Charles Bell, former Representative from Texas's 8th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1895-1897	Representative	Texas's 8^th District
1893-1895	Representative	Texas's 8^th District

Voting Record

From Aug 1893 to Mar 1897, Bell missed 91 of 530 roll call votes, which is 17.2%. This is better than the median of 36.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1897. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1893 Aug-Nov	67	6	9.0%	10^th
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	5	3.8%	8^th
1894 Apr-Jul	101	12	11.9%	14^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	5	25.0%	14^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	15	31.3%	71^st
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	17	3	17.6%	50^th
1896 Mar-May	54	17	31.5%	37^th
1896 Jun-Jun	28	6	21.4%	32^nd
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	22	35.5%	43^rd

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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo