Elijah Phister, former Representative from Kentucky's 10th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1881-1883	Representative	Kentucky's 10^th District
1879-1881	Representative	Kentucky's 10^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1879 to Mar 1883, Phister missed 282 of 781 roll call votes, which is 36.1%. This is worse than the median of 28.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1883. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1879 Mar-Jul	136	1	0.7%	3^rd
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	34	1	2.9%	6^th
1880 Mar-May	115	26	22.6%	30^th
1880 Jun-Jun	32	32	100.0%	94^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	119	28	23.5%	45^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	73	24	32.9%	61^st
1882 Apr-Jul	165	111	67.3%	84^th
1882 Aug-Aug	7	7	100.0%	73^rd
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	100	52	52.0%	87^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