James Rajotte
Member of Parliament for Edmonton—Leduc, Alberta, from 2001 to 2015. Conservative. Cast 1,840 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line 7 times.
Service
| Riding | Province | Party | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edmonton Southwest | AB | Canadian Alliance | 2001-01-29 | 2004-05-23 |
| Edmonton—Leduc | AB | Conservative | 2004-10-04 | 2015-10-19 |
Ballots cast by year
One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where James Rajotte 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 James Rajotte 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-11-08 | Yea | Conservative | C-253 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Finance. |
| 2009-05-13 | Nay | Conservative | C-273 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology. |
| 2012-02-29 | Yea | Conservative | C-280 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Health. |
| 2013-03-27 | Yea | Conservative | C-380 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans. |
| 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. |
| 2014-09-30 | Yea | Conservative | That Standing Order 11(2) be replaced with the following: The Speaker or the Chair of Committees of the Whole, after having called the attention of the House, or of the Committee, to the conduct of a Member who persists in irrelevance, or repetition, including during responses to oral questions, may direct the Member to discontinue his or her intervention, and if then the Member still continues to speak, the Speaker shall name the Member or, if in Committee of the Whole, the Chair shall report the Member to the House. |
| 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]. |
Elections
| Date | Riding | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-11-27 | Edmonton Southwest (AB) | Canadian Alliance | 26,197 | 48.85% | elected |
| 2004-06-28 | Edmonton—Leduc (AB) | Conservative | 26,791 | 55.05% | elected |
| 2006-01-23 | Edmonton—Leduc (AB) | Conservative | 33,764 | 60.53% | elected |
| 2008-10-14 | Edmonton—Leduc (AB) | Conservative | 33,174 | 63.21% | elected |
| 2011-05-02 | Edmonton—Leduc (AB) | Conservative | 37,778 | 63.60% | elected |
Method
A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (103 here) and pairings (20) 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.