Robert Yardley, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 7th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1889-1891	Representative	Pennsylvania's 7^th District
1887-1889	Representative	Pennsylvania's 7^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1887 to Mar 1891, Yardley missed 325 of 899 roll call votes, which is 36.2%. This is worse than the median of 33.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1891. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	38	4	10.5%	17^th
1888 Mar-May	104	38	36.5%	49^th
1888 Jun-Aug	47	23	48.9%	57^th
1888 Sep-Oct	16	14	87.5%	76^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	113	33	29.2%	53^rd
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	78	2	2.6%	6^th
1890 Mar-May	109	21	19.3%	25^th
1890 Jun-Aug	168	97	57.7%	73^rd
1890 Sep-Sep	53	14	26.4%	27^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	173	79	45.7%	75^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