William Vandever, former Representative from California's 6th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1889-1891	Representative	California's 6^th District
1887-1889	Representative	California's 6^th District
1861-1863	Representative	Iowa's 2^nd District
1859-1861	Representative	Iowa's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1859 to Mar 1891, Vandever missed 803 of 1,953 roll call votes, which is 41.1%. This is worse than the median of 33.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1891. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	11	15.9%	67^th
1860 Mar-May	126	36	28.6%	89^th
1860 Jun-Jun	97	16	16.5%	22^nd
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	50	35.5%	67^th
1861 Jul-Aug	51	16	31.4%	57^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	74	46	62.2%	88^th
1862 Mar-May	111	109	98.2%	75^th
1862 Jun-Jul	122	122	100.0%	88^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	269	265	98.5%	88^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	38	17	44.7%	88^th
1888 Mar-May	105	26	24.8%	34^th
1888 Jun-Aug	47	6	12.8%	9^th
1888 Sep-Oct	16	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	113	24	21.2%	31^st
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	70	0	0.0%	0^th
1890 Mar-May	109	12	11.0%	10^th
1890 Jun-Aug	169	18	10.7%	8^th
1890 Sep-Sep	53	8	15.1%	18^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	173	21	12.1%	12^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