Richard Buckner, former Representative from Kentucky's 8th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1827-1829	Representative	Kentucky's 8^th District
1825-1827	Representative	Kentucky's 8^th District
1823-1825	Representative	Kentucky's 8^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1823 to Mar 1829, Buckner missed 98 of 434 roll call votes, which is 22.6%. This is worse than the median of 16.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1829. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1823-May 1824	79	10	12.7%	48^th
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	14	6	42.9%	92^nd
1826 Jan-May	57	16	28.1%	73^rd
1827 Jan-Mar	53	15	28.3%	84^th
Dec 1827-May 1828	158	22	13.9%	47^th
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	73	29	39.7%	82^nd

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