Joel Pritchard, former Representative from Washington's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1973-1984	Representative	Washington's 1^st District

Sponsorship Analysis

Pritchard was a centrist Republican follower according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Pritchard’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Pritchard to other members of the House of Representatives in the 98^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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Voting Record

From Jan 1973 to Oct 1984, Pritchard missed 964 of 6,833 roll call votes, which is 14.1%. This is worse than the median of 6.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1984. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1973 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	29^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	9	4.8%	30^th
1973 Jul-Sep	129	5	3.9%	48^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	2	1.1%	15^th
1974 Jan-Mar	76	5	6.6%	42^nd
1974 Apr-Jun	169	11	6.5%	39^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	19	12.8%	87^th
1974 Oct-Dec	140	40	28.6%	94^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	4	5.9%	54^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	45	22.6%	97^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	11	7.5%	65^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	15	7.9%	71^st
1976 Jan-Mar	106	1	0.9%	18^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	13	4.9%	27^th
1976 Jul-Sep	280	7	2.5%	23^rd
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	9	9.0%	73^rd
1977 Apr-Jun	271	36	13.3%	83^rd
1977 Jul-Sep	197	25	12.7%	84^th
1977 Oct-Dec	133	15	11.3%	78^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	11	7.4%	55^th
1978 Apr-Jun	298	58	19.5%	87^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	42	13.6%	76^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	2	2.7%	23^rd
1979 Jan-Mar	61	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	34	15.5%	88^th
1979 Jul-Sep	196	21	10.7%	74^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	29	15.3%	80^th
1980 Jan-Mar	147	51	34.7%	97^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	19	9.7%	61^st
1980 Jul-Sep	192	31	16.1%	87^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	6	9.0%	47^th
1981 Jan-Mar	13	2	15.4%	84^th
1981 Apr-Jun	88	8	9.1%	68^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	13	12.3%	85^th
1981 Oct-Dec	137	31	22.6%	95^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	7	14.6%	74^th
1982 Apr-Jun	118	5	4.2%	57^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	34	17.6%	91^st
1982 Oct-Dec	99	12	12.1%	67^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	9	20.9%	89^th
1983 Apr-Jun	181	33	18.2%	94^th
1983 Jul-Sep	129	36	27.9%	99^th
1983 Oct-Nov	141	96	68.1%	100^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	3	5.7%	46^th
1984 Apr-Jun	222	35	15.8%	89^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	58	61.1%	99^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	5	13.9%	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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Joel Pritchard [R-WA1, 1973-1984] leaves office as Representative for Washington's 1st congressional district

Oct 12, 1984

Elections and Offices

Rep. Joel Pritchard [R-WA1, 1973-1984] takes office as Representative for Washington's 1st congressional district

Jan 03, 1973

Rep. Joel Pritchard

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices