Orlando Ficklin, former Representative from Illinois's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1851-1853	Representative	Illinois's 3^rd District
1847-1849	Representative	Illinois's 3^rd District
1845-1847	Representative	Illinois's 3^rd District
1843-1845	Representative	Illinois's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1843 to Mar 1853, Ficklin missed 378 of 2,146 roll call votes, which is 17.6%. This is better than the median of 26.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1853. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	135	17	12.6%	46^th
1844 Mar-May	207	35	16.9%	35^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	20	26.3%	65^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	170	27	15.9%	27^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	149	27	18.1%	35^th
1846 Apr-Jul	263	33	12.5%	15^th
1846 Aug-Aug	51	12	23.5%	41^st
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	177	36	20.3%	30^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	93	7	7.5%	20^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	11	7.3%	9^th
1848 Aug-Aug	70	14	20.0%	56^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	25	16.1%	41^st
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	93	4	4.3%	6^th
1852 Apr-Jul	178	44	24.7%	39^th
1852 Aug-Aug	64	27	42.2%	70^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	39	34.2%	58^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