John Covode, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 21st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1867-1871	Representative	Pennsylvania's 21^st District
1861-1863	Representative	Pennsylvania's 19^th District
1859-1861	Representative	Pennsylvania's 19^th District
1857-1859	Representative	Pennsylvania's 19^th District
1855-1857	Representative	Pennsylvania's 19^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1855 to Jan 1871, Covode missed 1,125 of 3,399 roll call votes, which is 33.1%. This is worse than the median of 24.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1871. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	174	76	43.7%	82^nd
1856 Apr-Jul	200	74	37.0%	64^th
1856 Aug-Aug	73	7	9.6%	36^th
1856 Aug-Aug	44	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	229	42	18.3%	64^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	98	7	7.1%	32^nd
1858 Mar-May	179	24	13.4%	33^rd
1858 Jun-Jun	68	24	35.3%	67^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	35	17.9%	61^st
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	23	33.3%	95^th
1860 Mar-May	126	25	19.8%	57^th
1860 Jun-Jun	97	42	43.3%	68^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	49	34.8%	81^st
1861 Jul-Aug	50	11	22.0%	62^nd
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	74	42	56.8%	91^st
1862 Mar-May	113	62	54.9%	87^th
1862 Jun-Jul	122	59	48.4%	79^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	269	178	66.2%	91^st
1867 Mar-Mar	61	11	18.0%	53^rd
1867 Jul-Jul	35	4	11.4%	37^th
1867 Nov-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	140	42	30.0%	78^th
1868 Mar-May	125	40	32.0%	47^th
1868 Jun-Jul	150	34	22.7%	36^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	1	100.0%	51^st
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	197	65	33.0%	71^st
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	16	11	68.8%	97^th
1870 Mar-May	150	47	31.3%	61^st
1870 Jun-Jul	168	68	40.5%	81^st
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	30	22	73.3%	98^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