Walter Coles, former Representative from Virginia's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1843-1845	Representative	Virginia's 3^rd District
1839-1843	Representative	Virginia's 6^th District
1837-1839	Representative	Virginia's 6^th District
1835-1837	Representative	Virginia's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1835 to Mar 1845, Coles missed 774 of 3,217 roll call votes, which is 24.1%. This is worse than the median of 23.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1845. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	57	7	12.3%	58^th
1836 Mar-May	150	47	31.3%	67^th
1836 Jun-Jul	116	26	22.4%	61^st
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	136	32	23.5%	38^th
1837 Sep-Oct	54	2	3.7%	12^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	2	3.8%	13^th
1838 Mar-May	120	7	5.8%	8^th
1838 Jun-Jul	100	8	8.0%	4^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	142	18	12.7%	12^th
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	155	14	9.0%	23^rd
1840 Mar-May	250	39	15.6%	12^th
1840 Jun-Jul	207	100	48.3%	77^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	61	49.6%	79^th
1841 May-Sep	259	47	18.1%	47^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	203	42	20.7%	45^th
1842 Apr-Jul	216	89	41.2%	80^th
1842 Aug-Aug	116	26	22.4%	54^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	172	39	22.7%	52^nd
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	136	46	33.8%	80^th
1844 Mar-May	207	54	26.1%	59^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	31	40.8%	79^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	170	37	21.8%	44^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