John Elliott, former Representative from Kentucky's 6th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1857-1859	Representative	Kentucky's 6^th District
1855-1857	Representative	Kentucky's 6^th District
1853-1855	Representative	Kentucky's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1853 to Mar 1859, Elliott missed 762 of 1,871 roll call votes, which is 40.7%. This is worse than the median of 22.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1859. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	113	60	53.1%	94^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	196	64.3%	96^th
1854 Aug-Aug	33	12	36.4%	85^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	55	35.5%	79^th
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	173	29	16.8%	51^st
1856 Apr-Jul	199	78	39.2%	73^rd
1856 Aug-Aug	73	21	28.8%	72^nd
1856 Aug-Aug	44	16	36.4%	87^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	231	79	34.2%	78^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	103	44	42.7%	86^th
1858 Mar-May	179	59	33.0%	77^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	27	39.7%	71^st
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	86	44.1%	92^nd

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