Rep. Smith Ely

Former Representative for New York’s 7^th District

Ely was the representative for New York’s 7^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1875 to 1877.

He was previously the representative for New York’s 7^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1871 to 1873.

Bioguide

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1871 to Dec 1876, Ely missed 348 of 732 roll call votes, which is 47.5%. This is much worse than the median of 26.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1876. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1871 Mar-Apr	87	14	16.1%	63^rd
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	89	34	38.2%	81^st
1872 Mar-May	156	75	48.1%	89^th
1872 Jun-Jun	35	33	94.3%	89^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	150	64	42.7%	83^rd
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	59	23	39.0%	85^th
1876 Apr-Jul	106	65	61.3%	90^th
1876 Aug-Aug	37	33	89.2%	84^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	13	7	53.8%	94^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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Voting Record

Missed Votes

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