Walter Newton, former Representative from Minnesota's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1927-1931	Representative	Minnesota's 5^th District
1925-1927	Representative	Minnesota's 5^th District
1923-1925	Representative	Minnesota's 5^th District
1919-1923	Representative	Minnesota's 5^th District

Voting Record

From May 1919 to Jun 1929, Newton missed 149 of 1,064 roll call votes, which is 14.0%. This is better than the median of 14.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1929. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1919 May-Jul	61	4	6.6%	20^th
1919 Aug-Oct	52	3	5.8%	14^th
1919 Nov-Nov	16	2	12.5%	38^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	38	14	36.8%	79^th
1920 Mar-May	70	9	12.9%	28^th
1920 Jun-Jun	4	4	100.0%	90^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	91	10	11.0%	45^th
1921 Apr-Jun	57	10	17.5%	59^th
1921 Jul-Aug	48	6	12.5%	42^nd
1921 Oct-Nov	29	3	10.3%	34^th
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	48	13	27.1%	56^th
1922 Mar-May	47	11	23.4%	53^rd
1922 Jun-Aug	51	18	35.3%	55^th
1922 Sep-Sep	13	2	15.4%	40^th
1922 Nov-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	60	9	15.0%	39^th
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1924 Mar-May	84	10	11.9%	63^rd
1924 Jun-Jun	10	2	20.0%	70^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	54	2	3.7%	45^th
Dec 1925-Feb 1926	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1926 Mar-May	37	4	10.8%	73^rd
1926 Jun-Jul	22	4	18.2%	81^st
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	33	1	3.0%	44^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	53	4	7.5%	32^nd
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	18	1	5.6%	16^th
1929 Apr-Jun	12	3	25.0%	85^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