Ira Copley, former Representative from Illinois's 11th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1915-1923	Representative	Illinois's 11^th District
1911-1915	Representative	Illinois's 11^th District

Voting Record

From Apr 1911 to Mar 1923, Copley missed 923 of 1,614 roll call votes, which is 57.2%. This is worse than the median of 25.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1923. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1911 Apr-Aug	46	7	15.2%	47^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	58	37	63.8%	87^th
1912 Apr-Jul	56	25	44.6%	70^th
1912 Aug-Aug	29	19	65.5%	70^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	59	26	44.1%	78^th
1913 Apr-Jul	21	14	66.7%	70^th
1913 Aug-Nov	43	34	79.1%	84^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	22	7	31.8%	79^th
1914 Mar-May	34	27	79.4%	98^th
1914 Jun-Aug	60	56	93.3%	96^th
1914 Sep-Oct	29	22	75.9%	92^nd
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	66	40	60.6%	91^st
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	15	4	26.7%	79^th
1916 Mar-May	45	12	26.7%	82^nd
1916 Jun-Aug	23	12	52.2%	87^th
1916 Sep-Sep	3	3	100.0%	71^st
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	59	22	37.3%	93^rd
1917 Apr-Jun	36	10	27.8%	84^th
1917 Jul-Sep	10	8	80.0%	92^nd
1917 Oct-Oct	3	3	100.0%	77^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	33	17	51.5%	93^rd
1918 Mar-May	63	34	54.0%	92^nd
1918 Jun-Aug	33	27	81.8%	97^th
1918 Sep-Oct	13	12	92.3%	92^nd
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	63	23	36.5%	81^st
1919 May-Jul	60	30	50.0%	87^th
1919 Aug-Oct	51	32	62.7%	85^th
1919 Nov-Nov	16	4	25.0%	47^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	39	13	33.3%	71^st
1920 Mar-May	70	31	44.3%	81^st
1920 Jun-Jun	8	8	100.0%	86^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	92	54	58.7%	94^th
1921 Apr-Jun	57	36	63.2%	94^th
1921 Jul-Aug	48	28	58.3%	88^th
1921 Oct-Nov	29	29	100.0%	97^th
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	48	18	37.5%	66^th
1922 Mar-May	47	35	74.5%	95^th
1922 Jun-Aug	53	53	100.0%	95^th
1922 Sep-Sep	10	10	100.0%	83^rd
1922 Nov-Nov	5	3	60.0%	88^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	59	38	64.4%	84^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