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William Walsh

5 terms, 1986-95.

1,563papers filed104vs their councils100 = the median member1,589roll calls on record1,514roll-call events while seated101.1% of 937 rolls that name who was missingrecorded absent1,497votes recorded62of 920 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
1986–87	Councillor	149	102	359	326	9
1988–89	Councillor	259	146	286	276	5
1990–91	Councillor	369	78	338	323	27
1992–93	Councillor	549	107	427	406	15
1994–95	Councillor	237	86	179	166	6

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	69 of 81	85%	99% of 1,212 votes
Sheila Russell	78 of 102	76%	98% of 1,491 votes
Thomas Danehy	16 of 21	76%	99% of 533 votes

Least often

Councillor	Contested	Agreement	Overall
Jonathan Myers	11 of 71	15%	93% of 882 votes
Alice Wolf	15 of 89	17%	94% of 1,306 votes
Katherine Triantafillou	2 of 10	20%	95% of 164 votes