Matt Ransom, former Senator from North Carolina

Dates	Title	Representing
1889-1895	Senator	North Carolina
1883-1889	Senator	North Carolina
1877-1883	Senator	North Carolina
1872-1877	Senator	North Carolina

Voting Record

From Apr 1872 to Mar 1895, Ransom missed 2,162 of 5,566 roll call votes, which is 38.8%. This is worse than the median of 31.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1895. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1872 Mar-May	197	77	39.1%	50^th
1872 Jun-Jun	93	25	26.9%	75^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	191	58	30.4%	75^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	54	22	40.7%	63^rd
1874 Mar-May	108	40	37.0%	50^th
1874 Jun-Jun	80	15	18.8%	13^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	141	43	30.5%	63^rd
1873 Mar-Mar	16	6	37.5%	50^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	85	25	29.4%	56^th
1876 Apr-Jul	181	61	33.7%	63^rd
1876 Aug-Aug	50	17	34.0%	63^rd
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	79	22	27.8%	56^th
1875 Mar-Mar	13	6	46.2%	88^th
1877 Oct-Dec	64	44	68.8%	88^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	65	31	47.7%	88^th
1878 Mar-May	108	62	57.4%	88^th
1878 Jun-Jun	75	22	29.3%	63^rd
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	227	71	31.3%	81^st
1877 Mar-Mar	15	5	33.3%	71^st
1879 Mar-Jul	182	61	33.5%	60^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	48	10	20.8%	40^th
1880 Mar-May	122	53	43.4%	80^th
1880 Jun-Jun	38	13	34.2%	42^nd
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	156	57	36.5%	75^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	91	27	29.7%	68^th
1882 Apr-Jul	193	91	47.2%	82^nd
1882 Aug-Aug	37	11	29.7%	70^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	383	189	49.3%	81^st
1881 Mar-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1881 Oct-Oct	59	37	62.7%	57^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	63	21	33.3%	63^rd
1884 Mar-May	112	35	31.3%	56^th
1884 Jun-Jul	74	32	43.2%	66^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	153	88	57.5%	94^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	61	17	27.9%	60^th
1886 Apr-Jul	215	87	40.5%	70^th
1886 Aug-Aug	10	6	60.0%	75^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	138	50	36.2%	73^rd
1885 Mar-Apr	7	2	28.6%	74^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	48	25	52.1%	88^th
1888 Mar-May	61	28	45.9%	65^th
1888 Jun-Aug	59	34	57.6%	71^st
1888 Sep-Oct	14	13	92.9%	84^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	189	77	40.7%	61^st
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	30	13	43.3%	63^rd
1890 Mar-May	82	48	58.5%	88^th
1890 Jun-Aug	143	52	36.4%	42^nd
1890 Sep-Sep	76	14	18.4%	31^st
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	136	66	48.5%	75^th
1889 Mar-Apr	9	1	11.1%	27^th
1892 Jan-Mar	22	8	36.4%	53^rd
1892 Apr-Jul	75	28	37.3%	46^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	99	53	53.5%	78^th
1893 Aug-Oct	72	16	22.2%	34^th
1894 Jan-Mar	29	5	17.2%	27^th
1894 Apr-Jul	301	93	30.9%	44^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	7	35.0%	49^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	98	36	36.7%	56^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	6	100.0%	78^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