Jacob Kunkel, former Representative from Maryland's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1859-1861	Representative	Maryland's 5^th District
1857-1859	Representative	Maryland's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1857 to Mar 1861, Kunkel missed 471 of 976 roll call votes, which is 48.3%. This is worse than the median of 23.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1861. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	103	27	26.2%	75^th
1858 Mar-May	177	65	36.7%	84^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	20	29.4%	55^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	121	62.1%	97^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	38	55.1%	96^th
1860 Mar-May	126	84	66.7%	93^rd
1860 Jun-Jun	97	65	67.0%	90^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	51	36.2%	73^rd

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