Ralph Flanders, former Senator from Vermont

Dates	Title	Representing
1953-1958	Senator	Vermont
1946-1952	Senator	Vermont

Voting Record

From Jan 1947 to Aug 1958, Flanders missed 135 of 1,604 roll call votes, which is 8.4%. This is worse than the median of 3.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1958. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1947 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Apr-Jun	53	4	7.5%	88^th
1947 Jul-Jul	39	1	2.6%	51^st
1947 Nov-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Feb-Mar	28	2	7.1%	76^th
1948 Apr-Jun	74	2	2.7%	57^th
1948 Aug-Aug	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jan-Mar	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	71	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	66	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jul-Sep	71	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Mar	16	7	43.8%	98^th
1951 Apr-Jun	69	6	8.7%	93^rd
1951 Jul-Sep	83	15	18.1%	95^th
1951 Oct-Oct	16	1	6.3%	56^th
1952 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Apr-Jun	84	7	8.3%	80^th
1952 Jul-Jul	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jan-Mar	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Jul	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Sep	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	6	23.1%	90^th
1955 Apr-Jun	37	6	16.2%	89^th
1955 Jul-Aug	21	9	42.9%	98^th
1956 Jan-Mar	47	3	6.4%	78^th
1956 Apr-Jun	44	3	6.8%	74^th
1956 Jul-Jul	30	4	13.3%	92^nd
1957 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	43	9	20.9%	93^rd
1957 Jul-Aug	38	5	13.2%	83^rd
1958 Feb-Mar	36	9	25.0%	94^th
1958 Apr-Jun	75	25	33.3%	98^th
1958 Jul-Aug	74	11	14.9%	89^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