Joseph Ransdell, former Senator from Louisiana

Dates	Title	Representing
1925-1931	Senator	Louisiana
1913-1925	Senator	Louisiana
1907-1913	Representative	Louisiana's 5^th District
1905-1907	Representative	Louisiana's 5^th District
1903-1905	Representative	Louisiana's 5^th District
1901-1903	Representative	Louisiana's 5^th District
1899-1901	Representative	Louisiana's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1913 to Mar 1931, Ransdell missed 890 of 3,491 roll call votes, which is 25.5%. This is worse than the median of 19.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1931. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1913 Apr-Jul	38	4	10.5%	24^th
1913 Aug-Nov	108	21	19.4%	65^th
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	58	3	5.2%	18^th
1914 Mar-May	58	16	27.6%	47^th
1914 Jun-Aug	119	22	18.5%	35^th
1914 Sep-Oct	59	10	16.9%	41^st
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	117	28	23.9%	59^th
1913 Mar-Mar	5	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	40	8	20.0%	69^th
1916 Mar-May	105	19	18.1%	44^th
1916 Jun-Aug	87	18	20.7%	50^th
1916 Sep-Sep	13	1	7.7%	44^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	157	45	28.7%	76^th
1917 Apr-Jun	60	11	18.3%	58^th
1917 Jul-Sep	102	4	3.9%	17^th
1917 Oct-Oct	10	10	100.0%	88^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	34	2	5.9%	25^th
1918 Mar-May	53	17	32.1%	56^th
1918 Jun-Aug	42	3	7.1%	20^th
1918 Sep-Nov	19	10	52.6%	88^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	53	16	30.2%	64^th
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1919 May-Jul	31	10	32.3%	94^th
1919 Aug-Oct	31	5	16.1%	56^th
1919 Nov-Nov	78	1	1.3%	31^st
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	53	14	26.4%	39^th
1920 Mar-May	101	20	19.8%	48^th
1920 Jun-Jun	19	1	5.3%	12^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	87	10	11.5%	35^th
1921 Apr-Jun	61	24	39.3%	95^th
1921 Jul-Sep	38	23	60.5%	79^th
1921 Oct-Nov	76	47	61.8%	87^th
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	38	19	50.0%	88^th
1922 Mar-May	193	106	54.9%	83^rd
1922 Jun-Aug	215	59	27.4%	50^th
1922 Sep-Sep	15	3	20.0%	38^th
1922 Nov-Nov	13	5	38.5%	71^st
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	71	16	22.5%	42^nd
1921 Mar-Mar	1	1	100.0%	69^th
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	29	8	27.6%	87^th
1924 Mar-May	84	26	31.0%	87^th
1924 Jun-Jun	17	3	17.6%	83^rd
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	76	10	13.2%	54^th
1926 Jan-Feb	59	8	13.6%	61^st
1926 Mar-May	45	9	20.0%	63^rd
1926 Jun-Jul	33	9	27.3%	82^nd
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	74	21	28.4%	84^th
1925 Mar-Mar	11	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	115	49	42.6%	95^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	64	15	23.4%	58^th
1929 May-Jun	36	4	11.1%	56^th
1929 Sep-Sep	8	1	12.5%	47^th
1929 Oct-Nov	53	7	13.2%	50^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	99	28	28.3%	80^th
1930 Mar-May	138	31	22.5%	53^rd
1930 Jun-Jul	23	3	13.0%	30^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	60	19	31.7%	74^th
1930 Jul-Jul	7	7	100.0%	74^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