Welcome to "How'd They Vote?"

Have you ever wondered how your member of parliament has been voting? We've made it easy for you to find out! Contained herein are many of the pivotal votes in the House of Commons, complete with voting history, dissension, attendance and speaking habits.

We hope you find what we've built here useful. If you have any comments or locate an error, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Last database update 2010-07-26

Ridings Overlay

2010-07-04 8:42 pm

The Find Your MP page now includes riding boundaries, in order to make finding your MP easier and more intuitive.

An explanation of how the tiles were generated has also been posted.


Unplanned Outage - June 8th 2010

2010-06-08 7:37 pm

Due to an unexpected hardware failure, How'd They Vote was unavailable for 9.5 hours today. We apologize for the inconvenience, as does Rackspace.


Postal Code Lookup Service added to the How'd They Vote API

2010-02-24 9:54 pm

New calls have been added to the How'd They Vote API, providing support for third-party tools and websites to offer "Find Your MP" and "Find Your Riding" services (see FindMember and FindRiding). This service was created by combining the freely available GeoGratis Federal Electoral Districts data with proprietary postal code data.

Examples are available, showing how to embed the lookup in a server-side PHP call.



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