Karl Mundt, former Senator from South Dakota

Dates	Title	Representing
1961-1972	Senator	South Dakota
1948-1960	Senator	South Dakota
1939-1946	Representative	South Dakota's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Jan 1949 to Oct 1972, Mundt missed 1,508 of 5,473 roll call votes, which is 27.6%. This is worse than the median of 11.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1972. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1949 Jan-Mar	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	83	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jul-Sep	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Dec-Dec	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Mar	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Apr-Jun	70	1	1.4%	31^st
1951 Jul-Sep	93	1	1.1%	19^th
1951 Oct-Oct	15	3	20.0%	75^th
1952 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Apr-Jun	94	1	1.1%	25^th
1952 Jul-Jul	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jan-Mar	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Jul	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	44	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Sep	91	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Apr-Jun	37	2	5.4%	50^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	1	4.3%	57^th
1956 Jan-Mar	47	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	32	4	12.5%	93^rd
1957 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	43	3	7.0%	69^th
1957 Jul-Aug	46	1	2.2%	45^th
1958 Feb-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Apr-Jun	85	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jul-Aug	76	2	2.6%	56^th
1959 Jan-Apr	54	1	1.9%	56^th
1959 May-Aug	128	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	77	1	1.3%	4^th
1960 May-Aug	118	11	9.3%	77^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	30	1	3.3%	67^th
1961 May-Aug	136	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Sep-Sep	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	55^th
1962 Apr-Jun	62	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	122	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	70	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	83	1	1.2%	6^th
1964 Jan-Mar	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	136	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	105	3	2.9%	35^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	32	1	3.1%	9^th
1965 Apr-Jun	104	5	4.8%	25^th
1965 Jul-Sep	106	6	5.7%	42^nd
1965 Oct-Oct	14	6	42.9%	88^th
1966 Jan-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Apr-Jun	56	10	17.9%	65^th
1966 Jul-Sep	117	4	3.4%	29^th
1966 Oct-Oct	35	3	8.6%	29^th
1967 Jan-Mar	53	2	3.8%	11^th
1967 Apr-Jun	70	6	8.6%	44^th
1967 Jul-Sep	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	110	18	16.4%	55^th
1968 Jan-Mar	69	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	96	2	2.1%	7^th
1968 Jul-Sep	89	13	14.6%	55^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	2	4.5%	44^th
1969 Oct-Dec	152	112	73.7%	98^th
1970 Jan-Mar	75	75	100.0%	99^th
1970 Apr-Jun	76	76	100.0%	99^th
1970 Jul-Sep	103	103	100.0%	99^th
1970 Oct-Dec	84	84	100.0%	99^th
1971 Feb-Mar	22	22	100.0%	98^th
1971 Apr-Jun	81	81	100.0%	99^th
1971 Jul-Sep	108	108	100.0%	99^th
1971 Oct-Dec	202	202	100.0%	99^th
1972 Jan-Mar	119	119	100.0%	99^th
1972 Apr-Jun	129	129	100.0%	99^th
1972 Jul-Sep	206	206	100.0%	98^th
1972 Oct-Oct	75	75	100.0%	98^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