Alfred Ely, former Representative from New York's 29th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1861-1863	Representative	New York's 29^th District
1859-1861	Representative	New York's 29^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1859 to Mar 1863, Ely missed 297 of 1,062 roll call votes, which is 28.0%. This is worse than the median of 27.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1863. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	2	2.9%	17^th
1860 Mar-May	126	41	32.5%	76^th
1860 Jun-Jun	97	26	26.8%	44^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	20	14.2%	38^th
1861 Jul-Aug	51	29	56.9%	87^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	74	46	62.2%	91^st
1862 Mar-May	113	47	41.6%	78^th
1862 Jun-Jul	122	17	13.9%	16^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	269	69	25.7%	38^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000