Robert Vance, former Representative from North Carolina's 8th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1883-1885	Representative	North Carolina's 8^th District
1881-1883	Representative	North Carolina's 8^th District
1877-1881	Representative	North Carolina's 8^th District
1875-1877	Representative	North Carolina's 8^th District
1873-1875	Representative	North Carolina's 8^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1873 to Mar 1885, Vance missed 326 of 2,279 roll call votes, which is 14.3%. This is better than the median of 28.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1885. 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	4	5.1%	3^rd
1874 Mar-May	101	0	0.0%	0^th
1874 Jun-Jun	59	4	6.8%	23^rd
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	233	16	6.9%	6^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	60	1	1.7%	8^th
1876 Apr-Jul	106	13	12.3%	10^th
1876 Aug-Aug	37	28	75.7%	84^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	124	2	1.6%	4^th
1877 Oct-Dec	36	1	2.8%	13^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	54	6	11.1%	40^th
1878 Mar-May	103	3	2.9%	3^rd
1878 Jun-Jun	65	1	1.5%	7^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	114	11	9.6%	25^th
1879 Mar-Jul	130	26	20.0%	49^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	34	1	2.9%	4^th
1880 Mar-May	115	18	15.7%	18^th
1880 Jun-Jun	32	1	3.1%	5^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	119	14	11.8%	15^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	73	8	11.0%	14^th
1882 Apr-Jul	166	81	48.8%	53^rd
1882 Aug-Aug	7	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	100	16	16.0%	22^nd
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	34	3	8.8%	24^th
1884 Mar-May	70	3	4.3%	6^th
1884 Jun-Jul	83	4	4.8%	2^nd
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	146	61	41.8%	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