Garry Breitkreuz
Member of Parliament for Yorkton—Melville, Saskatchewan, from 1994 to 2015. Conservative. Cast 1,736 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line 3 times.
Service
| Riding | Province | Party | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yorkton—Melville | SK | Reform | 1994-01-17 | 2000-10-22 |
| Yorkton—Melville | SK | Canadian Alliance | 2001-01-29 | 2004-05-23 |
| Yorkton—Melville | SK | Conservative | 2004-10-04 | 2015-10-19 |
Ballots cast by year
One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where Garry Breitkreuz 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 Garry Breitkreuz voted against the majority of their own caucus — all 3 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. |
| 2012-06-13 | Yea | Conservative | That the Standing Committee on Finance be instructed to undertake a study on income inequality in Canada and that this study include, but not be limited to, (i) a review of Canada’s federal and provincial systems of personal income taxation and income supports, (ii) an examination of best practices that reduce income inequality and improve GDP per capita, (iii) the identification of any significant gaps in the federal system of taxation and income support that contribute to income inequality, as well as any significant disincentives to paid work in the formal economy that may exist as part of a “welfare trap”, (iv) recommendations on how best to improve the equality of opportunity and prosperity for all Canadians; and that the Committee report its findings to the House within one year of the adoption of this motion. |
| 2014-01-29 | Yea | Conservative | That the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs be instructed to recommend changes to the Standing Orders and other conventions governing petitions so as to establish an electronic petitioning system that would enhance the current paper-based petitions system by allowing Canadians to sign petitions electronically, and to consider, among other things, (i) the possibility to trigger a debate in the House of Commons outside of current sitting hours when a certain threshold of signatures is reached, (ii) the necessity for no fewer than five Members of Parliament to sponsor the e-petition and to table it in the House once a time limit to collect signatures is reached, (iii) the study made in the 38th Parliament regarding e-petitions, and that the Committee report its findings to the House, with proposed changes to the Standing Orders and other conventions governing petitions, within 12 months of the adoption of this order. |
Elections
| Date | Riding | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993-10-25 | Yorkton—Melville (SK) | Reform | 10,595 | 32.70% | elected |
| 1997-06-02 | Yorkton—Melville (SK) | Reform | 17,216 | 50.07% | elected |
| 2000-11-27 | Yorkton—Melville (SK) | Canadian Alliance | 19,978 | 62.98% | elected |
| 2004-06-28 | Yorkton—Melville (SK) | Conservative | 19,940 | 62.94% | elected |
| 2006-01-23 | Yorkton—Melville (SK) | Conservative | 20,736 | 63.47% | elected |
| 2008-10-14 | Yorkton—Melville (SK) | Conservative | 19,824 | 68.03% | elected |
| 2011-05-02 | Yorkton—Melville (SK) | Conservative | 21,906 | 68.90% | elected |
Method
A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (206 here) and pairings (21) 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.