Rep. Elton Gallegly

Former Representative from California's 24^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
2003-2013	Representative	California's 24^th District
1993-2002	Representative	California's 23^rd District
1987-1992	Representative	California's 21^st District

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Sponsorship Analysis

Gallegly was a moderate Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Gallegly’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Gallegly to other members of the House of Representatives in the 112^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Some of Gallegly’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1987 to Jan 2013, Gallegly missed 828 of 16,202 roll call votes, which is 5.1%. This is worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 2013. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1987 Jan-Mar	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	2	1.1%	16^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	1	1.1%	30^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	4	2.4%	23^rd
1988 Feb-Mar	49	1	2.0%	32^nd
1988 Apr-Jun	161	12	7.5%	75^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	3	2.0%	40^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	1	1.0%	22^nd
1989 Jul-Sep	128	1	0.8%	25^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	4	3.3%	46^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	1	1.7%	39^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	6	4.0%	58^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	1	0.5%	23^rd
1990 Oct-Oct	143	3	2.1%	54^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	1	1.6%	33^rd
1991 Apr-Jun	139	6	4.3%	60^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	5	6.2%	67^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	3	1.9%	41^st
1992 Jan-Mar	66	3	4.5%	55^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	6	3.2%	53^rd
1992 Jul-Sep	196	3	1.5%	43^rd
1992 Oct-Oct	41	3	7.3%	70^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	4	3.1%	54^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	5	2.6%	47^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	11	6.7%	88^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	12	12.6%	93^rd
1994 Apr-Jun	219	12	5.5%	78^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	17	12.0%	89^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	13	4.7%	85^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	16	8.5%	88^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	21	9.1%	94^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	12	6.5%	83^rd
1996 Jan-Mar	110	9	8.2%	84^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	22	12.1%	96^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	3	1.8%	45^th
1997 Jan-Mar	71	6	8.5%	84^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	3	1.7%	46^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	6	2.6%	62^nd
1997 Oct-Nov	163	11	6.7%	85^th
1998 Jan-Mar	89	7	7.9%	81^st
1998 Apr-Jun	185	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	1	1.4%	41^st
1999 Jan-Mar	73	2	2.7%	66^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	2	1.1%	31^st
1999 Jul-Sep	204	6	2.9%	74^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Jan-Mar	95	6	6.3%	65^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	5	1.8%	43^rd
2000 Jul-Sep	130	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Oct-Dec	101	2	2.0%	19^th
2001 Jan-Mar	75	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	7	4.7%	81^st
2001 Oct-Dec	153	7	4.6%	73^rd
2002 Jan-Mar	79	10	12.7%	93^rd
2002 Apr-Jun	203	5	2.5%	50^th
2002 Jul-Sep	141	11	7.8%	82^nd
2002 Oct-Nov	61	3	4.9%	68^th
2003 Jan-Mar	94	18	19.1%	99^th
2003 Apr-Jun	239	13	5.4%	82^nd
2003 Jul-Sep	193	12	6.2%	82^nd
2003 Oct-Dec	151	12	7.9%	79^th
2004 Jan-Mar	104	9	8.7%	75^th
2004 Apr-Jun	221	13	5.9%	78^th
2004 Jul-Sep	161	5	3.1%	50^th
2004 Oct-Dec	58	10	17.2%	89^th
2005 Jan-Mar	90	11	12.2%	95^th
2005 Apr-Jun	272	4	1.5%	46^th
2005 Jul-Sep	146	20	13.7%	96^th
2005 Oct-Dec	163	15	9.2%	88^th
2006 Jan-Mar	81	3	3.7%	71^st
2006 Apr-Jun	276	17	6.2%	88^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	16	10.1%	94^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	22	81.5%	100^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	10	4.7%	80^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	10	2.5%	65^th
2007 Jul-Sep	317	14	4.4%	80^th
2007 Oct-Dec	263	27	10.3%	91^st
2008 Jan-Mar	149	12	8.1%	77^th
2008 Apr-Jun	321	19	5.9%	75^th
2008 Jul-Sep	205	1	0.5%	15^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	2	13.3%	91^st
2009 Jan-Mar	174	23	13.2%	96^th
2009 Apr-Jun	303	4	1.3%	30^th
2009 Jul-Sep	268	3	1.1%	31^st
2009 Oct-Dec	246	3	1.2%	25^th
2010 Jan-Mar	195	10	5.1%	69^th
2010 Apr-Jun	219	16	7.3%	83^rd
2010 Jul-Sep	151	1	0.7%	22^nd
2010 Nov-Dec	99	21	21.2%	93^rd
2011 Jan-Mar	212	2	0.9%	45^th
2011 Apr-Jun	281	2	0.7%	33^rd
2011 Jul-Sep	247	13	5.3%	83^rd
2011 Oct-Dec	208	13	6.3%	82^nd
2012 Jan-Mar	151	2	1.3%	41^st
2012 Apr-Jun	299	35	11.7%	90^th
2012 Jul-Sep	152	33	21.7%	97^th
2012 Nov-Dec	51	25	49.0%	97^th
2013 Jan-Jan	5	0	0.0%	0^th

Primary Sources

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

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
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
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills