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Rob Anders

Member of Parliament for Calgary West, Alberta, from 1997 to 2015. Conservative. Cast 1,823 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line 3 times.

ballots cast1,823867 yea · 956 nay against party line30.16% of cast hansard statements3,2301997–2015 elections66 won

Service

RidingProvincePartyFromTo
Calgary WestABReform1997-09-222000-10-22
Calgary WestABCanadian Alliance2001-01-292004-05-23
Calgary WestABConservative2004-10-042011-03-26
Calgary WestABConservative2011-05-022015-10-19

Ballots cast by year

One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where Rob Anders 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.

462020062015
The axis starts at zero. The division record runs 2006-05-08 to 2026-06-18.

Against the party line

Every recorded division where Rob Anders voted against the majority of their own caucus — all 3 of them, in full, because a count without its list is a claim and not a record.

DateVotePartyDivision
2008-03-12NayConservativeThat, in the opinion of the House, the government should stand consistently against the death penalty as a matter of principle, both in Canada and around the world.
2009-05-13NayConservativeC-273 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology.
2014-02-26YeaConservativeC-461 · That Bill C-461, in Clause 4, be amended by replacing lines 4 to 20 on page 2 with the following: “(iii) the total annual monetary income of the individual, including any performance bonus, as well as the job classification and responsibilities of the position held by the individual, and any additional responsibilities given to the individual, if that income is equal to or greater than the sessional allowance — within the meaning of the Parliament of Canada Act — payable to a member of Parliament, (iii.1) the salary range of the position held by the individual, as well as the classification and responsibilities of that position, if the individual's total annual monetary income, including any performance bonus, is less than the sessional allowance — within the meaning of the Parliament of Canada Act — payable to a member of Parliament, (iii.2) the expenses incurred by the individual in the course of employment for which the individual has been reimbursed by the government institution,”

Elections

DateRidingPartyVotesShareResult
1997-06-02Calgary West (AB)Reform24,87847.20%elected
2000-11-27Calgary West (AB)Canadian Alliance33,22254.05%elected
2004-06-28Calgary West (AB)Conservative31,32255.90%elected
2006-01-23Calgary West (AB)Conservative38,02058.71%elected
2008-10-14Calgary West (AB)Conservative34,57957.36%elected
2011-05-02Calgary West (AB)Conservative39,99662.20%elected

Method

A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (138 here) and pairings (2) 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.