Don Colton, former Representative from Utah's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1931-1933	Representative	Utah's 1^st District
1927-1931	Representative	Utah's 1^st District
1925-1927	Representative	Utah's 1^st District
1923-1925	Representative	Utah's 1^st District
1921-1923	Representative	Utah's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Apr 1921 to Mar 1933, Colton missed 84 of 937 roll call votes, which is 9.0%. This is better than the median of 13.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1933. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1921 Apr-Jun	57	4	7.0%	33^rd
1921 Jul-Aug	48	4	8.3%	28^th
1921 Oct-Nov	29	3	10.3%	33^rd
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	48	10	20.8%	46^th
1922 Mar-May	47	3	6.4%	17^th
1922 Jun-Aug	52	26	50.0%	66^th
1922 Sep-Sep	12	5	41.7%	71^st
1922 Nov-Nov	5	1	20.0%	70^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	59	7	11.9%	29^th
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1924 Mar-May	82	1	1.2%	15^th
1924 Jun-Jun	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	54	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1925-Feb 1926	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1926 Mar-May	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1926 Jun-Jul	22	1	4.5%	37^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	33	4	12.1%	81^st
Dec 1927-May 1928	53	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	18	1	5.6%	16^th
1929 Apr-Jun	12	3	25.0%	86^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	8	2	25.0%	53^rd
1930 Mar-May	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1930 Jun-Jul	21	2	9.5%	32^nd
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	33	1	3.0%	16^th
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	16	1	6.3%	41^st
1932 Mar-May	38	2	5.3%	36^th
1932 Jun-Jul	30	2	6.7%	24^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	36	1	2.8%	21^st

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