Louis “Skip” Bafalis, former Representative from Florida's 10th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1973-1982	Representative	Florida's 10^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Bafalis was a far-right Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Bafalis’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Bafalis to other members of the House of Representatives in the 97^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 1973 to Dec 1982, Bafalis missed 441 of 5,929 roll call votes, which is 7.4%. This is worse than the median of 7.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1973 Jan-Mar	35	6	17.1%	81^st
1973 Apr-Jun	189	20	10.6%	67^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	2	1.5%	20^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	13	7.2%	57^th
1974 Jan-Mar	75	6	8.0%	54^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	14	8.3%	44^th
1974 Jul-Sep	147	3	2.0%	28^th
1974 Oct-Dec	140	6	4.3%	24^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	4	5.9%	50^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	10	5.0%	46^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	3	2.1%	21^st
1975 Oct-Dec	189	4	2.1%	28^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	0	0.0%	0^th
1976 Apr-Jun	266	6	2.3%	14^th
1976 Jul-Sep	280	9	3.2%	30^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	99	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	8	2.9%	27^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	1	0.5%	8^th
1977 Oct-Dec	131	9	6.9%	59^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	0	0.0%	0^th
1978 Apr-Jun	296	12	4.1%	31^st
1978 Jul-Sep	308	8	2.6%	20^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	219	9	4.1%	32^nd
1979 Jul-Sep	197	4	2.0%	19^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	2	1.1%	6^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	4	2.7%	14^th
1980 Apr-Jun	194	3	1.5%	12^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	11	5.7%	41^st
1980 Oct-Dec	66	7	10.6%	54^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	44^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	10	11.2%	71^st
1981 Jul-Sep	106	2	1.9%	26^th
1981 Oct-Dec	136	12	8.8%	63^rd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	2	4.2%	37^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	30	25.2%	93^rd
1982 Jul-Sep	193	157	81.3%	99^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	43	43.4%	93^rd

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. Louis “Skip” Bafalis [R-FL10, 1973-1982] leaves office as Representative for Florida's 10th congressional district

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Rep. Louis “Skip” Bafalis [R-FL10, 1973-1982] takes office as Representative for Florida's 10th congressional district

Jan 03, 1973

Rep. Louis “Skip” Bafalis

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices