Patrick Boland, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 11th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1939-1942	Representative	Pennsylvania's 11^th District
1937-1938	Representative	Pennsylvania's 11^th District
1935-1936	Representative	Pennsylvania's 11^th District
1931-1934	Representative	Pennsylvania's 11^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1931 to May 1942, Boland missed 77 of 933 roll call votes, which is 8.3%. This is worse than the median of 4.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in May 1942. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	17	3	17.6%	70^th
1932 Mar-May	37	4	10.8%	62^nd
1932 Jun-Jul	26	5	19.2%	68^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	36	8	22.2%	86^th
1933 Mar-Jun	53	4	7.5%	91^st
1934 Jan-Jun	79	32	40.5%	96^th
1935 Jan-Mar	32	1	3.1%	75^th
1935 Apr-Jun	40	1	2.5%	32^nd
1935 Jul-Aug	58	2	3.4%	41^st
1936 Jan-Jun	79	8	10.1%	28^th
1937 Jan-Mar	19	2	10.5%	52^nd
1937 Apr-Jun	41	2	4.9%	18^th
1937 Jul-Aug	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Dec-Dec	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1938 Jan-Jun	61	2	3.3%	66^th
1939 Jan-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Apr-Jun	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Jul-Aug	16	1	6.3%	90^th
1939 Oct-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	60^th
1940 Apr-Jun	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jul-Sep	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Oct-Dec	5	1	20.0%	93^rd
1941 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Apr-Jun	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jul-Aug	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Apr-Jun	4	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