Rep. Gillis Long

Former Representative from Louisiana's 8^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1973-1986	Representative	Louisiana's 8^th District
1963-1964	Representative	Louisiana's 8^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Long was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Long’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Long to other members of the House of Representatives in the 99^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

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Voting Record

From Jan 1963 to Jan 1985, Long missed 504 of 7,075 roll call votes, which is 7.1%. This is worse than the median of 5.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1985. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1963 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	42	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	33	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	3	8.3%	59^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	9	4.8%	29^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	8	6.2%	58^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	7	3.9%	29^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	4	5.2%	30^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	15	8.9%	48^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	4	2.7%	28^th
1974 Oct-Dec	139	19	13.7%	71^st
1975 Jan-Mar	68	6	8.8%	69^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	7	3.5%	35^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	5	3.4%	33^rd
1975 Oct-Dec	190	15	7.9%	71^st
1976 Jan-Mar	106	3	2.8%	33^rd
1976 Apr-Jun	265	24	9.1%	55^th
1976 Jul-Sep	280	6	2.1%	21^st
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	99	6	6.1%	60^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	22	8.1%	62^nd
1977 Jul-Sep	198	3	1.5%	19^th
1977 Oct-Dec	133	10	7.5%	65^th
1978 Jan-Mar	148	13	8.8%	65^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	39	13.0%	77^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	17	5.5%	41^st
1978 Oct-Oct	75	2	2.7%	23^rd
1979 Jan-Mar	63	3	4.8%	61^st
1979 Apr-Jun	216	88	40.7%	99^th
1979 Jul-Sep	197	10	5.1%	47^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	3	1.6%	7^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	23	15.5%	78^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	6	3.1%	19^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	8	4.2%	32^nd
1980 Oct-Dec	67	2	3.0%	20^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	8	53.3%	99^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	12	13.5%	80^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	5	4.7%	49^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	18	12.7%	80^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	2	4.2%	37^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	4	3.4%	40^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	14	7.3%	58^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	10	10.1%	57^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	8	18.6%	86^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	2	1.1%	10^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	2	1.5%	23^rd
1983 Oct-Nov	143	4	2.8%	26^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	11	20.8%	90^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	2	0.9%	8^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	6	6.3%	59^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	6	16.7%	79^th
1985 Jan-Mar	6	0	0.0%	0^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Gillis Long [D-LA8, 1973-1986] leaves office as Representative for Louisiana's 8th congressional district

Oct 18, 1986

Elections and Offices

Rep. Gillis Long [D-LA8, 1973-1986] takes office as Representative for Louisiana's 8th congressional district

Jan 03, 1973

Elections and Offices

Rep. Gillis Long [D-LA8, 1973-1986] leaves office as Representative for Louisiana's 8th congressional district

Oct 03, 1964

Elections and Offices

Rep. Gillis Long [D-LA8, 1973-1986] takes office as Representative for Louisiana's 8th congressional district

Jan 09, 1963