Willis Alston, former Representative from North Carolina's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1829-1831	Representative	North Carolina's 2^nd District
1827-1829	Representative	North Carolina's 2^nd District
1825-1827	Representative	North Carolina's 2^nd District
1811-1815	Representative	North Carolina's 2^nd District
1807-1811	Representative	North Carolina's 2^nd District
1805-1807	Representative	North Carolina's 2^nd District
1803-1805	Representative	North Carolina's 2^nd District
1801-1803	Representative	North Carolina's 9^th District
1799-1801	Representative	North Carolina's 9^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1799 to Mar 1831, Alston missed 253 of 2,326 roll call votes, which is 10.9%. This is better than the median of 14.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1831. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1799-May 1800	54	0	0.0%	0^th
Nov 1800-Mar 1801	42	2	4.8%	0^th
Dec 1801-May 1802	94	7	7.4%	0^th
Dec 1802-Mar 1803	48	5	10.4%	20^th
Oct 1803-Mar 1804	96	3	3.1%	0^th
Nov 1804-Mar 1805	35	3	8.6%	50^th
Dec 1805-Apr 1806	103	5	4.9%	0^th
Dec 1806-Mar 1807	55	8	14.5%	0^th
1807 Oct-Dec	35	1	2.9%	20^th
1808 Jan-Mar	49	1	2.0%	0^th
1808 Apr-Apr	35	0	0.0%	0^th
Nov 1808-Mar 1809	111	5	4.5%	20^th
1809 May-Jun	36	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1809-Jan 1810	29	2	6.9%	20^th
1810 Feb-Apr	121	18	14.9%	20^th
1810 May-May	3	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1810-Mar 1811	104	10	9.6%	20^th
Nov 1811-Feb 1812	82	0	0.0%	0^th
1812 Mar-Jun	126	25	19.8%	60^th
1812 Jul-Jul	14	14	100.0%	80^th
Nov 1812-Mar 1813	90	12	13.3%	20^th
1813 May-Aug	72	3	4.2%	27^th
Dec 1813-Apr 1814	110	8	7.3%	0^th
1814 Sep-Nov	54	9	16.7%	67^th
Dec 1814-Feb 1815	106	8	7.5%	38^th
1815 Mar-Mar	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1826 Jan-May	57	11	19.3%	62^nd
1827 Jan-Mar	53	3	5.7%	19^th
Dec 1827-May 1828	158	40	25.3%	87^th
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	73	8	11.0%	32^nd
Dec 1829-May 1830	183	30	16.4%	55^th
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	88	12	13.6%	47^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