Rep. Arlen Erdahl

Former Representative for Minnesota’s 1^st District

Erdahl was the representative for Minnesota’s 1^st congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1979 to 1982.

Bioguide

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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Erdahl is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1982 positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Erdahl sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 4, 1977 to Dec 21, 1982. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Erdahl sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Labor and Employment (29%) Government Operations and Politics (15%) Taxation (15%) Emergency Management (12%) Private Legislation (9%) Education (9%) Social Welfare (6%) Economics and Public Finance (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Erdahl recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1979 to Dec 1982, Erdahl missed 139 of 2,088 roll call votes, which is 6.7%. This is on par with the median of 7.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	33	14.9%	84^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	18	9.1%	64^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	4	2.1%	12^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	11	7.4%	43^rd
1980 Apr-Jun	197	11	5.6%	33^rd
1980 Jul-Sep	192	3	1.6%	11^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	4	6.0%	33^rd
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	44^th
1981 Apr-Jun	90	1	1.1%	7^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	10	9.4%	70^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	2	1.4%	9^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	13	27.1%	88^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	16	13.4%	80^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	8	4.1%	31^st
1982 Oct-Dec	99	4	4.0%	24^th

Primary Sources

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

unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
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
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills