Rep. David Martin

Former Representative from New York's 26^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1983-1992	Representative	New York's 26^th District
1981-1982	Representative	New York's 30^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Martin was a moderate Republican follower according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Martin’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Martin to other members of the House of Representatives in the 102^nd Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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Voting Record

From Jan 1981 to Oct 1992, Martin missed 497 of 5,369 roll call votes, which is 9.3%. This is worse than the median of 4.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	4	4.5%	39^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	8	7.5%	70^th
1981 Oct-Dec	141	28	19.9%	93^rd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	6	5.0%	57^th
1982 Jul-Sep	192	22	11.5%	79^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	12	12.1%	68^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	11	25.6%	95^th
1983 Apr-Jun	179	25	14.0%	87^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	3	2.3%	36^th
1983 Oct-Nov	141	23	16.3%	93^rd
1984 Jan-Mar	53	4	7.5%	58^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	25	11.2%	78^th
1984 Jul-Sep	94	13	13.8%	89^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	1	2.8%	29^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	3	8.3%	53^rd
1985 Apr-Jun	154	18	11.7%	90^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	7	6.9%	70^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	10	6.8%	73^rd
1986 Jan-Mar	61	4	6.6%	50^th
1986 Apr-Jun	125	8	6.4%	76^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	22	10.9%	89^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	10	16.7%	90^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	1	2.6%	38^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	20	10.7%	86^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	6	6.3%	71^st
1987 Oct-Dec	167	13	7.8%	61^st
1988 Feb-Mar	49	6	12.2%	82^nd
1988 Apr-Jun	161	16	9.9%	86^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	3	2.0%	27^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	7	7.9%	74^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	4	3.8%	54^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	11	8.6%	91^st
1989 Oct-Nov	121	8	6.6%	69^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	7	4.7%	64^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	14	7.7%	85^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	5	3.5%	50^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	3	4.8%	64^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	35	25.2%	98^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	7	8.6%	76^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	4	2.5%	47^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	23	12.4%	85^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	33	16.8%	88^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	4	9.8%	73^rd

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. David Martin [R-NY26, 1983-1992] leaves office as Representative for New York's 26th congressional district

Oct 09, 1992

Elections and Offices

Rep. David Martin [R-NY26, 1983-1992] takes office as Representative for New York's 26th congressional district

Jan 03, 1983

Elections and Offices

Rep. David Martin [R-NY26, 1983-1992] leaves office as Representative for New York's 30th congressional district

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Rep. David Martin [R-NY26, 1983-1992] takes office as Representative for New York's 30th congressional district

Jan 05, 1981