Rep. William Gest

Former Representative for Illinois’s 11^th District

Gest was the representative for Illinois’s 11^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1889 to 1891.

He was previously the representative for Illinois’s 11^th congressional district as a Republican from 1887 to 1889.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1887 to Mar 1891, Gest missed 132 of 907 roll call votes, which is 14.6%. This is better than the median of 33.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1891. 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
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	39	5	12.8%	17^th
1888 Mar-May	105	13	12.4%	10^th
1888 Jun-Aug	47	8	17.0%	13^th
1888 Sep-Oct	16	8	50.0%	38^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	113	18	15.9%	16^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	80	13	16.2%	27^th
1890 Mar-May	109	11	10.1%	9^th
1890 Jun-Aug	172	32	18.6%	16^th
1890 Sep-Sep	53	5	9.4%	12^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	173	19	11.0%	9^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

Rep. William Gest

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources