Matthew Merritt, former Representative from New York's -1th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1939-1944	Representative	New York
1937-1938	Representative	New York
1935-1936	Representative	New York

Voting Record

From Jan 1935 to Dec 1944, Merritt missed 51 of 825 roll call votes, which is 6.2%. This is worse than the median of 4.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1944. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1935 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Apr-Jun	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Jul-Aug	58	0	0.0%	0^th
1936 Jan-Jun	79	11	13.9%	42^nd
1937 Jan-Mar	19	1	5.3%	32^nd
1937 Apr-Jun	40	3	7.5%	33^rd
1937 Jul-Aug	27	4	14.8%	52^nd
1937 Dec-Dec	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1938 Jan-Jun	57	1	1.8%	63^rd
1939 Jan-Mar	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Apr-Jun	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Jul-Aug	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Oct-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	27	4	14.8%	98^th
1940 Apr-Jun	36	2	5.6%	98^th
1940 Jul-Sep	26	13	50.0%	99^th
1940 Oct-Dec	7	1	14.3%	87^th
1941 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Apr-Jun	30	1	3.3%	84^th
1941 Jul-Aug	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Oct-Dec	14	1	7.1%	88^th
1942 Jan-Mar	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Apr-Jun	29	2	6.9%	79^th
1942 Jul-Sep	11	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Oct-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Apr-Jun	41	2	4.9%	68^th
1943 Jul-Sep	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Oct-Dec	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Jan-Mar	19	2	10.5%	86^th
1944 Apr-Jun	29	1	3.4%	69^th
1944 Sep-Sep	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Nov-Dec	5	2	40.0%	81^st

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