James Sinclair, former Representative from North Dakota's -1th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1933-1934	Representative	North Dakota
1931-1933	Representative	North Dakota's 3^rd District
1927-1931	Representative	North Dakota's 3^rd District
1925-1927	Representative	North Dakota's 3^rd District
1923-1925	Representative	North Dakota's 3^rd District
1919-1923	Representative	North Dakota's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From May 1919 to Jun 1934, Sinclair missed 215 of 1,390 roll call votes, which is 15.5%. This is worse than the median of 10.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1934. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1919 May-Jul	61	20	32.8%	69^th
1919 Aug-Oct	51	26	51.0%	78^th
1919 Nov-Nov	15	15	100.0%	95^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	39	5	12.8%	26^th
1920 Mar-May	70	5	7.1%	17^th
1920 Jun-Jun	8	6	75.0%	79^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	92	9	9.8%	31^st
1921 Apr-Jun	57	7	12.3%	40^th
1921 Jul-Aug	48	6	12.5%	39^th
1921 Oct-Nov	27	20	74.1%	93^rd
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	48	5	10.4%	20^th
1922 Mar-May	47	1	2.1%	3^rd
1922 Jun-Aug	46	43	93.5%	93^rd
1922 Sep-Sep	12	2	16.7%	41^st
1922 Nov-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	59	2	3.4%	10^th
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	22	1	4.5%	78^th
1924 Mar-May	85	7	8.2%	50^th
1924 Jun-Jun	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	54	2	3.7%	46^th
Dec 1925-Feb 1926	21	1	4.8%	58^th
1926 Mar-May	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1926 Jun-Jul	18	6	33.3%	95^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	33	1	3.0%	48^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	53	3	5.7%	28^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	18	2	11.1%	28^th
1929 Apr-Jun	12	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	8	1	12.5%	27^th
1930 Mar-May	26	1	3.8%	16^th
1930 Jun-Jul	16	11	68.8%	94^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	33	1	3.0%	16^th
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1932 Mar-May	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1932 Jun-Jul	30	3	10.0%	32^nd
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	37	1	2.7%	14^th
1933 Mar-Jun	59	1	1.7%	57^th
1934 Jan-Jun	80	1	1.3%	9^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