Deepak Obhrai
Member of Parliament for Calgary Forest Lawn, Alberta, from 1997 to 2019. Conservative. Cast 2,003 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line 7 times.
Service
| Riding | Province | Party | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calgary East | AB | Reform | 1997-09-22 | 2000-10-22 |
| Calgary East | AB | Canadian Alliance | 2001-01-29 | 2004-05-23 |
| Calgary East | AB | Conservative | 2004-10-04 | 2015-10-19 |
| Calgary Forest Lawn | AB | Conservative | 2015-10-19 | 2019-08-02 |
Ballots cast by year
One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where Deepak Obhrai 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 Deepak Obhrai voted against the majority of their own caucus — all 7 of them, in full, because a count without its list is a claim and not a record.
| Date | Vote | Party | Division |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-03-20 | Yea | Conservative | C-279 · That Bill C-279, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity and gender expression), {as amended}, be concurred in at report stage [with a further amendment/with further amendments]. |
| 2013-03-20 | Yea | Conservative | C-279 · That Bill C-279, in Clause 1, be amended by adding after line 21 on page 1 the following: “(2) In this section, “gender identity” means, in respect of an individual, the individual’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex that the individual was assigned at birth.” |
| 2013-03-20 | Yea | Conservative | C-279 · That Bill C-279 be amended by replacing the long title on page 1 with the following: “An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity)” |
| 2013-03-20 | Yea | Conservative | C-279 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. |
| 2016-06-01 | Yea | Conservative | C-210 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. |
| 2016-06-15 | Yea | Conservative | C-210 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. |
| 2017-10-25 | Yea | Conservative | C-203 · 2nd reading of Bill C-203, An Act to amend the Supreme Court Act (understanding the official languages) |
Elections
| Date | Riding | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-06-02 | Calgary East (AB) | Reform | 13,348 | 44.98% | elected |
| 2000-11-27 | Calgary East (AB) | Canadian Alliance | 18,141 | 54.27% | elected |
| 2004-06-28 | Calgary East (AB) | Conservative | 21,897 | 61.12% | elected |
| 2006-01-23 | Calgary East (AB) | Conservative | 26,766 | 67.10% | elected |
| 2008-10-14 | Calgary East (AB) | Conservative | 21,311 | 66.47% | elected |
| 2011-05-02 | Calgary East (AB) | Conservative | 23,372 | 67.40% | elected |
| 2015-10-19 | Calgary Forest Lawn (AB) | Conservative | 19,694 | 48.00% | elected |
Method
A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (1,326 here) and pairings (13) 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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