Luke Poland, former Representative from Vermont's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1883-1885	Representative	Vermont's 2^nd District
1873-1875	Representative	Vermont's 2^nd District
1867-1873	Representative	Vermont's 2^nd District
1865-1867	Senator	Vermont

Voting Record

From Mar 1867 to Mar 1885, Poland missed 709 of 2,651 roll call votes, which is 26.7%. This is better than the median of 28.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1885. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1867 Mar-Mar	61	17	27.9%	60^th
1867 Jul-Jul	35	14	40.0%	73^rd
1867 Nov-Nov	5	1	20.0%	53^rd
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	139	37	26.6%	69^th
1868 Mar-May	125	51	40.8%	50^th
1868 Jun-Jul	150	58	38.7%	56^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	197	35	17.8%	38^th
1869 Mar-Apr	81	16	19.8%	41^st
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	71	20	28.2%	79^th
1870 Mar-May	149	64	43.0%	79^th
1870 Jun-Jul	169	53	31.4%	74^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	158	33	20.9%	42^nd
1871 Mar-Apr	85	7	8.2%	33^rd
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	89	31	34.8%	84^th
1872 Mar-May	154	32	20.8%	42^nd
1872 Jun-Jun	34	5	14.7%	47^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	150	56	37.3%	85^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	78	17	21.8%	65^th
1874 Mar-May	99	18	18.2%	58^th
1874 Jun-Jun	58	20	34.5%	81^st
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	233	33	14.2%	29^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	32	6	18.8%	55^th
1884 Mar-May	69	7	10.1%	17^th
1884 Jun-Jul	83	17	20.5%	21^st
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	146	61	41.8%	72^nd

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