Gerald Keddy
Member of Parliament for South Shore—St. Margaret's, Nova Scotia, from 1997 to 2015. Conservative. Cast 1,828 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line 12 times.
Service
| Riding | Province | Party | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Shore | NS | Progressive Conservative | 1997-09-22 | 2004-05-23 |
| South Shore—St. Margaret's | NS | Conservative | 2004-10-04 | 2015-10-19 |
Ballots cast by year
One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where Gerald Keddy 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 Gerald Keddy voted against the majority of their own caucus — all 12 of them, in full, because a count without its list is a claim and not a record.
| Date | Vote | Party | Division |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-11-22 | Yea | Conservative | C-284 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities. |
| 2006-12-07 | Nay | Conservative | That this House call on the government to introduce legislation to restore the traditional definition of marriage without affecting civil unions and while respecting existing same-sex marriages. |
| 2010-12-08 | Yea | Conservative | C-389 · That Bill C-389, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity and gender expression), be concurred in at report stage. |
| 2011-02-09 | Yea | Conservative | C-389 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. |
| 2012-06-06 | Yea | Conservative | C-279 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. |
| 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. |
| 2015-02-04 | Nay | Conservative | C-518 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. |
| 2015-02-04 | Nay | Conservative | C-518 · That Bill C-518, An Act to amend the Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act (withdrawal allowance), as amended, be concurred in at report stage [with a further amendment/with further amendments]. |
| 2015-04-29 | Yea | Conservative | C-624 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. |
Elections
| Date | Riding | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-06-02 | South Shore (NS) | Progressive Conservative | 14,136 | 36.00% | elected |
| 2000-11-27 | South Shore (NS) | Progressive Conservative | 14,328 | 39.69% | elected |
| 2004-06-28 | South Shore—St. Margaret's (NS) | Conservative | 14,954 | 37.90% | elected |
| 2006-01-23 | South Shore—St. Margaret's (NS) | Conservative | 15,108 | 36.85% | elected |
| 2008-10-14 | South Shore—St. Margaret's (NS) | Conservative | 14,388 | 35.99% | elected |
| 2011-05-02 | South Shore—St. Margaret's (NS) | Conservative | 17,948 | 43.10% | elected |
Method
A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (108 here) and pairings (27) 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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