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/42-1/C-81/",
"session": "42-1",
"number": 959,
"date": "2018-11-27",
"description": {
"en": "Bill C-81, An Act to ensure a barrier-free Canada (recommittal to a committee)",
"fr": "Projet de loi C-81, Loi visant \u00e0 faire du Canada un pays exempt d'obstacles (nouveau renvoi \u00e0 un comit\u00e9)"
},
"result": "Failed",
"yea_total": 115,
"nay_total": 163,
"paired_total": 0,
"context_statement": "/debates/2018/11/27/procedural-15/",
"party_votes": [
{
"vote": "Yes",
"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"
}
}
},
{
"vote": "Yes",
"disagreement": 0.0,
"party": {
"name": {
"en": "Green Party of Canada"
},
"short_name": {
"en": "Green"
}
}
}
],
"url": "/votes/42-1/959/",
"related": {
"ballots_url": "/votes/ballots/?vote=%2Fvotes%2F42-1%2F959%2F",
"votes_url": "/votes/"
}
}