Eli Perry, former Representative for New York's 15th Congressional District

Perry was the representative for New York’s 15^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1873 to 1875.

He was previously the representative for New York’s 14^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1871 to 1873.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1871 to Mar 1875, Perry missed 234 of 991 roll call votes, which is 23.6%. This is on par with the median of 22.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1875. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1871 Mar-Apr	87	2	2.3%	1^st
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	89	9	10.1%	27^th
1872 Mar-May	156	43	27.6%	47^th
1872 Jun-Jun	35	35	100.0%	94^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	150	34	22.7%	50^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	78	14	17.9%	52^nd
1874 Mar-May	101	9	8.9%	21^st
1874 Jun-Jun	60	11	18.3%	43^rd
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	235	77	32.8%	67^th

Primary Sources

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

@unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
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

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Rep. Eli Perry

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources