Aylett Cotton, former Representative from Iowa's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1873-1875	Representative	Iowa's 2^nd District
1871-1873	Representative	Iowa's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Mar 1871 to Mar 1875, Cotton missed 177 of 985 roll call votes, which is 18.0%. This is better than the median of 22.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1875. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1871 Mar-Apr	85	6	7.1%	28^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	89	6	6.7%	15^th
1872 Mar-May	156	29	18.6%	28^th
1872 Jun-Jun	35	4	11.4%	23^rd
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	150	23	15.3%	27^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	78	12	15.4%	47^th
1874 Mar-May	101	16	15.8%	37^th
1874 Jun-Jun	59	16	27.1%	61^st
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	232	65	28.0%	57^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000