Rep. John Ritter

Former Representative from Pennsylvania’s 9^th District, Democrat

Ritter, a Democrat, was the representative for Pennsylvania's 9^th congressional district from 1845 to 1847.

He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania's 9^th congressional district (1843-1845).

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Voting Record

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From Dec 1843 to Mar 1847, Ritter missed 147 of 1,239 roll call votes, which is 11.9%. This is better than the median of 24.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1847. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	140	16	11.4%	21^st
1844 Mar-May	207	20	9.7%	16^th
1844 Jun-Jun	80	5	6.3%	7^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	170	15	8.8%	7^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	149	9	6.0%	5^th
1846 Apr-Jul	263	49	18.6%	31^st
1846 Aug-Aug	51	2	3.9%	4^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	179	31	17.3%	18^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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