LaVar Payne
Member of Parliament for Medicine Hat, Alberta, from 2008 to 2015. Conservative. Cast 1,486 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line 3 times.
Service
| Riding | Province | Party | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine Hat | AB | Conservative | 2008-11-18 | 2015-10-19 |
Ballots cast by year
One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where LaVar Payne 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 LaVar Payne 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.
| Date | Vote | Party | Division |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-06-06 | Yea | Conservative | That, in the opinion of the House, the governor general should exercise the same financial discipline that the government is asking of the public, and that the government should make the governor general’s salary subject to the general tax regime. |
| 2012-06-13 | Yea | Conservative | That the Standing Committee on Finance be instructed to undertake a study on income inequality in Canada and that this study include, but not be limited to, (i) a review of Canada’s federal and provincial systems of personal income taxation and income supports, (ii) an examination of best practices that reduce income inequality and improve GDP per capita, (iii) the identification of any significant gaps in the federal system of taxation and income support that contribute to income inequality, as well as any significant disincentives to paid work in the formal economy that may exist as part of a “welfare trap”, (iv) recommendations on how best to improve the equality of opportunity and prosperity for all Canadians; and that the Committee report its findings to the House within one year of the adoption of this motion. |
| 2015-02-25 | Nay | Conservative | C-586 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. |
Elections
| Date | Riding | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-10-14 | Medicine Hat (AB) | Conservative | 26,950 | 70.87% | elected |
| 2011-05-02 | Medicine Hat (AB) | Conservative | 30,719 | 71.50% | elected |
Method
A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (83 here) and pairings (21) 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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