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Rep. King Swope

Former Representative from Kentucky’s 8^th District, Republican

Swope, a Republican, was the representative for Kentucky's 8^th congressional district from 1919 to 1921.

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Voting Record

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From Aug 1919 to Mar 1921, Swope missed 84 of 270 roll call votes, which is 31.1%. This is worse than the median of 25.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1921. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1919 Aug-Oct	45	24	53.3%	70^th
1919 Nov-Nov	16	12	75.0%	81^st
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	39	12	30.8%	60^th
1920 Mar-May	70	12	17.1%	37^th
1920 Jun-Jun	8	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	92	24	26.1%	58^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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