Fred Gilchrist, former Representative from Iowa's 6th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1943-1944	Representative	Iowa's 6^th District
1939-1942	Representative	Iowa's 8^th District
1937-1938	Representative	Iowa's 8^th District
1935-1936	Representative	Iowa's 8^th District
1933-1934	Representative	Iowa's 8^th District
1931-1933	Representative	Iowa's 10^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1931 to Dec 1944, Gilchrist missed 91 of 1,120 roll call votes, which is 8.1%. This is worse than the median of 4.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1944. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1932 Mar-May	38	1	2.6%	27^th
1932 Jun-Jul	28	1	3.6%	25^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1933 Mar-Jun	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1934 Jan-Jun	81	2	2.5%	14^th
1935 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Apr-Jun	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Jul-Aug	58	7	12.1%	81^st
1936 Jan-Jun	79	2	2.5%	11^th
1937 Jan-Mar	18	5	27.8%	89^th
1937 Apr-Jun	38	37	97.4%	100^th
1937 Jul-Aug	22	21	95.5%	98^th
1937 Dec-Dec	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1938 Jan-Jun	56	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Jan-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Apr-Jun	42	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Jul-Aug	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Oct-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	32	1	3.1%	53^rd
1940 Apr-Jun	52	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Oct-Dec	5	1	20.0%	94^th
1941 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jul-Aug	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Oct-Dec	15	2	13.3%	89^th
1942 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Apr-Jun	29	5	17.2%	97^th
1942 Jul-Sep	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Oct-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Apr-Jun	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Jul-Sep	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Oct-Dec	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	58^th
1944 Apr-Jun	31	1	3.2%	64^th
1944 Sep-Sep	3	3	100.0%	95^th
1944 Nov-Dec	7	1	14.3%	47^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