Elbridge Gerry, former Vice President

Dates	Title	Representing
1813-1814	Vice President
1791-1793	Representative	Massachusetts's 3^rd District
1789-1791	Representative	Massachusetts's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From May 1789 to Mar 1793, Gerry missed 31 of 211 roll call votes, which is 14.7%. This is worse than the median of 14.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1793. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1789 May-May	2	1	50.0%	56^th
1789 Jun-Aug	11	0	0.0%	0^th
1789 Sep-Sep	22	1	4.5%	31^st
1790 Feb-Mar	2	0	0.0%	0^th
1790 Apr-Jun	25	2	8.0%	48^th
1790 Jul-Aug	24	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1790-Mar 1791	23	5	21.7%	70^th
1791 Nov-Dec	7	1	14.3%	68^th
1792 Jan-Mar	34	13	38.2%	88^th
1792 Apr-May	20	3	15.0%	61^st
Nov 1792-Mar 1793	41	5	12.2%	42^nd

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