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Mauril Bélanger

Member of Parliament for Ottawa—Vanier, Ontario, from 1994 to 2016. Liberal. Cast 1,741 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line 8 times.

ballots cast1,7411,071 yea · 670 nay against party line80.46% of cast hansard statements6,3901995–2016 elections88 won

Service

RidingProvincePartyFromTo
Ottawa—VanierONLiberal1994-01-172016-08-16

Ballots cast by year

One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where Mauril Bélanger 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.

457020062016
The axis starts at zero. The division record runs 2006-05-08 to 2026-06-18.

Against the party line

Every recorded division where Mauril Bélanger voted against the majority of their own caucus — all 8 of them, in full, because a count without its list is a claim and not a record.

DateVotePartyDivision
2007-02-27NayLiberalThat the 13th Report of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, presented on Wednesday, February 7, 2007, be concurred in.
2008-02-05NayLiberalC-25 · That this question be now put.
2009-04-22NayLiberalC-268 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.
2010-04-21YeaLiberalC-384 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.
2015-02-04NayLiberalC-518 · That Bill C-518, An Act to amend the Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act (withdrawal allowance), as amended, be concurred in at report stage [with a further amendment/with further amendments].
2015-02-04NayLiberalC-518 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass.
2015-02-16YeaLiberalThat the motion be amended by deleting all of the words after the word “House” and substituting the following: “recognize the necessity of fully integrated security throughout the Parliamentary precinct and the grounds of Parliament Hill, as recommended by the Auditor General in his 2012 report and as exists in other peer legislatures; and call on the Speaker, in coordination with his counterpart in the Senate, to prepare and execute, without delay, plans to fully integrate the work of all partners providing operational security throughout the Parliamentary precinct and the grounds of Parliament Hill, while respecting the privileges, immunities and powers of the respective Houses, including the ultimate authority of the Speakers of the Senate and House of Commons over access and security of Parliament and ensuring the continued employment of our existing and respected Parliamentary Security staff, whose exemplary work on October 22, 2014, quickly brought an end to the security threat on Parliament Hill.”.
2015-06-17NayLiberalThat the 21st Report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, presented on Friday, October 3, 2014, be concurred in.

Elections

DateRidingPartyVotesShareResult
1995-02-13 by-electionOttawa—Vanier (ON)Liberal11,91860.06%elected
1997-06-02Ottawa—Vanier (ON)Liberal30,72861.87%elected
2000-11-27Ottawa—Vanier (ON)Liberal26,74955.57%elected
2004-06-28Ottawa—Vanier (ON)Liberal25,95249.17%elected
2006-01-23Ottawa—Vanier (ON)Liberal23,56742.31%elected
2008-10-14Ottawa—Vanier (ON)Liberal23,94846.20%elected
2011-05-02Ottawa—Vanier (ON)Liberal20,00938.20%elected
2015-10-19Ottawa—Vanier (ON)Liberal36,47457.60%elected

Method

A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (325 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.