Rep. Edward Seymour

Former Representative from Connecticut’s 4^th District, Democrat

Seymour, a Democrat, was the representative for Connecticut's 4^th congressional district from 1885 to 1887.

He was previously the representative for Connecticut's 4^th congressional district (1883-1885).

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Voting Record

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From Dec 1883 to Mar 1887, Seymour missed 72 of 640 roll call votes, which is 11.3%. This is better than the median of 28.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1887. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	34	2	5.9%	14^th
1884 Mar-May	71	4	5.6%	9^th
1884 Jun-Jul	83	10	12.0%	6^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	146	16	11.0%	10^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	39	4	10.3%	20^th
1886 Apr-Jul	158	24	15.2%	17^th
1886 Aug-Aug	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	103	12	11.7%	16^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

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