William Seward, former Senator from New York

Dates	Title	Representing
1855-1861	Senator	New York
1849-1855	Senator	New York

Voting Record

From Mar 1849 to Mar 1861, Seward missed 677 of 3,133 roll call votes, which is 21.6%. This is better than the median of 21.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1861. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1850 Mar-May	64	2	3.1%	0^th
1850 Jun-Aug	154	29	18.8%	50^th
1850 Sep-Sep	108	2	1.9%	0^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	141	8	5.7%	0^th
1849 Mar-Mar	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	38	6	15.8%	13^th
1852 Apr-Jul	80	12	15.0%	13^th
1852 Aug-Aug	91	18	19.8%	27^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	124	28	22.6%	50^th
1851 Mar-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	50	16	32.0%	57^th
1854 Apr-Jul	227	111	48.9%	87^th
1854 Aug-Aug	64	4	6.3%	0^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	178	15	8.4%	4^th
1853 Mar-Apr	22	5	22.7%	22^nd
1856 Jan-Mar	32	12	37.5%	74^th
1856 Apr-Jul	131	22	16.8%	26^th
1856 Aug-Aug	124	2	1.6%	0^th
1856 Aug-Aug	15	8	53.3%	71^st
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	144	12	8.3%	8^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	2	3.5%	9^th
1858 Mar-May	216	35	16.2%	32^nd
1858 Jun-Jun	116	13	11.2%	6^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	267	37	13.9%	15^th
1857 Mar-Mar	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1858 Jun-Jun	9	8	88.9%	65^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	27	62.8%	92^nd
1860 Mar-May	158	89	56.3%	88^th
1860 Jun-Jun	131	78	59.5%	94^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	229	70	30.6%	68^th
1859 Mar-Mar	32	1	3.1%	12^th
1860 Jun-Jun	5	5	100.0%	77^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo