Rep. Herbert Burke

Former Representative from Florida's 12^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1973-1978	Representative	Florida's 12^th District
1967-1972	Representative	Florida's 10^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Burke was a moderate Republican follower according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Burke’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Burke to other members of the House of Representatives in the 95^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 1967 to Oct 1978, Burke missed 672 of 5,346 roll call votes, which is 12.6%. This is worse than the median of 8.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	96	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jul-Sep	85	2	2.4%	64^th
1968 Oct-Oct	22	8	36.4%	99^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	1	6.3%	58^th
1969 Apr-Jun	27	2	7.4%	53^rd
1969 Jul-Sep	45	2	4.4%	29^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	1	1.1%	11^th
1970 Jan-Mar	32	1	3.1%	35^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	10	13.5%	39^th
1970 Jul-Sep	75	11	14.7%	65^th
1970 Oct-Dec	74	25	33.8%	91^st
1971 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	58^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	5	5.6%	20^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	4	5.6%	37^th
1971 Oct-Dec	133	9	6.8%	32^nd
1972 Jan-Mar	64	5	7.8%	46^th
1972 Apr-Jun	110	39	35.5%	93^rd
1972 Jul-Sep	100	3	3.0%	22^nd
1972 Oct-Oct	49	13	26.5%	75^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	8	22.2%	85^th
1973 Apr-Jun	188	22	11.7%	70^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	16	12.3%	80^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	17	9.4%	66^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	14	18.2%	90^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	20	11.8%	60^th
1974 Jul-Sep	146	8	5.5%	57^th
1974 Oct-Dec	140	37	26.4%	92^nd
1975 Jan-Mar	68	9	13.2%	81^st
1975 Apr-Jun	197	27	13.7%	85^th
1975 Jul-Sep	136	36	26.5%	98^th
1975 Oct-Dec	171	90	52.6%	99^th
1976 Jan-Mar	105	8	7.6%	62^nd
1976 Apr-Jun	265	24	9.1%	54^th
1976 Jul-Sep	276	13	4.7%	43^rd
1976 Oct-Oct	7	7	100.0%	93^rd
1977 Jan-Mar	99	1	1.0%	23^rd
1977 Apr-Jun	270	15	5.6%	43^rd
1977 Jul-Sep	195	8	4.1%	43^rd
1977 Oct-Dec	133	11	8.3%	64^th
1978 Jan-Mar	147	25	17.0%	84^th
1978 Apr-Jun	297	4	1.3%	9^th
1978 Jul-Sep	306	85	27.8%	89^th
1978 Oct-Oct	73	24	32.9%	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. Herbert Burke [R-FL12, 1973-1978] leaves office as Representative for Florida's 12th congressional district

Oct 15, 1978

Elections and Offices

Rep. Herbert Burke [R-FL12, 1973-1978] takes office as Representative for Florida's 12th congressional district

Jan 03, 1973

Elections and Offices

Rep. Herbert Burke [R-FL12, 1973-1978] leaves office as Representative for Florida's 10th congressional district

Oct 18, 1972

Elections and Offices

Rep. Herbert Burke [R-FL12, 1973-1978] takes office as Representative for Florida's 10th congressional district

Jan 10, 1967