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Member record/Richmond East—Steveston · BC/Layer 1 — verifiable fact/Built 2026-08-13

Parm Bainssitting

Member of Parliament for Richmond East—Steveston, British Columbia, since 2021. Liberal. Cast 1,072 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line 2 times.

ballots cast1,072700 yea · 372 nay against party line20.19% of cast hansard statements1,6732021–2026 elections22 won

Service

RidingProvincePartyFromTo
Steveston—Richmond EastBCLiberal2021-09-202025-04-28
Richmond East—StevestonBCLiberal2025-04-28sitting

Ballots cast by year

One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where Parm Bains 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.

365020212026
The axis starts at zero. The division record runs 2006-05-08 to 2026-06-18.

Against the party line

Every recorded division where Parm Bains 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
2022-06-22NayLiberalC-228 · 2nd reading of Bill C-228, An Act to amend the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and the Pension Benefits Standards Act, 1985
2023-12-13YeaLiberalS-210 · 2nd reading of Bill S-210, An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to sexually explicit material

Elections

DateRidingPartyVotesShareResult
2021-09-20Steveston—Richmond East (BC)Liberal16,54342.47%elected
2025-04-28Richmond East—Steveston (BC)Liberal25,70548.40%elected

Contact

parm.bains@parl.gc.ca · 613-992-1385
As published in the parliamentary record. A sitting member’s office is public infrastructure; a former member’s is not, so this section exists only on sitting members’ pages.

Method

A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (29 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.