David Aiken, former Representative from South Carolina's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1885-1887	Representative	South Carolina's 3^rd District
1883-1885	Representative	South Carolina's 3^rd District
1881-1883	Representative	South Carolina's 3^rd District
1877-1881	Representative	South Carolina's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Oct 1877 to Mar 1887, Aiken missed 721 of 1,760 roll call votes, which is 41.0%. This is worse than the median of 28.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1887. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1877 Oct-Dec	33	14	42.4%	85^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	56	2	3.6%	7^th
1878 Mar-May	100	35	35.0%	88^th
1878 Jun-Jun	65	13	20.0%	59^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	111	7	6.3%	20^th
1879 Mar-Jul	124	18	14.5%	37^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	33	6	18.2%	47^th
1880 Mar-May	112	20	17.9%	24^th
1880 Jun-Jun	32	9	28.1%	39^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	118	27	22.9%	50^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	72	20	27.8%	60^th
1882 Apr-Jul	164	104	63.4%	81^st
1882 Aug-Aug	7	7	100.0%	78^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	99	35	35.4%	78^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	34	4	11.8%	33^rd
1884 Mar-May	70	5	7.1%	10^th
1884 Jun-Jul	83	36	43.4%	62^nd
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	146	58	39.7%	77^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	37	37	100.0%	99^th
1886 Apr-Jul	155	155	100.0%	100^th
1886 Aug-Aug	6	6	100.0%	80^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	103	103	100.0%	99^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