City Council ▸ Councillors ▸ David P. Maher

David P. Maher

9 terms, 2000-17.

Mayor 2010; Mayor 2014

5805 terms unmeasuredpapers filed91vs their councils100 = the median member1,973roll calls on record1,978roll-call events while seated384.1% of 920 rolls that name who was missingrecorded absent1,940votes recorded16of 882 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

Term	Role	Papers	Index	Roll calls	Votes	Against
2000–01	Councillor	91	89	265	247	0
2002–03	Councillor	40	100	213	198	3
2004–05	Councillor	–	not enough of the record	198	198	–
2006–07	Councillor	–	not enough of the record	18	18	–
2008–09	Councillor	–	not enough of the record	162	162	–
2010–11	Mayor	–	not enough of the record	206	206	0
2012–13	Councillor	–	not enough of the record	179	179	–
2014–15	Mayor	0	not enough of the record	182	182	1
2016–17	Councillor	449	83	550	550	12

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

Councillor	Contested	Agreement	Overall
Timothy J. Toomey	41 of 53	77%	99% of 1,929 votes
E. Denise Simmons	36 of 51	71%	99% of 1,626 votes
Marc C. McGovern	35 of 51	69%	98% of 719 votes

Least often

Councillor	Contested	Agreement	Overall
Craig A. Kelley	19 of 52	37%	97% of 1,268 votes
Dennis J. Carlone	27 of 51	53%	97% of 703 votes
Jan Devereux	27 of 47	57%	96% of 545 votes