Louis “Skip” Bafalis, former Representative for Florida's 10th Congressional District

Bafalis was the representative for Florida’s 10^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1973 to 1982.

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Bafalis 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 Bafalis sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Bafalis sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (43%) Social Welfare (23%) Economics and Public Finance (11%) Labor and Employment (8%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (5%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1973 to Dec 1982, Bafalis missed 469 of 5,979 roll call votes, which is 7.8%. 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
1973 Jan-Mar	36	7	19.4%	81^st
1973 Apr-Jun	191	20	10.5%	65^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	2	1.5%	19^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	13	7.1%	54^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	8	10.1%	60^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	14	8.2%	43^rd
1974 Jul-Sep	148	4	2.7%	28^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	7	5.0%	24^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	4	5.9%	49^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	10	5.0%	45^th
1975 Jul-Sep	154	4	2.6%	23^rd
1975 Oct-Dec	191	6	3.1%	30^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	0	0.0%	0^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	7	2.6%	14^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	9	3.2%	28^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	1	1.0%	13^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	8	2.9%	24^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	1	0.5%	7^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	12	8.9%	61^st
1978 Jan-Mar	150	0	0.0%	0^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	16	5.3%	36^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	8	2.6%	19^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	10	4.5%	30^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	5	2.5%	19^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	2	1.1%	6^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	4	2.7%	14^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	5	2.5%	15^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	11	5.7%	40^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	8	11.9%	54^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	44^th
1981 Apr-Jun	90	10	11.1%	69^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	2	1.9%	25^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	18	12.7%	75^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	2	4.2%	37^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	30	25.2%	92^nd
1982 Jul-Sep	193	157	81.3%	99^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	43	43.4%	93^rd

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

Louis “Skip” Bafalis is pronounced:

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Rep. Louis “Skip” Bafalis

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