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North Carolina State Missed
Votes Scorecard

In North Carolina, the average Senate missed 7% of the vote.

State	Dist	Party	Member	% Missed Votes	# Missed Votes	# Total Votes	Most Absent Rank
NC	SD-03	D	Ernestine Bazemore		269	521	1
NC	SD-32	D	Paul Lowe		91	521	2
NC	SD-49	D	Julie Mayfield		90	521	3
NC	SD-08	R	Bill Rabon		74	521	4
NC	SD-46	R	Warren Daniel		66	521	5
NC	SD-28	D	Gladys Robinson		66	521	5
NC	SD-43	R	Kathryn Harrington		65	521	7
NC	SD-30	R	Philip Berger		58	521	8
NC	SD-39	D	DeAndrea Salvador		57	521	9
NC	SD-20	D	Natalie Murdock		56	521	10
NC	SD-05	D	Donald Davis		54	521	11
NC	SD-13	R	Danny Britt		53	521	12
NC	SD-15	D	Jay Chaudhuri		52	521	13
NC	SD-16	D	Wiley Nickel		51	521	14
NC	SD-27	D	Michael Garrett		45	521	15
NC	SD-17	D	Sydney Batch		42	521	16
NC	SD-50	R	Kevin Corbin		42	521	16
NC	SD-41	D	Natasha Marcus		41	521	18
NC	SD-14	D	Dan Blue		40	521	19
NC	SD-44	R	Ted Alexander		38	521	20
NC	SD-01	R	Robert Steinburg		33	521	21
NC	SD-21	D	Benjamin Clark		30	521	22
NC	SD-35	R	Todd Johnson		30	521	22
NC	SD-38	D	Mujtaba Mohammed		30	521	22
NC	SD-47	R	Ralph Hise		29	521	25
NC	SD-18	D	Sarah Crawford		28	521	26
NC	SD-04	D	Milton Fitch		26	521	27
NC	SD-24	R	Amy Galey		22	521	28
NC	SD-09	R	Michael Lee		19	521	29
NC	SD-45	R	Deanna Ballard		18	521	30
NC	SD-26	R	David Craven		17	521	31
NC	SD-36	R	Paul Newton		16	521	32
NC	SD-37	D	Jeffrey Jackson		15	521	33
NC	SD-48	R	Charles Edwards		14	521	34
NC	SD-29	R	Steven Jarvis		14	521	34
NC	SD-06	R	Michael Lazzara		14	521	34
NC	SD-42	R	Harold Proctor		14	521	34
NC	SD-25	R	Thomas McInnis		13	521	38
NC	SD-22	D	Mike Woodard		12	521	39
NC	SD-31	R	Joyce Krawiec		9	521	40
NC	SD-23	D	Valerie Foushee		8	521	41
NC	SD-34	R	Vickie Sawyer		8	521	41
NC	SD-12	R	Jim Burgin		5	521	43
NC	SD-07	R	Jim Perry		5	521	43
NC	SD-11	R	Lisa Barnes		2	521	45
NC	SD-33	R	Carl Ford		2	521	45
NC	SD-19	D	Kirk deViere		1	521	47
NC	SD-40	D	Joyce Waddell		1	521	47
NC	SD-10	R	Brent Jackson		0	521	49
NC	SD-02	R	Norman Sanderson		0	521	49

Methodology

The 2021 North Carolina Missed Votes Scorecard

MISSED VOTES METHODOLOGY – NORTH CAROLINA 2021

The Club for Growth Foundation publishes the “Missed Votes” scorecard so the public can see how often North Carolina’s elected state lawmakers show up to vote on legislation.

The Foundation looked at 521 votes in the North Carolina Senate and 587 votes in the North Carolina House during the 2021 regular and special sessions. The votes were cast from 1/13/2021 – 11/29/2021. This is not an exhaustive list of votes. These floor votes include roll call votes on legislative bills and excludes attendance votes and votes cast in committee.

On any single roll call vote, if the lawmaker voted YEA (“Y”) or NAY (“N”), then the scorecard counted the lawmaker as casting a vote (+). If the lawmaker abstained or was not present or did not vote, then the scorecard labeled the lawmaker as missing the vote (-).

The Club for Growth Foundation makes no judgment on why a lawmaker misses votes. Lawmakers miss votes for a whole host of reasons, including medical issues, family concerns, prior commitments, purely political motivations, or other reasons. The Club for Growth Foundation has not analyzed why any lawmaker has missed a vote, and is simply publishing this quantified information for educational purposes only.

Due to situations such as retirements, personal issues, special elections, and appointments, there may be included lawmakers who have not served from start to finish. Their records are kept to showcase all members who voted during the legislative year.

There are inherent limitations in judging the overall qualifications of any legislator based on how many votes he or she has missed, and the Club for Growth Foundation does not endorse or oppose any legislator for public office.

Any mathematical discrepancies for these scores are due to rounding.

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