Ransom Dunham, former Representative from Illinois's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1887-1889	Representative	Illinois's 1^st District
1885-1887	Representative	Illinois's 1^st District
1883-1885	Representative	Illinois's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1883 to Mar 1889, Dunham missed 406 of 947 roll call votes, which is 42.9%. This is worse than the median of 32.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1889. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	33	6	18.2%	50^th
1884 Mar-May	70	31	44.3%	85^th
1884 Jun-Jul	80	47	58.8%	79^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	146	48	32.9%	65^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	36	14	38.9%	80^th
1886 Apr-Jul	155	57	36.8%	71^st
1886 Aug-Aug	6	6	100.0%	84^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	103	15	14.6%	27^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	38	8	21.1%	42^nd
1888 Mar-May	104	64	61.5%	82^nd
1888 Jun-Aug	47	43	91.5%	97^th
1888 Sep-Oct	16	16	100.0%	84^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	113	51	45.1%	71^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