Davis Elkins, former Senator from West Virginia

Dates	Title	Representing
1919-1925	Senator	West Virginia
1911-1911	Senator	West Virginia

Voting Record

From Jan 1911 to Mar 1925, Elkins missed 743 of 1,337 roll call votes, which is 55.6%. This is worse than the median of 21.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1925. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	3	3	100.0%	94^th
1919 May-Jul	31	4	12.9%	20^th
1919 Aug-Oct	31	11	35.5%	86^th
1919 Nov-Nov	78	5	6.4%	57^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	53	19	35.8%	56^th
1920 Mar-May	101	23	22.8%	54^th
1920 Jun-Jun	19	12	63.2%	77^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	84	28	33.3%	77^th
1921 Apr-Jun	59	19	32.2%	84^th
1921 Jul-Sep	32	27	84.4%	95^th
1921 Oct-Nov	88	67	76.1%	93^rd
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	38	13	34.2%	66^th
1922 Mar-May	196	73	37.2%	57^th
1922 Jun-Aug	208	197	94.7%	95^th
1922 Sep-Sep	12	12	100.0%	81^st
1922 Nov-Nov	13	6	46.2%	69^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	67	60	89.6%	99^th
1921 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	52	14	26.9%	78^th
1924 Mar-May	81	63	77.8%	94^th
1924 Jun-Jun	18	18	100.0%	97^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	72	69	95.8%	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