Rep. Seymour Halpern

Former Representative for New York’s 6^th District

Halpern was the representative for New York’s 6^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1963 to 1972.

He was previously the representative for New York’s 4^th congressional district as a Republican from 1959 to 1962.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1959 to Oct 1972, Halpern missed 453 of 2,614 roll call votes, which is 17.3%. This is much worse than the median of 10.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1972. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1959 Jan-Apr	16	1	6.2%	83^rd
1959 May-Aug	54	1	1.9%	54^th
1959 Sep-Sep	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Feb-Apr	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 May-Aug	70	2	2.9%	77^th
1961 Jan-Apr	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	65	1	1.5%	47^th
1961 Sep-Sep	29	1	3.4%	55^th
1962 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	31	1	3.2%	59^th
1963 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Apr-Jun	53	13	24.5%	87^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	15	15.3%	74^th
1965 Oct-Oct	22	1	4.5%	24^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	3	10.0%	52^nd
1966 Apr-Jun	51	8	15.7%	63^rd
1966 Jul-Sep	72	15	20.8%	66^th
1966 Oct-Oct	40	12	30.0%	59^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	3	5.1%	69^th
1967 Oct-Dec	97	4	4.1%	81^st
1968 Jan-Mar	38	2	5.3%	83^rd
1968 Apr-Jun	79	3	3.8%	67^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	4	4.4%	53^rd
1968 Oct-Oct	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	2	7.1%	37^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	26	57.8%	99^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	24	27.3%	85^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	5	14.3%	57^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	29	39.2%	93^rd
1970 Jul-Sep	76	19	25.0%	77^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	28	34.6%	81^st
1971 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	50^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	34	37.8%	94^th
1971 Jul-Sep	74	11	14.9%	70^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	92	68.7%	99^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	4	6.2%	33^rd
1972 Apr-Jun	114	43	37.7%	88^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	27	26.7%	83^rd
1972 Oct-Oct	50	17	34.0%	76^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

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