David Aitken, former Representative from Michigan's 6th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1895-1897	Representative	Michigan's 6^th District
1893-1895	Representative	Michigan's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Aug 1893 to Mar 1897, Aitken missed 372 of 530 roll call votes, which is 70.2%. 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
1893 Aug-Nov	66	40	60.6%	82^nd
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	106	79.7%	77^th
1894 Apr-Jul	101	69	68.3%	80^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	14	70.0%	87^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	29	60.4%	94^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	18	6	33.3%	76^th
1896 Mar-May	54	45	83.3%	96^th
1896 Jun-Jun	28	28	100.0%	91^st
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	35	56.5%	80^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