TheCambridge Record
City CouncilCouncillors ▸ David Wylie

David Wylie

4 terms, 1974-75, 1978-83.

263papers filed53vs their councils100 = the median member1,062roll calls on record882roll-call events while seated638.2% of 773 rolls that name who was missingrecorded absent817votes recorded32of 708 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
1974–75Councillor37352477510
1978–79Councillor754330227715
1980–81Councillor87722572464
1982–83Councillor64622562193

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
Francis Duehay133 of 15188%98% of 773 votes
David Sullivan47 of 5585%98% of 453 votes
Mary Ellen Preusser66 of 7984%95% of 275 votes

Least often

CouncillorContestedAgreementOverall
Kevin Crane39 of 10936%86% of 497 votes
Lawrence Frisoli26 of 6341%83% of 216 votes
Thomas Danehy42 of 9345%92% of 600 votes