David Seymour, former Representative from New York's 12th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1851-1853	Representative	New York's 12^th District
1843-1845	Representative	New York's 12^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1843 to Mar 1853, Seymour missed 199 of 1,036 roll call votes, which is 19.2%. This is better than the median of 26.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1853. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	134	8	6.0%	23^rd
1844 Mar-May	207	60	29.0%	73^rd
1844 Jun-Jun	76	9	11.8%	12^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	167	38	22.8%	50^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	96	8	8.3%	12^th
1852 Apr-Jul	178	29	16.3%	20^th
1852 Aug-Aug	64	9	14.1%	21^st
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	38	33.3%	56^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