Donald Mitchell, former Representative from New York's 31st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1973-1982	Representative	New York's 31^st District

Sponsorship Analysis

Mitchell was a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Mitchell’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Mitchell to other members of the House of Representatives in the 97^th 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 1973 to Dec 1982, Mitchell missed 342 of 5,933 roll call votes, which is 5.8%. This is better than the median of 7.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1973 Jan-Mar	35	2	5.7%	55^th
1973 Apr-Jun	186	19	10.2%	67^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	11	8.5%	72^nd
1973 Oct-Dec	180	10	5.6%	44^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	2	2.6%	21^st
1974 Apr-Jun	169	4	2.4%	11^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Oct-Dec	140	12	8.6%	50^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	5	7.4%	62^nd
1975 Apr-Jun	198	5	2.5%	28^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	6	4.1%	41^st
1975 Oct-Dec	191	11	5.8%	60^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	5	4.7%	46^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	9	3.4%	18^th
1976 Jul-Sep	280	12	4.3%	40^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	3	3.0%	33^rd
1977 Apr-Jun	273	5	1.8%	16^th
1977 Jul-Sep	196	8	4.1%	47^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	7	5.2%	48^th
1978 Jan-Mar	146	8	5.5%	42^nd
1978 Apr-Jun	298	10	3.4%	24^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	26	8.4%	59^th
1978 Oct-Oct	74	4	5.4%	59^th
1979 Jan-Mar	61	2	3.3%	57^th
1979 Apr-Jun	219	13	5.9%	46^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	10	5.1%	43^rd
1979 Oct-Dec	189	6	3.2%	21^st
1980 Jan-Mar	148	15	10.1%	60^th
1980 Apr-Jun	195	8	4.1%	28^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	10	5.2%	39^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	5	7.5%	42^nd
1981 Jan-Mar	15	2	13.3%	73^rd
1981 Apr-Jun	88	16	18.2%	87^th
1981 Jul-Sep	104	4	3.8%	47^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	4	2.8%	21^st
1982 Feb-Mar	48	2	4.2%	37^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	10	8.4%	69^th
1982 Jul-Sep	192	18	9.4%	65^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	33	33.3%	89^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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Donald Mitchell [R-NY31, 1973-1982] leaves office as Representative for New York's 31st congressional district

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Rep. Donald Mitchell [R-NY31, 1973-1982] takes office as Representative for New York's 31st congressional district

Jan 03, 1973

Rep. Donald Mitchell

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices