; recorded divisions begin 2006-05-08. A member who served before that date shows zero ballots because the record starts there, not because they never voted.
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