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Leonard Russell

5 terms, 1974-77, 1980-85.

Mayor 1984

863papers filed142vs their councils100 = the median member1,079roll calls on record919roll-call events while seated13116.6% of 787 rolls that name who was missingrecorded absent781votes recorded31of 649 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
1974–75	Councillor	125	117	248	78	2
1976–77	Councillor	156	120	152	96	9
1980–81	Councillor	145	121	230	218	8
1982–83	Councillor	135	131	261	223	5
1984–85	Mayor	302	220	188	166	7

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
Daniel Clinton	66 of 86	77%	96% of 519 votes
Walter Sullivan	87 of 115	76%	96% of 663 votes
Alfred Vellucci	79 of 122	65%	94% of 756 votes

Least often

Councillor	Contested	Agreement	Overall
Alice Wolf	4 of 14	29%	94% of 166 votes
Kevin Crane	12 of 33	36%	90% of 209 votes
Saundra Graham	52 of 110	47%	91% of 641 votes