James Rajotte

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James Rajotte, BA, MA, (born August 19, 1970 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian politician.

Rajotte is currently a member of the Conservative Party of Canada in the Canadian House of Commons, he represented the riding of Edmonton Southwest from 2000 to 2004. In the 2004 federal election he was elected in the newly-created riding of Edmonton-Leduc. He was re-elected in Edmonton-Leduc in the 2006 election. He was first elected as a Canadian Alliance MP in 2000, and was also one of four Alliance MPs who agreed to sit with the Progressive Conservative caucus after the December 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.

[edit] Electoral record

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	James Rajotte	26,791	55.04%		$54,847
	Liberal	Bruce King	14,269	29.31%		$46,445
	New Democratic Party	Doug McLachlan	4,581	9.41%		$7,563
	Green	Bruce Sinclair	3,029	6.22%		$107
Total valid votes			48,670	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			111	0.23%
Turnout			48,781	65.08%

Preceded by Ian McClelland	Member of Parliament for Edmonton Southwest 2000-2004	Succeeded by Riding abolished in 2004
Preceded by Riding created in 2004	Member of Parliament for Edmonton-Leduc 2004-	Succeeded by --

	Alberta Caucus serving in the 39th Canadian Parliament.
Senators	Tommy Banks (Lib), Joyce Fairbairn (Lib), Daniel Hays (Lib), Elaine McCoy (PC), Grant Mitchell (Lib), Claudette Tardif (Lib)
Members of Parliament	Diane Ablonczy (Con), Rona Ambrose (Con), Rob Anders (Con), Leon Benoit (Con), Blaine Calkins (Con), Rick Casson (Con), Ken Epp (Con), Peter Goldring (Con), Art Hanger (Con), Stephen Harper (Con), Laurie Hawn (Con), Rahim Jaffer (Con), Brian Jean (Con), Jason Kenney (Con), Mike Lake (Con), Ted Menzies (Con), Rob Merrifield (Con), Bob Mills (Con), Deepak Obhrai (Con), Jim Prentice (Con), James Rajotte (Con), Lee Richardson (Con), Monte Solberg (Con), Kevin Sorenson (Con), Brian Storseth (Con), Myron Thompson (Con), Chris Warkentin (Con), John Williams (Con)