Rep. Alfred McCandless

Former Representative from California's 44^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	State / District
1993-1994	Representative	California's 44^th District
1983-1992	Representative	California's 37^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

McCandless was a moderate Republican follower according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from McCandless’s time serving in the House of Representatives. McCandless’s bills had a total of 21 cosponsors in the 103^rd Congress.

Use this chart to compare McCandless to other members of the House of Representatives in the 103^rd Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Some of McCandless’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1983 to Nov 1994, McCandless missed 247 of 5,666 roll call votes, which is 4.4%. This is worse than the median of 3.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1994. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1983 Jan-Mar	43	1	2.3%	18^th
1983 Apr-Jun	177	10	5.6%	50^th
1983 Jul-Sep	129	1	0.8%	25^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	3	2.1%	23^rd
1984 Jan-Mar	53	1	1.9%	26^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	3	1.3%	10^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	2	2.1%	36^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	1	2.8%	30^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	67^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	1	0.6%	10^th
1985 Jul-Sep	97	1	1.0%	35^th
1985 Oct-Dec	147	13	8.8%	87^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	2	3.3%	30^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	10	7.8%	83^rd
1986 Jul-Sep	198	10	5.1%	69^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	1	2.6%	39^th
1987 Apr-Jun	185	33	17.8%	96^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	10	10.5%	85^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	8	4.8%	38^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	3	6.1%	59^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	1	0.6%	14^th
1988 Jul-Sep	148	34	23.0%	96^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	4	4.5%	62^nd
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	103	6	5.8%	79^th
1989 Jul-Sep	127	12	9.4%	94^th
1989 Oct-Nov	119	5	4.2%	62^nd
1990 Jan-Mar	60	1	1.7%	31^st
1990 Apr-Jun	150	1	0.7%	18^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	5	2.7%	50^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	1	0.7%	20^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	1	1.6%	31^st
1991 Apr-Jun	139	4	2.9%	48^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	1	1.2%	12^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	1	0.6%	17^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	4	6.1%	65^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	3	1.5%	34^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	1	0.8%	23^rd
1993 Apr-Jun	190	2	1.1%	21^st
1993 Jul-Sep	164	10	6.1%	83^rd
1993 Oct-Nov	134	2	1.5%	43^rd
1994 Jan-Mar	95	2	2.1%	37^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	18	8.2%	84^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	8	5.6%	68^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	2	3.9%	63^rd

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Alfred McCandless [R-CA44, 1993-1994] leaves office as Representative for California's 44th congressional district

Dec 01, 1994

Elections and Offices

Rep. Alfred McCandless [R-CA44, 1993-1994] takes office as Representative for California's 44th congressional district

Jan 05, 1993

Elections and Offices

Rep. Alfred McCandless [R-CA44, 1993-1994] leaves office as Representative for California's 37th congressional district

Oct 09, 1992

Elections and Offices

Rep. Alfred McCandless [R-CA44, 1993-1994] takes office as Representative for California's 37th congressional district

Jan 03, 1983