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Blake Richardssitting

Member of Parliament for Airdrie—Cochrane, Alberta, since 2008. Conservative. Cast 3,672 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line 6 times.

ballots cast3,6721,744 yea · 1,928 nay against party line60.16% of cast hansard statements6,9042008–2026 elections66 won

Service

RidingProvincePartyFromTo
Wild RoseABConservative2008-11-182015-10-19
Banff—AirdrieABConservative2015-10-192025-04-28
Airdrie—CochraneABConservative2025-04-28sitting

Ballots cast by year

One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where Blake Richards 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.

472020082026
The axis starts at zero. The division record runs 2006-05-08 to 2026-06-18.

Against the party line

Every recorded division where Blake Richards voted against the majority of their own caucus — all 6 of them, in full, because a count without its list is a claim and not a record.

DateVotePartyDivision
2010-12-01NayConservativeC-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.
2011-03-09NayConservativeC-473 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass.
2012-02-08YeaConservativeC-306 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.
2017-02-22NayConservativeC-18 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass.
2017-05-03YeaConservativeC-308 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage.
2022-05-18YeaConservativeMotion to proceed to Orders of the Day

Elections

DateRidingPartyVotesShareResult
2008-10-14Wild Rose (AB)Conservative36,86972.92%elected
2011-05-02Wild Rose (AB)Conservative43,66974.70%elected
2015-10-19Banff—Airdrie (AB)Conservative42,22863.40%elected
2019-10-21Banff—Airdrie (AB)Conservative55,50471.10%elected
2021-09-20Banff—Airdrie (AB)Conservative43,67756.73%elected
2025-04-28Airdrie—Cochrane (AB)Conservative50,25271.20%elected

Contact

blake.richards@parl.gc.ca · 613-996-5152
As published in the parliamentary record. A sitting member’s office is public infrastructure; a former member’s is not, so this section exists only on sitting members’ pages.

Method

A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (599 here) and pairings (10) 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.

Alphabetical, not ranked. The directory sorts by family name. This site does not rank, score, or grade people.