Walter Flowers, former Representative from Alabama's 7th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1973-1978	Representative	Alabama's 7^th District
1969-1972	Representative	Alabama's 5^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Flowers was a centrist Democratic follower according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Flowers’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Flowers to other members of the House of Representatives in the 95^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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Voting Record

From Jan 1969 to Oct 1978, Flowers missed 818 of 4,929 roll call votes, which is 16.6%. This is worse than the median of 8.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	1	3.6%	23^rd
1969 Jul-Sep	44	7	15.9%	81^st
1969 Oct-Dec	87	14	16.1%	71^st
1970 Jan-Mar	35	2	5.7%	36^th
1970 Apr-Jun	73	18	24.7%	80^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	1	1.3%	8^th
1970 Oct-Dec	80	6	7.5%	28^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	87	16	18.4%	77^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Oct-Dec	133	3	2.3%	11^th
1972 Jan-Mar	63	5	7.9%	51^st
1972 Apr-Jun	112	27	24.1%	82^nd
1972 Jul-Sep	101	12	11.9%	65^th
1972 Oct-Oct	48	13	27.1%	77^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	61^st
1973 Apr-Jun	189	19	10.1%	61^st
1973 Jul-Sep	128	11	8.6%	72^nd
1973 Oct-Dec	178	12	6.7%	54^th
1974 Jan-Mar	75	9	12.0%	70^th
1974 Apr-Jun	166	23	13.9%	70^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	18	12.2%	82^nd
1974 Oct-Dec	141	18	12.8%	68^th
1975 Jan-Mar	66	12	18.2%	92^nd
1975 Apr-Jun	198	16	8.1%	64^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	16	11.0%	77^th
1975 Oct-Dec	190	20	10.5%	80^th
1976 Jan-Mar	104	19	18.3%	92^nd
1976 Apr-Jun	264	72	27.3%	96^th
1976 Jul-Sep	280	3	1.1%	13^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	2	2.0%	24^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	18	6.6%	49^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	6	3.0%	29^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	23	17.2%	88^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	17	11.4%	69^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	115	38.3%	94^th
1978 Jul-Sep	307	227	73.9%	99^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	13	17.3%	82^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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills