James Boggs, former Senator from Delaware

Dates	Title	Representing
1961-1972	Senator	Delaware
1947-1952	Representative	Delaware's At-Large District

Voting Record

From Jan 1961 to Oct 1972, Boggs missed 204 of 3,589 roll call votes, which is 5.7%. This is better than the median of 11.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1972. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1961 Jan-Apr	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	136	1	0.7%	19^th
1961 Sep-Sep	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	55^th
1962 Apr-Jun	62	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	120	3	2.5%	26^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	1	5.6%	63^rd
1963 Jan-Mar	8	2	25.0%	81^st
1963 Apr-Jun	71	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	56	4	7.1%	48^th
1963 Oct-Dec	84	3	3.6%	27^th
1964 Jan-Mar	59	2	3.4%	55^th
1964 Apr-Jun	136	6	4.4%	82^nd
1964 Jul-Sep	105	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	31	6	19.4%	75^th
1965 Apr-Jun	104	8	7.7%	39^th
1965 Jul-Sep	103	7	6.8%	56^th
1965 Oct-Oct	13	3	23.1%	66^th
1966 Jan-Mar	28	3	10.7%	55^th
1966 Apr-Jun	50	4	8.0%	21^st
1966 Jul-Sep	117	2	1.7%	12^th
1966 Oct-Oct	35	2	5.7%	15^th
1967 Jan-Mar	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	69	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	110	4	3.6%	10^th
1968 Jan-Mar	68	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	90	7	7.8%	21^st
1968 Jul-Sep	89	2	2.2%	5^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	17	1	5.9%	56^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Oct-Dec	151	8	5.3%	20^th
1970 Jan-Mar	96	3	3.1%	19^th
1970 Apr-Jun	91	2	2.2%	11^th
1970 Jul-Sep	116	11	9.5%	25^th
1970 Oct-Dec	103	3	2.9%	11^th
1971 Feb-Mar	24	1	4.2%	31^st
1971 Apr-Jun	87	9	10.3%	33^rd
1971 Jul-Sep	109	7	6.4%	23^rd
1971 Oct-Dec	200	19	9.5%	44^th
1972 Jan-Mar	119	9	7.6%	33^rd
1972 Apr-Jun	129	5	3.9%	15^th
1972 Jul-Sep	203	30	14.8%	62^nd
1972 Oct-Oct	71	25	35.2%	76^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo