John Dow, former Representative from New York's 27th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1971-1972	Representative	New York's 27^th District
1965-1968	Representative	New York's 27^th District

Voting Record

From Jan 1965 to Oct 1972, Dow missed 152 of 1,495 roll call votes, which is 10.2%. This is worse than the median of 8.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1972. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1965 Jan-Mar	28	1	3.6%	30^th
1965 Apr-Jun	52	7	13.5%	71^st
1965 Jul-Sep	97	4	4.1%	36^th
1965 Oct-Oct	20	4	20.0%	74^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	1	3.3%	28^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	10	19.6%	76^th
1966 Jul-Sep	72	8	11.1%	44^th
1966 Oct-Oct	36	6	16.7%	45^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	51^st
1967 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	1	1.0%	77^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	78	1	1.3%	37^th
1968 Jul-Sep	90	3	3.3%	68^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	1	4.0%	36^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	32^nd
1971 Apr-Jun	90	23	25.6%	87^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	3	4.2%	27^th
1971 Oct-Dec	133	14	10.5%	43^rd
1972 Jan-Mar	64	6	9.4%	51^st
1972 Apr-Jun	111	8	7.2%	31^st
1972 Jul-Sep	100	18	18.0%	73^rd
1972 Oct-Oct	41	31	75.6%	95^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