Jacob Yost, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1845-1847	Representative	Pennsylvania's 5^th District
1843-1845	Representative	Pennsylvania's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1843 to Mar 1847, Yost missed 325 of 1,224 roll call votes, which is 26.6%. This is worse than the median of 24.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1847. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	133	26	19.5%	61^st
1844 Mar-May	207	38	18.4%	42^nd
1844 Jun-Jun	76	21	27.6%	64^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	167	46	27.5%	74^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	149	40	26.8%	61^st
1846 Apr-Jul	263	94	35.7%	72^nd
1846 Aug-Aug	51	17	33.3%	69^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	178	43	24.2%	43^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