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Lee Richardson

Member of Parliament for Calgary Centre, Alberta, from 2004 to 2012. Conservative. Cast 907 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line 2 times.

ballots cast907433 yea · 474 nay against party line20.22% of cast hansard statements4,1162004–2012 elections54 won

Service

RidingProvincePartyFromTo
Calgary South CentreABConservative2004-10-042005-11-29
Calgary CentreABConservative2006-04-032012-06-06

Ballots cast by year

One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where Lee Richardson 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.

147020062012
The axis starts at zero. The division record runs 2006-05-08 to 2026-06-18.

Against the party line

Every recorded division where Lee Richardson voted against the majority of their own caucus — all 2 of them, in full, because a count without its list is a claim and not a record.

DateVotePartyDivision
2006-12-07NayConservativeThat this House call on the government to introduce legislation to restore the traditional definition of marriage without affecting civil unions and while respecting existing same-sex marriages.
2012-02-29YeaConservativeC-280 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Health.

Elections

DateRidingPartyVotesShareResult
1993-10-25Calgary Southeast (AB)Progressive Conservative11,28620.12%not elected
2004-06-28Calgary South Centre (AB)Conservative26,19251.16%elected
2006-01-23Calgary Centre (AB)Conservative30,21355.41%elected
2008-10-14Calgary Centre (AB)Conservative26,08555.60%elected
2011-05-02Calgary Centre (AB)Conservative28,40157.70%elected

Method

A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (75 here) and pairings (12) 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.