Shepherd Leffler, former Representative from Iowa's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1849-1851	Representative	Iowa's 2^nd District
1847-1849	Representative	Iowa's 2^nd District
1845-1847	Representative	Iowa

Voting Record

From Dec 1846 to Mar 1851, Leffler missed 357 of 1,210 roll call votes, which is 29.5%. This is worse than the median of 21.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1851. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	168	46	27.4%	55^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	94	19	20.2%	51^st
1848 Apr-Jul	151	82	54.3%	88^th
1848 Aug-Aug	70	70	100.0%	97^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	36	23.2%	55^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	108	31	28.7%	76^th
1850 Mar-May	68	13	19.1%	35^th
1850 Jun-Aug	146	16	11.0%	31^st
1850 Sep-Sep	117	10	8.5%	24^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	34	25.6%	59^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