Dennis Smelt, former Representative from Georgia's -1th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1807-1811	Representative	Georgia
1805-1807	Representative	Georgia

Voting Record

From Feb 1806 to Mar 1811, Smelt missed 135 of 579 roll call votes, which is 23.3%. This is worse than the median of 19.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1811. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1805-Apr 1806	6	6	100.0%	97^th
Dec 1806-Mar 1807	50	4	8.0%	22^nd
1807 Oct-Dec	35	6	17.1%	73^rd
1808 Jan-Mar	49	2	4.1%	12^th
1808 Apr-Apr	35	4	11.4%	21^st
Nov 1808-Mar 1809	111	44	39.6%	85^th
1809 May-Jun	36	34	94.4%	98^th
Dec 1809-Jan 1810	29	1	3.4%	9^th
1810 Feb-Apr	121	14	11.6%	22^nd
1810 May-May	3	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1810-Mar 1811	104	20	19.2%	43^rd

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