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Every affiliation event this project holds, verified and unverified alike. The unit is the event: a caucus that moved together is one row with several participants. Each row states how well dated it is, how well evidenced it is, and whether it meets the publication standard.
35 events, not people — 35 of 35 of the events matching these filters meet the publication standard
This list counts events, not people. A group event is one row here and several people in a person-based tally. Withdrawn records are excluded from this listing. Coverage report
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Carried to another party
A seat given to one party at an election, sitting under another party’s banner without an election in between. This is the floor-crossing figure, and it is the only figure that may be published under that name.
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Left a caucus for the crossbench
The member left a caucus and sat as an independent. No party gained the seat. This figure has its own headline and is never added to the one beside it — adding the two is the single error this whole classification exists to prevent.
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Joined a party from the crossbench
Counted toward neither headline above. The outbound leg of the same episode is already in the crossbench figure, so counting the return as well would count one person twice. Whether the voters were asked in between is the interesting question, and it is answered separately below.
These two figures are never summed. A seat carried to another party and a member who left a caucus for the crossbench are different acts, and a total that merges them answers no question anybody asked.
Measured over the records these filters admit, not over the whole database. The record-wide figures are on the coverage report. This selects RECORDS holding at least one participation of the class asked for, and each matching record still lists all of its people — so a group record where nine members crossed and one left for the crossbench matches either filter, and shows all ten either way. To count acts rather than records, read the figures above, which count people.
Every leg below states where the seat went: to another party, or out of a caucus to the crossbench. The two are counted separately and never share a total. The tally beside each is for the events on this page only, not for the record as a whole.
Why these are counted apart, and what the project believes about it
Youri Chassin left the Coalition Avenir Québec caucus on September 12, 2024, and began sitting as an Independent. The cited sources support the affiliation and exact date; motive is not…
CTF-E-000283Brendan Maguire changed from Liberal to Progressive Conservative and was sworn as Minister of Community Services on February 22, 2024. Same-day timing is observed; causation is not…
CTF-E-000087Amanda Simard joined the Ontario Liberal Party from Independent status on January 16, 2020. This is the second of two affiliation stages, after leaving the Progressive Conservatives in 2018.
CTF-E-000084Amanda Simard left the Progressive Conservative caucus and began sitting as an Independent on November 29, 2018. She did not join the Ontario Liberal Party until January 16, 2020.
CTF-E-000278David Emerson changed from Liberal to Conservative and entered Cabinet on February 6, 2006. The Ethics Commissioner found no Code breach and no special inducement while recognizing the…
CTF-E-000073House roles record a Conservative-to-Liberal affiliation change and ministerial service beginning May 17, 2005. The Prime Minister’s statement explicitly linked the announced switch and…
CTF-E-000072Gilles Roch changed from Progressive Conservative to Liberal while serving as an MLA on September 8, 1988. His earlier party-support change before the 1986 election was not a floor…
CTF-E-000277Group event
One event in which several members moved together. It counts as ONE event with several participants, never as several separate crossings.
Garde Gardom, Pat McGeer, and Allan Williams joined Social Credit from Independent status on September 30, 1975. Their earlier May departures from the Liberal caucus remain distinct…
CTF-E-000161The record places Frank Calder’s NDP-to-Social Credit change in 1975. His earlier NDP cabinet service is prior-office history, not an outcome conferred for this change.
CTF-E-000059Hugh Curtis changed from the Progressive Conservatives to Social Credit on October 25, 1974. He won the following general election before entering Cabinet; the sequence does not establish…
CTF-E-000160René Lévesque left the Quebec Liberal Party and sat as an Independent on October 14, 1967. His later party leadership, two election defeats, 1976 victory, and premiership are recorded as…
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