William Spong Jr., former Senator for Virginia

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Spong was a senator from Virginia and was a Democrat. He served from 1966 to 1972.

Photo of Sen. William Spong [D-VA, 1966-1972]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1967 to Oct 1972, Spong missed 175 of 2,217 roll call votes, which is 7.9%. This is better than the median of 14.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1972. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1967 Jan-Mar	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	70	11	15.7%	60^th
1967 Jul-Sep	81	2	2.5%	11^th
1967 Oct-Dec	111	8	7.2%	15^th
1968 Jan-Mar	69	7	10.1%	47^th
1968 Apr-Jun	96	8	8.3%	18^th
1968 Jul-Sep	89	3	3.4%	8^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	26	2	7.7%	38^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	1	2.3%	18^th
1969 Oct-Dec	158	5	3.2%	6^th
1970 Jan-Mar	100	10	10.0%	42^nd
1970 Apr-Jun	92	2	2.2%	7^th
1970 Jul-Sep	123	7	5.7%	8^th
1970 Oct-Dec	106	8	7.5%	25^th
1971 Feb-Mar	25	1	4.0%	17^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	13	14.6%	43^rd
1971 Jul-Sep	109	4	3.7%	9^th
1971 Oct-Dec	202	3	1.5%	2^nd
1972 Jan-Mar	119	8	6.7%	25^th
1972 Apr-Jun	130	3	2.3%	9^th
1972 Jul-Sep	206	35	17.0%	63^rd
1972 Oct-Oct	75	34	45.3%	81^st

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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo

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Missed Votes

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