The LA City Council has voted to fail an item 165 times…
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The LA City Council has voted to fail an item 165 times out of 124,331 votes. More interesting finds from this data below.
More interesting things I learned digging through this:
No councilmember has ever gone an entire tenure without voting no. Across 46 members and 23 years, Mark Ridley-Thomas came closest: six no votes during the shortest tenure in the record.
Twice, an item received no support at all.
Councilmembers are marked absent 53 times as often as they vote no: 17.60% of roll calls versus 0.33%. But the clerk’s system has no way to record an abstention, so a recusal looks the same as a no-show.
Failed votes peaked in 2011, not today. That year, 29 roll calls fell short of the eight ayes needed to pass, compared with 28 in 2025.
In 2016 and 2019, just one vote failed.
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More interesting things I learned digging through this:
No councilmember has ever gone an entire tenure without voting no. Across 46 members and 23 years, Mark Ridley-Thomas came closest: six no votes during the shortest tenure in the record.
Twice, an item received no support at all.
Councilmembers are marked absent 53 times as often as they vote no: 17.60% of roll calls versus 0.33%. But the clerk’s system has no way to record an abstention, so a recusal looks the same as a no-show.
Failed votes peaked in 2011, not today. That year, 29 roll calls fell short of the eight ayes needed to pass, compared with 28 in 2025.
In 2016 and 2019, just one vote failed.
#education
source
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