René Arseneault
Member of Parliament for Madawaska—Restigouche, New Brunswick, from 2015 to 2025. Liberal. Cast 2,291 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line 9 times.
Service
| Riding | Province | Party | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madawaska—Restigouche | NB | Liberal | 2015-10-19 | 2025-04-28 |
Ballots cast by year
One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where René Arseneault 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 René Arseneault voted against the majority of their own caucus — all 9 of them, in full, because a count without its list is a claim and not a record.
| Date | Vote | Party | Division |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-02-22 | Nay | Liberal | That, given Canada and Israel share a long history of friendship as well as economic and diplomatic relations, the House reject the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which promotes the demonization and delegitimization of the State of Israel, and call upon the government to condemn any and all attempts by Canadian organizations, groups or individuals to promote the BDS movement, both here at home and abroad. |
| 2016-05-30 | Yea | Liberal | C-14 · Vote No. 65, session 42-1 — no description in the source dump |
| 2016-05-30 | Yea | Liberal | C-14 · “Health, no later than 45 days after the day” |
| 2016-05-30 | Yea | Liberal | C-14 · Vote No. 68, session 42-1 — no description in the source dump |
| 2016-12-06 | Yea | Liberal | C-245 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities. |
| 2017-02-08 | Yea | Liberal | C-274 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Finance. |
| 2017-10-25 | Yea | Liberal | C-203 · 2nd reading of Bill C-203, An Act to amend the Supreme Court Act (understanding the official languages) |
| 2021-05-12 | Yea | Liberal | C-208 · 3rd reading and adoption of Bill C-208, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (transfer of small business or family farm or fishing corporation) |
| 2024-10-02 | Yea | Liberal | Opposition Motion (Request for a royal recommendation for Bill C-319) |
Elections
| Date | Riding | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-19 | Madawaska—Restigouche (NB) | Liberal | 20,778 | 55.70% | elected |
| 2019-10-21 | Madawaska—Restigouche (NB) | Liberal | 17,331 | 50.30% | elected |
| 2021-09-20 | Madawaska—Restigouche (NB) | Liberal | 16,854 | 55.18% | elected |
Method
A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (227 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.
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