Rep. John Elston
Former Representative for California’s 6th District
Elston was the representative for California’s 6th congressional district and was most recently a Republican (1917-1923) and previously a Progressive (1915-1917). He served from 1915 to 1923.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1915 to Dec 1921, Elston missed 251 of 902 roll call votes, which is 27.8%. This is on par with the median of 27.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1921. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
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
