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Member record/Kootenay—Columbia · BC/Layer 1 — verifiable fact/Built 2026-08-13

Jim Abbott

Member of Parliament for Kootenay—Columbia, British Columbia, from 1994 to 2011. Conservative. Cast 720 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line zero times.

ballots cast720334 yea · 386 nay against party line00.00% of cast hansard statements2,4761994–2011 elections66 won

Service

RidingProvincePartyFromTo
Kootenay EastBCReform1994-01-171997-04-27
Kootenay—ColumbiaBCReform1997-09-222000-10-22
Kootenay—ColumbiaBCCanadian Alliance2001-01-292004-05-23
Kootenay—ColumbiaBCConservative2004-10-042011-03-26

Ballots cast by year

One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where Jim Abbott 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.

152020062011
The axis starts at zero. The division record runs 2006-05-08 to 2026-06-18.

Elections

DateRidingPartyVotesShareResult
1993-10-25Kootenay East (BC)Reform16,88348.51%elected
1997-06-02Kootenay—Columbia (BC)Reform22,38761.91%elected
2000-11-27Kootenay—Columbia (BC)Canadian Alliance25,66367.78%elected
2004-06-28Kootenay—Columbia (BC)Conservative21,33652.02%elected
2006-01-23Kootenay—Columbia (BC)Conservative22,18154.36%elected
2008-10-14Kootenay—Columbia (BC)Conservative23,40259.59%elected

Method

A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (12 here) and pairings (4) 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.