Charles Faulkner, former Representative from Virginia's -1th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1875-1877	Representative	Virginia
1857-1859	Representative	Virginia's 8^th District
1855-1857	Representative	Virginia's 8^th District
1853-1855	Representative	Virginia's 8^th District
1851-1853	Representative	Virginia's 10^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1851 to Mar 1877, Faulkner missed 942 of 2,645 roll call votes, which is 35.6%. This is worse than the median of 25.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1877. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	96	39	40.6%	75^th
1852 Apr-Jul	178	76	42.7%	50^th
1852 Aug-Aug	63	18	28.6%	25^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	57	50.0%	75^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	112	23	20.5%	20^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	122	40.0%	40^th
1854 Aug-Aug	33	11	33.3%	60^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	44	28.4%	40^th
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	173	35	20.2%	50^th
1856 Apr-Jul	200	104	52.0%	63^rd
1856 Aug-Aug	73	19	26.0%	50^th
1856 Aug-Aug	44	6	13.6%	50^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	230	55	23.9%	63^rd
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	103	28	27.2%	82^nd
1858 Mar-May	178	67	37.6%	81^st
1858 Jun-Jun	68	21	30.9%	50^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	193	69	35.8%	63^rd
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	60	14	23.3%	64^th
1876 Apr-Jul	106	65	61.3%	90^th
1876 Aug-Aug	37	29	78.4%	80^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	124	40	32.3%	76^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo