Analysis · October 21, 2026
House members who miss the most votes
Most representatives vote on 98% of roll calls or more. A small group has missed one vote in seven or worse. Here is who they are and how missed votes affect a grade.
Showing up to vote is the most basic part of a legislator's job, and it is also the easiest to measure. Every roll-call vote in the House records each member as voting yes, no, present or not voting. Congress Report Card counts the votes each member cast out of the votes held while they were in office. Attendance makes up 40% of the overall grade, more than either bill score.
This article covers the 433 voting members of the House. The six delegates from DC and the territories are eligible for far fewer votes, so they are covered separately in Delegates and the territories.
Most members rarely miss a vote
The House has held 674 roll-call votes in the 119th Congress so far. The median voting member has missed 12 of them, an attendance rate of a little over 98%. The distribution is lopsided:
- 115 members, about one in four, have voted on at least 99% of roll calls.
- Around 30 House members, including several who joined partway through the Congress, have not missed a single vote.
- 22 members have missed more than 10% of their votes.
- 7 members have missed more than 15%.
Because most members are clustered near the top, the average number of missed votes (about 20) is noticeably higher than the median (12). A few members with very high absence counts pull the average up.
The members who have missed the most
These are the voting House members with the lowest attendance in the 119th Congress so far:
| Member | Missed | Attendance | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL) | 193 of 674 | 71.4% | F |
| Wesley Hunt (R-TX) | 159 of 674 | 76.4% | F |
| Thomas H. Kean, Jr. (R-NJ) | 146 of 674 | 78.3% | F |
| Neal P. Dunn (R-FL) | 123 of 674 | 81.8% | F |
| Nancy Mace (R-SC) | 120 of 674 | 82.2% | F |
| Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY) | 110 of 674 | 83.7% | F |
| Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) | 103 of 674 | 84.7% | F |
| Seth Moulton (D-MA) | 101 of 674 | 85.0% | F |
| Greg Casar (D-TX) | 98 of 674 | 85.5% | F |
| Michael T. McCaul (R-TX) | 96 of 674 | 85.8% | F |
| Donald Norcross (D-NJ) | 95 of 674 | 85.9% | F |
| John Garamendi (D-CA) | 91 of 674 | 86.5% | F |
The list is split between the parties: seven Republicans and five Democrats. Texas and Florida each appear three times, but they are also two of the largest delegations, with 38 and 28 House seats respectively. Every member on this list has an F, which shows how heavily attendance weighs on the overall grade.
Why the data can't say why
A missed vote looks the same in the record no matter the reason. Members miss votes because of illness, a death or birth in the family, a medical procedure, official travel, campaigning for re-election or for another office, or simply because they were somewhere else when the vote was called. Some of these reasons are entirely sympathetic. Members sometimes enter a statement in the Congressional Record saying how they would have voted, but that statement doesn't count as a vote.
Congress Report Card doesn't try to sort good reasons from bad ones. Doing that would mean making judgment calls about each member's private circumstances, and those calls would be impossible to apply the same way to everyone. Instead, the grade records the plain fact of whether the member voted, and the member page links to Congress.gov and the member's own website, where they often explain long absences. If you see a very low attendance number, it is worth looking for that explanation before drawing conclusions.
The House used to allow proxy voting, which let absent members have a colleague cast their vote. That practice ended in 2023, so every vote in this Congress was cast by the member in person.
How missed votes turn into a grade
The attendance score runs on a straight line from 85% attendance (0 points) to 100% attendance (100 points). Each percentage point of attendance is therefore worth about 6.7 points on the attendance score. In practice that means:
- Missing 7 of 674 votes (99% attendance) still earns an attendance score of about 93.
- Missing 20 (97%) earns about 80, which is roughly where the typical member lands.
- Missing 40 (94%) drops the score to 60.
- Missing 101 or more (85% or less) scores 0.
The scale is steep on purpose. Nearly every member attends more than 85% of votes, so a scale that started at zero attendance would give almost everyone an A for showing up and wouldn't tell members apart. Starting the scale at 85% spreads members out over the range where they actually differ.
Because attendance is 40% of the grade, a member with an attendance score of 0 can reach at most 60 points overall even with perfect bill scores, and 60 is the bottom of a D−. In practice the members in the table above, who also tend to be around the middle of the House on bill activity, all end up with an F.
Where this leaves the rest of the House
The good news in the data is that chronic absence is rare. Only about one House member in twenty missed more than 10% of votes, and the overwhelming majority vote on almost everything. For most members the attendance score is near the top of the scale, and the differences in their grades come mainly from how actively they write and support bills.
You can sort the home page list by "most votes missed" to see every member's attendance, or open any state page to compare your own delegation. The Senate has a similar pattern with different names; see Senators who miss the most votes.
Figures are from the Congress Report Card data as of October 21, 2026. Grades change as Congress votes, so the numbers on member pages may have moved since. How grades are calculated.