Isaac Holmes, former Representative from South Carolina's 6th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1849-1851	Representative	South Carolina's 6^th District
1847-1849	Representative	South Carolina's 6^th District
1845-1847	Representative	South Carolina's 6^th District
1843-1845	Representative	South Carolina's 6^th District
1839-1843	Representative	South Carolina's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1839 to Mar 1851, Holmes missed 2,087 of 3,978 roll call votes, which is 52.5%. This is worse than the median of 21.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1851. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	165	81	49.1%	80^th
1840 Mar-May	250	164	65.6%	90^th
1840 Jun-Jul	207	134	64.7%	89^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	79	64.2%	86^th
1841 May-Sep	260	101	38.8%	70^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	204	102	50.0%	86^th
1842 Apr-Jul	216	113	52.3%	82^nd
1842 Aug-Aug	116	47	40.5%	90^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	172	94	54.7%	91^st
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	134	57	42.5%	84^th
1844 Mar-May	207	85	41.1%	81^st
1844 Jun-Jun	76	29	38.2%	81^st
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	167	84	50.3%	89^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	147	82	55.8%	96^th
1846 Apr-Jul	263	132	50.2%	89^th
1846 Aug-Aug	51	22	43.1%	81^st
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	178	112	62.9%	91^st
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	96	62	64.6%	96^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	83	55.0%	90^th
1848 Aug-Aug	70	41	58.6%	88^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	84	54.2%	97^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	108	55	50.9%	94^th
1850 Mar-May	68	55	80.9%	96^th
1850 Jun-Aug	146	76	52.1%	92^nd
1850 Sep-Sep	115	42	36.5%	77^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	71	53.4%	95^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