Ralph Cole, former Representative from Ohio's 8th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1907-1911	Representative	Ohio's 8^th District
1905-1907	Representative	Ohio's 8^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1905 to Mar 1911, Cole missed 165 of 644 roll call votes, which is 25.6%. This is better than the median of 26.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1911. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1905-Feb 1906	25	2	8.0%	16^th
1906 Mar-May	57	13	22.8%	36^th
1906 Jun-Jun	20	4	20.0%	41^st
Dec 1906-Mar 1907	34	5	14.7%	40^th
Dec 1907-May 1908	269	88	32.7%	54^th
Dec 1908-Mar 1909	42	7	16.7%	29^th
1909 Mar-Aug	35	1	2.9%	12^th
Dec 1909-Feb 1910	18	14	77.8%	95^th
1910 Mar-May	60	15	25.0%	48^th
1910 Jun-Jun	18	3	16.7%	47^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	66	13	19.7%	36^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