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Paul Steckle

Member of Parliament for Huron—Bruce, Ontario, from 1994 to 2008. Liberal. Cast 248 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line once.

ballots cast248174 yea · 74 nay against party line10.40% of cast hansard statements9311994–2008 elections55 won

Service

RidingProvincePartyFromTo
Huron—BruceONLiberal1994-01-172008-09-07

Ballots cast by year

One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where Paul Steckle 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.

109020062008
The axis starts at zero. The division record runs 2006-05-08 to 2026-06-18.

Against the party line

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

DateVotePartyDivision
2006-12-07YeaLiberalThat 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.

Elections

DateRidingPartyVotesShareResult
1993-10-25Huron—Bruce (ON)Liberal21,62943.79%elected
1997-06-02Huron—Bruce (ON)Liberal24,24051.35%elected
2000-11-27Huron—Bruce (ON)Liberal21,54749.91%elected
2004-06-28Huron—Bruce (ON)Liberal25,53849.79%elected
2006-01-23Huron—Bruce (ON)Liberal21,26039.84%elected

Method

A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (125 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.