William Hastings, former Representative from Massachusetts's 9th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1839-1843	Representative	Massachusetts's 9^th District
1837-1839	Representative	Massachusetts's 9^th District

Voting Record

From Sep 1837 to Jan 1843, Hastings missed 596 of 1,794 roll call votes, which is 33.2%. This is worse than the median of 25.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1843. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1837 Sep-Oct	54	3	5.6%	25^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	11	21.2%	68^th
1838 Mar-May	120	31	25.8%	54^th
1838 Jun-Jul	100	21	21.0%	56^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	139	40	28.8%	69^th
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	166	25	15.1%	50^th
1840 Mar-May	250	71	28.4%	37^th
1840 Jun-Jul	207	70	33.8%	48^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	121	84	69.4%	97^th
1841 May-Sep	257	65	25.3%	69^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	202	86	42.6%	87^th
1842 Apr-Jul	125	88	70.4%	95^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	1	1	100.0%	99^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