- James Rajotte
Infobox CanadianMP
honorific-prefix =
name = James Rajotte
honorific-suffix =
MP
riding =Edmonton—Leduc
parliament = Canadian
term_start = 2004 federal election
term_end =
predecessor = "new riding"
successor =
riding2 =Edmonton Southwest
parliament2 = Canadian
term_start2 = 2000
term_end2 = 2004
predecessor2 =Ian McClelland
successor2 = "riding abolished"
birth_date = birth date and age|1970|8|19
birth_place = Edmonton,Alberta
death_date =
death_place =
party = Conservative
otherparty =Canadian Alliance (2000-2003)
spouse = single
residence = Edmonton
profession = Executive assistant, political researcher
footnotes =James Rajotte (born
August 19 ,1970 inEdmonton, Alberta ) is a Canadianpolitician .As a member of the
Conservative Party of Canada in theCanadian House of Commons , Rajotte is chair of Parliament's Standing Committee on Industry, Science, and Technology. He represented the riding ofEdmonton Southwest from 2000 to 2004. In the 2004 federal election he was elected in the newly-created riding ofEdmonton-Leduc . He was re-elected inEdmonton-Leduc in the 2006 election. He was first elected as aCanadian Alliance MP in 2000, and was also one of four Alliance MPs who agreed to sit with the Progressive Conservative caucus after theDecember 9 ,2003 creation of the Conservative Party, as the Alliance and Progressive Conservative parliamentary caucuses were not officially merged into a single caucus until a few weeks later.Rajotte is a former executive assistant and researcher. Rajotte was the CPC official opposition critic of Industry and also fulfilled the role of opposition critic of Science, Research and Development. His interests include classical music, classical literature and has studied classical texts extensively.
External links
* [http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=0fa70595-d7af-41f0-a0c9-4b7b8ebc1582&Language=E&Section=FederalExperience Parliament Webpage]
Electoral record
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ConservativeJames Rajotte
align="right"|26,791
align="right"|55.04%
align="right"
align="right"|$54,847
Liberal
Bruce King
align="right"|14,269
align="right"|29.31%
align="right"
align="right"|$46,445New Democratic Party
Doug McLachlan
align="right"|4,581
align="right"|9.41%
align="right"
align="right"|$7,563
Green
Bruce Sinclair
align="right"|3,029
align="right"|6.22%
align="right"
align="right"|$107
- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|48,670!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"
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- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|111!align="right"|0.23%!align="right"
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- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|48,781!align="right"|65.08%!align="right"
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