Koln McKay, former Representative from Utah's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1971-1980	Representative	Utah's 1^st District

Sponsorship Analysis

McKay was a moderate Democratic follower according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from McKay’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare McKay to other members of the House of Representatives in the 96^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 1971 to Dec 1980, McKay missed 594 of 5,771 roll call votes, which is 10.3%. This is worse than the median of 7.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1980. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1971 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	58^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	7	7.8%	31^st
1971 Jul-Sep	72	8	11.1%	63^rd
1971 Oct-Dec	133	12	9.0%	42^nd
1972 Jan-Mar	64	6	9.4%	55^th
1972 Apr-Jun	113	29	25.7%	85^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	7	6.9%	46^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	8	16.0%	59^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	11	30.6%	93^rd
1973 Apr-Jun	187	28	15.0%	82^nd
1973 Jul-Sep	130	2	1.5%	20^th
1973 Oct-Dec	179	24	13.4%	81^st
1974 Jan-Mar	77	7	9.1%	54^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	19	11.2%	57^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	16	10.8%	80^th
1974 Oct-Dec	140	15	10.7%	61^st
1975 Jan-Mar	68	4	5.9%	50^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	17	8.5%	66^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	8	5.5%	50^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	5	2.6%	28^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	6	5.7%	53^rd
1976 Apr-Jun	267	37	13.9%	75^th
1976 Jul-Sep	280	5	1.8%	16^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	97	9	9.3%	76^th
1977 Apr-Jun	272	25	9.2%	67^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	6	3.0%	32^nd
1977 Oct-Dec	134	2	1.5%	16^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	11	7.4%	53^rd
1978 Apr-Jun	300	33	11.0%	66^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	21	6.8%	48^th
1978 Oct-Oct	72	7	9.7%	72^nd
1979 Jan-Mar	63	10	15.9%	79^th
1979 Apr-Jun	217	40	18.4%	88^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	15	7.6%	57^th
1979 Oct-Dec	188	39	20.7%	84^th
1980 Jan-Mar	147	14	9.5%	55^th
1980 Apr-Jun	194	18	9.3%	55^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	43	22.4%	88^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	18	26.9%	80^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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Koln McKay [D-UT1, 1971-1980] leaves office as Representative for Utah's 1st congressional district

Dec 16, 1980

Elections and Offices

Rep. Koln McKay [D-UT1, 1971-1980] takes office as Representative for Utah's 1st congressional district

Jan 21, 1971

Rep. Koln McKay

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices