John Tarsney, former Representative from Missouri's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1895-1897	Representative	Missouri's 5^th District
1893-1895	Representative	Missouri's 5^th District
1891-1893	Representative	Missouri's 5^th District
1889-1891	Representative	Missouri's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1889 to Feb 1896, Tarsney missed 481 of 1,256 roll call votes, which is 38.3%. This is worse than the median of 36.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Feb 1896. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	70	33	47.1%	74^th
1890 Mar-May	109	15	13.8%	20^th
1890 Jun-Aug	168	85	50.6%	69^th
1890 Sep-Sep	53	24	45.3%	52^nd
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	173	62	35.8%	64^th
Dec 1891-Mar 1892	56	21	37.5%	61^st
1892 Apr-Jul	159	29	18.2%	11^th
1892 Aug-Aug	4	1	25.0%	48^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	79	48	60.8%	87^th
1893 Aug-Nov	67	9	13.4%	17^th
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	97	72.9%	62^nd
1894 Apr-Jul	101	35	34.7%	32^nd
1894 Aug-Aug	20	7	35.0%	30^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	10	20.8%	48^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	16	5	31.3%	76^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