Richard Cain, former Representative from South Carolina's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1877-1879	Representative	South Carolina's 2^nd District
1873-1875	Representative	South Carolina

Voting Record

From Dec 1873 to Mar 1879, Cain missed 209 of 845 roll call votes, which is 24.7%. This is worse than the median of 21.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1879. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	78	29	37.2%	84^th
1874 Mar-May	101	29	28.7%	61^st
1874 Jun-Jun	59	11	18.6%	47^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	233	42	18.0%	45^th
1877 Oct-Dec	35	5	14.3%	51^st
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	56	16	28.6%	79^th
1878 Mar-May	102	37	36.3%	86^th
1878 Jun-Jun	65	10	15.4%	41^st
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	116	30	25.9%	72^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo