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Thomas Danehy

11 terms, 1968-89.

Mayor 1978

989papers filed80vs their councils100 = the median member2,135roll calls on record1,9241 term unmeasuredroll-call events while seated34323.6% of 1,451 rolls that name who was missingrecorded absent1,5331 term unmeasuredvotes recorded68of 1,060 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
1968–69	Councillor	9	90	3	–	–
1970–71	Councillor	17	77	25	1	–
1972–73	Councillor	55	53	237	31	1
1974–75	Councillor	107	100	236	66	10
1976–77	Councillor	70	54	140	82	15
1978–79	Mayor	180	103	212	189	10
1980–81	Councillor	84	70	199	188	5
1982–83	Councillor	83	81	237	200	7
1984–85	Councillor	102	74	266	241	8
1986–87	Councillor	143	98	331	297	5
1988–89	Councillor	139	78	249	238	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
Walter Sullivan	126 of 156	81%	98% of 1,325 votes
Daniel Clinton	66 of 83	80%	97% of 585 votes
Lawrence Frisoli	26 of 33	79%	95% of 145 votes

Least often

Councillor	Contested	Agreement	Overall
Alice Wolf	6 of 37	16%	96% of 749 votes
Barbara Ackermann	13 of 55	24%	75% of 171 votes
Saundra Graham	41 of 151	27%	91% of 1,270 votes