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City CouncilCouncillors ▸ Joan Pickett

Joan Pickett

1 term, 2024-25.

92papers filed33vs their councils100 = the median member1,596roll calls on record1,761roll-call events while seated1629.2% of 1,761 rolls that name who was missingrecorded absent1,596votes recorded9of 1,596 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
2024–25Councillor92331,5961,5969

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
Paul F. Toner30 of 3586%100% of 1,588 votes
E. Denise Simmons28 of 3385%100% of 1,587 votes
Patricia Nolan26 of 3476%99% of 1,581 votes

Least often

CouncillorContestedAgreementOverall
Sumbul Siddiqui18 of 3551%99% of 1,589 votes
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler18 of 3551%99% of 1,561 votes
Marc C. McGovern21 of 3560%99% of 1,596 votes