William Roberts, former Representative from New York's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1873-1875	Representative	New York's 5^th District
1871-1873	Representative	New York's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1871 to Mar 1875, Roberts missed 448 of 980 roll call votes, which is 45.7%. This is worse than the median of 22.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1875. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1871 Mar-Apr	86	5	5.8%	23^rd
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	89	18	20.2%	60^th
1872 Mar-May	154	49	31.8%	60^th
1872 Jun-Jun	34	9	26.5%	56^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	146	42	28.8%	70^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	78	29	37.2%	84^th
1874 Mar-May	101	72	71.3%	97^th
1874 Jun-Jun	59	59	100.0%	98^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	233	165	70.8%	95^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