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LA Council Roll-Call Database

Every recorded Los Angeles City Council roll call from July 2003 through August 2026: 124,331 roll calls and 1.86 million member-votes. Compare recorded votes and absences by councilmember, meeting date and council item.

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Los Angeles City Clerk
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What ships
1.86M member-votes. CSV, column dictionary, licensing terms, SHA-256 manifest.
Files
  • council_member_votes.csv101.6 MB, 1,864,887 rows
  • council_rollcalls.csv37.7 MB, 124,331 rows
  • disputed_rollcalls.csv0.9 MB, 2,306 rows
  • dissent_by_year.csv3 KB, 24 rows
  • member_career_summary.csv4 KB, 46 rows
  • member_dissent_by_year.csv28 KB, 385 rows
  • member_name_crosswalk.csv3 KB, 54 rows

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Columns in council_member_votes.csv

  • voteid
  • meeting_date
  • member_id
  • member_name
  • cd
  • vote
  • is_vacant_seat

Dissent by era, on a measure a shrinking agenda can't inflate

Votes of no per 1,000 member-votes cast

0369121.482003-095.272010-131.102014-196.362020-2412.082025-26

The gray bar is the 2014-19 baseline era; 2026 is partial.

Source: Basin Data, la-council-rollcall-2003-2026. 124,331 roll calls, 2003-07-01 to 2026-08-12, vacancies excluded.