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City CouncilCouncillors ▸ Patricia Nolan

Patricia Nolan

4 terms, 2020-27.

926papers filed95vs their councils100 = the median member8,683roll calls on record8,629roll-call events while seated881.0% of 8,629 rolls that name who was missingrecorded absent8,683votes recorded122of 8,683 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
2020–21Councillor332872,0532,05330
2022–23Councillor320962,1642,16452
2024–25Councillor272984,0684,06832
2026–27Councillor21003983988

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
Dennis J. Carlone297 of 37679%98% of 3,864 votes
Joan Pickett26 of 3476%99% of 1,581 votes
Sumbul Siddiqui429 of 56376%98% of 8,370 votes

Least often

CouncillorContestedAgreementOverall
Timothy R. Flaherty12 of 2941%96% of 396 votes
Timothy J. Toomey57 of 13044%96% of 1,976 votes
Ayah A. Al-Zubi12 of 2450%97% of 344 votes