Charles Boatner, former Representative from Louisiana's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1895-1897	Representative	Louisiana's 5^th District
1893-1895	Representative	Louisiana's 5^th District
1891-1893	Representative	Louisiana's 5^th District
1889-1891	Representative	Louisiana's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1889 to Mar 1897, Boatner missed 586 of 1,324 roll call votes, which is 44.3%. This is worse 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
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	74	31	41.9%	63^rd
1890 Mar-May	107	41	38.3%	80^th
1890 Jun-Aug	166	102	61.4%	78^th
1890 Sep-Sep	52	39	75.0%	77^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	173	83	48.0%	79^th
Dec 1891-Mar 1892	57	36	63.2%	93^rd
1892 Apr-Jul	158	75	47.5%	62^nd
1892 Aug-Aug	4	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	78	22	28.2%	41^st
1893 Aug-Nov	66	20	30.3%	36^th
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	36	27.1%	31^st
1894 Apr-Jul	101	36	35.6%	33^rd
1894 Aug-Aug	20	7	35.0%	30^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	15	31.3%	71^st
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	18	8	44.4%	90^th
1896 Mar-May	8	4	50.0%	68^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	61	31	50.8%	72^nd

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