Rep. Washington Townsend

Former Representative from Pennsylvania’s 6^th District, Republican

Townsend, a Republican, was the representative for Pennsylvania's 6^th congressional district from 1875 to 1877.

He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania's 7^th congressional district (1873-1875); and the representative for Pennsylvania's 7^th congressional district (1869-1873).

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Voting Record

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From Mar 1869 to Mar 1877, Townsend missed 339 of 1,953 roll call votes, which is 17.4%. This is better than the median of 26.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1877. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1869 Mar-Apr	83	23	27.7%	67^th
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	71	14	19.7%	58^th
1870 Mar-May	152	30	19.7%	35^th
1870 Jun-Jul	170	40	23.5%	49^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	158	13	8.2%	8^th
1871 Mar-Apr	87	10	11.5%	43^rd
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	89	7	7.9%	17^th
1872 Mar-May	156	33	21.2%	34^th
1872 Jun-Jun	35	2	5.7%	9^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	150	26	17.3%	38^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	78	4	5.1%	6^th
1874 Mar-May	101	25	24.8%	62^nd
1874 Jun-Jun	60	4	6.7%	16^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	235	23	9.8%	10^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	60	7	11.7%	33^rd
1876 Apr-Jul	106	31	29.2%	36^th
1876 Aug-Aug	37	6	16.2%	23^rd
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	125	41	32.8%	77^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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