Rep. John Seiberling

Former Representative from Ohio's 14^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1971-1986	Representative	Ohio's 14^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Seiberling was a far-left Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Seiberling’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Seiberling to other members of the House of Representatives in the 99^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 1971 to Oct 1986, Seiberling missed 438 of 8,387 roll call votes, which is 5.2%. This is better than the median of 5.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1986. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1971 Jan-Mar	22	3	13.6%	70^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	12	13.3%	57^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	7	9.7%	55^th
1971 Oct-Dec	133	7	5.3%	25^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	3	4.7%	33^rd
1972 Apr-Jun	113	13	11.5%	55^th
1972 Jul-Sep	100	17	17.0%	76^th
1972 Oct-Oct	49	7	14.3%	57^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	2	5.6%	47^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	1	0.5%	5^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	4	2.2%	19^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	5	6.5%	37^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	4	2.4%	10^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	3	2.0%	21^st
1974 Oct-Dec	141	3	2.1%	16^th
1975 Jan-Mar	65	4	6.2%	64^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	10	5.0%	46^th
1975 Jul-Sep	145	2	1.4%	20^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	4	2.1%	23^rd
1976 Jan-Mar	106	1	0.9%	18^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	6	2.2%	9^th
1976 Jul-Sep	280	3	1.1%	13^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	1	14.3%	69^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	1	1.0%	15^th
1977 Apr-Jun	272	16	5.9%	45^th
1977 Jul-Sep	197	20	10.2%	77^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	0	0.0%	0^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	5	3.4%	28^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	14	4.7%	34^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	14	4.5%	33^rd
1978 Oct-Oct	75	4	5.3%	48^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	11	5.0%	37^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	14	7.1%	61^st
1979 Oct-Dec	190	13	6.8%	36^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	6	4.1%	23^rd
1980 Apr-Jun	196	11	5.6%	39^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	7	3.6%	29^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	2	3.0%	20^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	47^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	2	2.2%	17^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	2	1.9%	28^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	11	7.7%	60^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	1	2.1%	24^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	4	3.4%	40^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	7	3.6%	32^nd
1982 Oct-Dec	99	10	10.1%	57^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	1	2.3%	17^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	3	1.6%	15^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	9	6.9%	73^rd
1983 Oct-Nov	143	9	6.3%	56^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	7	13.2%	75^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	4	1.8%	16^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	3	3.2%	37^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	1	2.8%	28^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	2	5.6%	35^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	40	26.0%	99^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	15	14.9%	91^st
1985 Oct-Dec	148	13	8.8%	77^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	8	13.1%	70^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	12	9.4%	80^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	8	4.0%	49^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	5	8.3%	68^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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. John Seiberling [D-OH14, 1971-1986] leaves office as Representative for Ohio's 14th congressional district

Oct 18, 1986

Elections and Offices

Rep. John Seiberling [D-OH14, 1971-1986] takes office as Representative for Ohio's 14th congressional district

Jan 21, 1971