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Joe Preston

Member of Parliament for Elgin—Middlesex—London, Ontario, from 2004 to 2015. Conservative. Cast 1,914 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line once.

ballots cast1,914927 yea · 987 nay against party line10.05% of cast hansard statements9,3712004–2015 elections44 won

Service

RidingProvincePartyFromTo
Elgin—Middlesex—LondonONConservative2004-10-042015-10-19

Ballots cast by year

One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where Joe Preston 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.

473020062015
The axis starts at zero. The division record runs 2006-05-08 to 2026-06-18.

Against the party line

Every recorded division where Joe Preston voted against the majority of their own caucus — all one of them, in full, because a count without its list is a claim and not a record.

DateVotePartyDivision
2011-03-09YeaConservativeC-501 · That Bill C-501, An Act to amend the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and other Acts (pension protection), as amended, be concurred in at report stage.

Elections

DateRidingPartyVotesShareResult
2004-06-28Elgin—Middlesex—London (ON)Conservative20,33343.84%elected
2006-01-23Elgin—Middlesex—London (ON)Conservative23,41645.62%elected
2008-10-14Elgin—Middlesex—London (ON)Conservative22,97048.39%elected
2011-05-02Elgin—Middlesex—London (ON)Conservative29,14757.50%elected

Method

A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (45 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.