TheCambridge Record
City CouncilCouncillors ▸ David Clem

David Clem

1 term, 1976-77.

130papers filed100vs their councils100 = the median member158roll calls on record113roll-call events while seated88.5% of 94 rolls that name who was missingrecorded absent100votes recorded8of 81 votes on rolls that name each sideagainst the majority

Counts are what the record holds, not what happened: coverage thins the further back you look, and a term with little recovered will show small numbers for everyone who sat in it. The index is the figure to compare between people. It measures this councillor against the others on their own council, so the same gaps sit in the numerator and the denominator and largely cancel. Where this comes from.

Term by term

TermRolePapersIndexRoll callsVotesAgainst
1976–77Councillor1301001581008

Who they voted with

Rated on contested roll calls only, the votes with at least one nay: the council adopts most business unanimously, and agreeing on a unanimous vote says nothing about affinity. Pairs sharing fewer than 10 contested votes are not rated. Agreement across all shared votes, unanimous included, is shown for context.

Most often

CouncillorContestedAgreementOverall
Barbara Ackermann31 of 3394%98% of 93 votes
Francis Duehay28 of 3288%96% of 95 votes
Saundra Graham24 of 3177%92% of 85 votes

Least often

CouncillorContestedAgreementOverall
Walter Sullivan7 of 3023%72% of 82 votes
Thomas Danehy8 of 2829%73% of 75 votes
Daniel Clinton10 of 3330%75% of 91 votes