This is a single
vote resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
This is a single
vote resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
What we call votes are divisions in official Parliamentary lingo. We refer to an individual person's vote as a ballot.
{
"bill_url": "/bills/39-2/C-5/",
"session": "39-2",
"number": 99,
"date": "2008-05-06",
"description": {
"en": "That Bill C-5, in Clause 66, be amended by deleting lines 7 to 9 on page 19.",
"fr": ""
},
"result": "Failed",
"yea_total": 25,
"nay_total": 240,
"paired_total": 12,
"context_statement": "/debates/2008/5/6/procedural-11/",
"party_votes": [
{
"vote": "No",
"disagreement": 0.0,
"party": {
"name": {
"en": "Conservative Party of Canada"
},
"short_name": {
"en": "Conservative"
}
}
},
{
"vote": "Yes",
"disagreement": 0.0,
"party": {
"name": {
"en": "New Democratic Party"
},
"short_name": {
"en": "NDP"
}
}
},
{
"vote": "No",
"disagreement": 0.0,
"party": {
"name": {
"en": "Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois"
},
"short_name": {
"en": "Bloc"
}
}
},
{
"vote": "No",
"disagreement": 0.0,
"party": {
"name": {
"en": "Liberal Party of Canada"
},
"short_name": {
"en": "Liberal"
}
}
}
],
"url": "/votes/39-2/99/",
"related": {
"ballots_url": "/votes/ballots/?vote=%2Fvotes%2F39-2%2F99%2F",
"votes_url": "/votes/"
}
}