David Evans, former Representative for Indiana's 6th Congressional District

Evans was the representative for Indiana’s 6^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1975 to 1982.

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Evans 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 liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Evans sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Evans sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (22%) Government Operations and Politics (19%) Housing and Community Development (15%) Health (11%) Finance and Financial Sector (11%) Economics and Public Finance (7%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (7%) Social Welfare (7%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1975 to Dec 1982, Evans missed 367 of 4,901 roll call votes, which is 7.5%. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1975 Jan-Mar	68	11	16.2%	84^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	9	4.5%	41^st
1975 Jul-Sep	154	4	2.6%	23^rd
1975 Oct-Dec	191	2	1.0%	13^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	8	7.5%	58^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	19	7.1%	40^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	30	10.7%	69^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	6	6.0%	51^st
1977 Apr-Jun	273	18	6.6%	49^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	29	14.6%	84^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	6	4.4%	37^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	12	8.0%	52^nd
1978 Apr-Jun	300	6	2.0%	12^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	22	7.1%	47^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	3	3.9%	35^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	11	17.5%	83^rd
1979 Apr-Jun	221	8	3.6%	26^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	2	1.0%	9^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	3	1.6%	8^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	10	6.8%	40^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	10	5.1%	30^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	4	2.1%	16^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	2	3.0%	18^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	44^th
1981 Apr-Jun	90	6	6.7%	47^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	8	7.5%	64^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	7	4.9%	36^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	26	54.2%	97^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	32	26.9%	93^rd
1982 Jul-Sep	193	31	16.1%	81^st
1982 Oct-Dec	99	21	21.2%	80^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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

David Evans is pronounced:

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Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.

Rep. David Evans

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