Margaret Smith, former Senator from Maine

Dates	Title	Representing
1961-1972	Senator	Maine
1949-1960	Senator	Maine
1947-1948	Representative	Maine's 2^nd District
1939-1946	Representative	Maine's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Jan 1949 to Oct 1972, Smith missed 168 of 5,575 roll call votes, which is 3.0%. This is better 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	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	70	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	54	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	70	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	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Apr-Jun	69	3	4.3%	81^st
1951 Jul-Sep	91	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Oct-Oct	11	1	9.1%	56^th
1952 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Apr-Jun	91	7	7.7%	88^th
1952 Jul-Jul	6	3	50.0%	94^th
1953 Jan-Mar	9	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	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	50	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	9	34.6%	96^th
1955 Apr-Jun	38	2	5.3%	36^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	47	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	45	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jul-Aug	46	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Feb-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Apr-Jun	85	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jul-Aug	76	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Jan-Apr	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	128	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 May-Aug	122	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	137	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Sep-Sep	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^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	71	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	86	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jan-Mar	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	136	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	105	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	32	1	3.1%	9^th
1965 Apr-Jun	106	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jul-Sep	106	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Oct-Oct	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jan-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Apr-Jun	56	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jul-Sep	119	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Oct-Oct	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jan-Mar	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	70	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	110	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	69	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	96	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jul-Sep	89	31	34.8%	81^st
1968 Oct-Oct	27	27	100.0%	93^rd
1969 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Oct-Dec	155	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Jan-Mar	100	2	2.0%	7^th
1970 Apr-Jun	91	1	1.1%	6^th
1970 Jul-Sep	121	49	40.5%	88^th
1970 Oct-Dec	105	5	4.8%	18^th
1971 Feb-Mar	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	2	2.2%	5^th
1971 Jul-Sep	108	8	7.4%	28^th
1971 Oct-Dec	202	17	8.4%	33^rd
1972 Jan-Mar	119	0	0.0%	0^th
1972 Apr-Jun	129	0	0.0%	0^th
1972 Jul-Sep	206	0	0.0%	0^th
1972 Oct-Oct	75	0	0.0%	0^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