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John Rafferty

Member of Parliament for Thunder Bay—Rainy River, Ontario, from 2008 to 2015. NDP. Cast 1,335 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line 3 times.

ballots cast1,335791 yea · 544 nay against party line30.22% of cast hansard statements1,3482008–2015 elections62 won

Service

RidingProvincePartyFromTo
Thunder Bay—Rainy RiverONNDP2008-11-182015-10-19

Ballots cast by year

One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where John Rafferty 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.

387020082015
The axis starts at zero. The division record runs 2006-05-08 to 2026-06-18.

Against the party line

Every recorded division where John Rafferty 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.

DateVotePartyDivision
2011-11-01YeaNDPC-19 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security.
2012-02-07YeaNDPC-19 · That Bill C-19, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Firearms Act, {as amended}, be concurred in at report stage [with a further amendment/with further amendments] .
2012-02-15YeaNDPC-19 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass.

Elections

DateRidingPartyVotesShareResult
2000-11-27Thunder Bay—Superior North (ON)NDP6,16919.48%not elected
2004-06-28Thunder Bay—Rainy River (ON)NDP10,78129.70%not elected
2006-01-23Thunder Bay—Rainy River (ON)NDP12,86233.42%not elected
2008-10-14Thunder Bay—Rainy River (ON)NDP14,47840.32%elected
2011-05-02Thunder Bay—Rainy River (ON)NDP18,08548.70%elected
2015-10-19Thunder Bay—Rainy River (ON)NDP12,48329.70%not elected

Method

A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (255 here) and pairings (0) 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.