Joseph Scranton, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 11th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1895-1897	Representative	Pennsylvania's 11^th District
1893-1895	Representative	Pennsylvania's 11^th District
1889-1891	Representative	Pennsylvania's 11^th District
1885-1887	Representative	Pennsylvania's 12^th District
1881-1883	Representative	Pennsylvania's 12^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1881 to Mar 1897, Scranton missed 767 of 1,751 roll call votes, which is 43.8%. This is worse than the median of 36.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1897. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	74	19	25.7%	56^th
1882 Apr-Jul	166	53	31.9%	44^th
1882 Aug-Aug	7	7	100.0%	75^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	100	27	27.0%	65^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	36	7	19.4%	50^th
1886 Apr-Jul	155	39	25.2%	58^th
1886 Aug-Aug	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	103	16	15.5%	31^st
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	72	6	8.3%	32^nd
1890 Mar-May	108	25	23.1%	45^th
1890 Jun-Aug	169	125	74.0%	94^th
1890 Sep-Sep	53	29	54.7%	65^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	173	89	51.4%	85^th
1893 Aug-Nov	66	50	75.8%	96^th
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	112	84.2%	90^th
1894 Apr-Jul	101	95	94.1%	98^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	11	55.0%	70^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	17	35.4%	78^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	18	3	16.7%	41^st
1896 Mar-May	54	14	25.9%	26^th
1896 Jun-Jun	28	3	10.7%	12^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	61	20	32.8%	39^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