Ephraim Smart, former Representative from Maine's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1851-1853	Representative	Maine's 5^th District
1847-1849	Representative	Maine's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1847 to Mar 1853, Smart missed 264 of 920 roll call votes, which is 28.7%. This is worse than the median of 26.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1853. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	93	12	12.9%	39^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	27	17.9%	39^th
1848 Aug-Aug	70	21	30.0%	70^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	18	11.6%	23^rd
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	96	17	17.7%	33^rd
1852 Apr-Jul	177	52	29.4%	50^th
1852 Aug-Aug	64	54	84.4%	90^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	63	55.3%	87^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