Simeon Chittenden, former Representative from New York's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1877-1881	Representative	New York's 3^rd District
1875-1877	Representative	New York's 3^rd District
1873-1875	Representative	New York's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Feb 1874 to Mar 1881, Chittenden missed 602 of 1,360 roll call votes, which is 44.3%. This is worse than the median of 26.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1881. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	3	3	100.0%	98^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	232	126	54.3%	89^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	58	13	22.4%	74^th
1876 Apr-Jul	106	57	53.8%	89^th
1876 Aug-Aug	37	20	54.1%	67^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	124	20	16.1%	42^nd
1877 Oct-Dec	33	8	24.2%	75^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	52	19	36.5%	89^th
1878 Mar-May	100	52	52.0%	97^th
1878 Jun-Jun	65	16	24.6%	66^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	116	41	35.3%	87^th
1879 Mar-Jul	134	90	67.2%	91^st
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	34	10	29.4%	60^th
1880 Mar-May	115	60	52.2%	86^th
1880 Jun-Jun	32	14	43.8%	57^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	119	53	44.5%	83^rd

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