Charles Burke, former Representative from South Dakota's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1913-1915	Representative	South Dakota's 2^nd District
1909-1913	Representative	South Dakota
1905-1907	Representative	South Dakota
1903-1905	Representative	South Dakota
1901-1903	Representative	South Dakota
1899-1901	Representative	South Dakota

Voting Record

From Dec 1899 to Mar 1915, Burke missed 286 of 1,269 roll call votes, which is 22.5%. This is better than the median of 31.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1915. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	19	5	26.3%	40^th
1900 Mar-May	49	8	16.3%	20^th
1900 Jun-Jun	16	1	6.3%	24^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	62	13	21.0%	33^rd
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1902 Mar-May	22	7	31.8%	54^th
1902 Jun-Jul	28	8	28.6%	42^nd
Dec 1902-Mar 1903	113	12	10.6%	17^th
1903 Nov-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	6	12.2%	21^st
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	3	9.4%	15^th
Dec 1905-Feb 1906	25	7	28.0%	64^th
1906 Mar-May	57	39	68.4%	87^th
1906 Jun-Jun	20	7	35.0%	59^th
Dec 1906-Mar 1907	28	1	3.6%	22^nd
1909 Mar-Aug	35	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1909-Feb 1910	18	1	5.6%	21^st
1910 Mar-May	60	7	11.7%	28^th
1910 Jun-Jun	18	8	44.4%	82^nd
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	65	6	9.2%	25^th
1911 Apr-Aug	45	4	8.9%	29^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	58	5	8.6%	16^th
1912 Apr-Jul	57	27	47.4%	74^th
1912 Aug-Aug	29	7	24.1%	40^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	65	10	15.4%	33^rd
1913 Apr-Jul	21	4	19.0%	29^th
1913 Aug-Nov	43	40	93.0%	94^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	24	16	66.7%	94^th
1914 Mar-May	34	12	35.3%	69^th
1914 Jun-Aug	60	5	8.3%	11^th
1914 Sep-Oct	29	14	48.3%	59^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	66	3	4.5%	10^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