House · Democrat

Nika C. Elugardo

Former member, served 2019–2022 in the sessions covered here · 15th Suffolk

Data through FY2026; built October 19, 2026.

Residence

Boston

First elected

House 2018

Left office

ran for the Senate in 2022 (not elected); term ended January 4, 2023

Seats held, General Courts 189–194 (the FY2017–FY2026 budgets)
Session	Chamber	District	Lines	Note
191st (2019–20)	House	15th Suffolk	2011 lines
192nd (2021–22)	House	15th Suffolk	2011 lines

Posts and stipends

No stipend payments to Nika C. Elugardo are recorded for 2016–2026.

Posts and stipends by session (stipends by calendar year)
Session	Posts	First year	Second year
191st (2019–20)	No post recorded	$0	$0
192nd (2021–22)	No post recorded	$0	$0

Posts: the Legislature’s leadership and roster records as compiled for this project; where those name no post, the member’s committee chair, vice-chair and ranking roles from the Legislature’s member profiles. Stipends: additional compensation in the Comptroller’s payroll data (CTHRU dataset 9ttk-7vz6), 2016–2026; 2026 is the year to date. Stipends for 2015 are not available. Base salary is not included.

The district

15th Suffolk on its 2011 lines: 2 cities and towns, 43,248 residents (2020).

Boston 90%, 6% of the town · Brookline 10%, 7% of the town

Percentages are each place’s share of the district’s 2020 residents; for a town split between districts, the share of the town inside this one follows.

Population-weighted Fairness Index of the district’s cities and towns: 40 for all state aid and 34 for discretionary money (50 is a fair share).

Local earmarks are counted three ways. District money uses the first, clauses that name a place in the district; the second table adds organizations located in the district (placed in the district) and state facilities located there (everything placed). Three ways to count a local earmark.

District money, first measure: enacted earmarks in clauses naming a place in the district, by session (district money, not the member’s)
Session	District	Dollars	In corrective clauses	Per resident per budget, rank	Without corrective clauses, rank
191st (2019–20)	15th Suffolk	$393,000	$62,000	$4.54 · 63rd of 160	$3.83 · 73rd of 160
192nd (2021–22)	15th Suffolk	$865,000	$69,000	$10.00 · 37th of 160	$9.20 · 41st of 160

District money is where enacted earmarks land, by the place a clause names, mapped to districts by 2020 population; it is not attributed to the member and does not include leadership’s base-text money that names no place. Ranks are of district money per resident among the chamber’s districts, 1 = most. “In corrective clauses” is the part carried by a Ways and Means chair’s corrective amendments, which is leadership’s money; the last column gives the per-resident figure and rank without it. Sessions are labeled by the General Court that enacted each budget. Per-resident figures use the district as drawn for each session (2011 lines through the 192nd General Court, 2021 lines from the 193rd), so they will not equal a session’s dollars divided by the resident count above.

The same district on the other two measures, by session (enacted; includes any corrective-clause money)
Session	District	Placed in the district	Per resident per budget, rank	Everything placed	Per resident per budget, rank
191st (2019–20)	15th Suffolk	$877,000	$10.14 · 26th of 160	$877,000	$10.14 · 28th of 160
192nd (2021–22)	15th Suffolk	$1.9M	$22.36 · 13th of 160	$1.9M	$22.43 · 16th of 160

Budget amendments

Nika C. Elugardo sponsored 49 budget amendments in FY2017–FY2026, asking for $11.6 million in all.

Amendments sponsored

FY2017–FY2026 budgets

Adopted, known outcomes

31%

11 of 36

Chamber rate, same ask sizes

56%

expected at the chamber’s rates

Of the 36 with a known outcome, 11 were adopted (31%). At the chamber’s adoption rate for amendments of the same size, about 20 (56%) would have been.

Largest enacted items matched to an amendment Nika C. Elugardo filed (strong text matches)
Year	Amount	Enacted budget text (excerpt)	Amendment
FY2023	$100,000	“the Boston Housing Authority for the Stable Housing and Reintegration Pilot Program, SHARPP, partnership to provide reentry housing and support…”	H4700 #542
FY2020	$100,000 (shared two ways)	“the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston”	H3800 #477
FY2023	$50,000	“the Tobin Community Center for summer and fall events to reduce violence and to build unity and civic leadership among street- involved youth in…”	H4700 #1438
FY2023	$25,000	“Roslindale Village Main Street, Inc. for training and resources”	H4700 #700
FY2020	$15,000	“the Daughters of Saint Paul in the city of Boston”	H3800 #473

Strong matches: 5 enacted items, $290,000 (the member’s share where several amendments claim one clause). A further one weaker text match is not listed; attribution is inferred from amendment text and is less certain there. House attribution is inferred throughout, because the House adopts most amendments inside consolidated amendments.

28 outcomes are inferred by matching amendment text to the House’s consolidated amendments, because the House records most amendments only as “Consolidated A–G.” Ask size is the larger of the earmark dollars and the line-item change an amendment requests; bands: no dollar amount, under $50,000, $50,000–$250,000, $250,000–$1 million, $1–5 million, $5 million or more. Leadership’s unattributed base-text and corrective-amendment money is never assigned to a member. The comparison describes outcomes; it is not a measure of merit.

Bills sponsored

Nika C. Elugardo filed 36 bills as lead sponsor in these sessions; one was enacted on its own. In completed sessions, 3% of their lead bills were enacted on their own, against chamber medians of 3% to 4% for the same sessions.

Most bills die in every legislature, and many policies pass inside other bills; the chamber median for the same session is the fair comparison.

Bills filed as lead sponsor, by session and outcome
Session	Chamber	Lead bills	Enacted	Sent to study	Reported favorably, then died	No action	Enacted rate	Chamber median	Cosponsored
191st (2019–20)	House	14	0	10	3	1	0%	4%	557
192nd (2021–22)	House	22	1	10	10	1	5%	3%	316

Enacted bills as lead sponsor

H4205 (192nd): An Act relative to certain affordable housing in the Jamaica Plain section of the city of Boston · Chapter 104 of the Acts of 2022

Outcomes are the furthest point each bill reached in the record. “Folded into an enacted bill” means the history names the enacted bill that absorbed it. “Passed both branches; no chapter recorded” means the bill was enacted by both branches and laid before the Governor, with no chapter or veto in the history; in the 194th General Court such bills are shown as laid before the Governor (pending). The 194th General Court is in session until January 2027, so its open bills are pending, not dead, and its rates (*) are not comparable with completed sessions. Chairs and leaders control the calendar, which raises their rates. Source: malegislature.gov bill histories.

Recorded votes on accountability measures

Nika C. Elugardo cast 40 yes-or-no votes on the 40 accountability roll calls in this file (22 yes, 18 no).

Roll calls on rules, audits, public records, term limits and pay
Date	Measure	Vote	Chamber result
January 30, 2019	Amendment 1.0 (Jonathan Hecht): Time to review bills	Yes	Yeas 55, nays 103
January 30, 2019	Amendment 2.0 (Jonathan Hecht): Time to review amendments	Yes	Yeas 47, nays 111
January 30, 2019	Amendment 3.0 (Jonathan Hecht): Committee materials and votes	Yes	Yeas 49, nays 109
January 30, 2019	Collective bargaining for House employees (curb on leadership control of staff); not a disclosure/power-of-leadership rule in the narrow sense (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 9, nays 149
January 30, 2019	Amendment 11.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Access to Information	Yes	Yeas 40, nays 118
January 30, 2019	Amendment 12.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Emergency Scheduling of Hearings	No	Yeas 35, nays 123
January 30, 2019	Amendment 14.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Polls – 2 Hours	No	Yeas 44, nays 114
January 30, 2019	Amendment 16.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): House Audits	Yes	Yeas 35, nays 123
January 30, 2019	Amendment 17.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): HWM Reports on Bills	No	Yeas 33, nays 125
January 30, 2019	Amendment 19.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Local Aid Resolution	No	Yeas 32, nays 126
January 30, 2019	Amendment 20.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Review of Consolidated Amendments	No	Yeas 32, nays 125
January 30, 2019	Amendment 22.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Votes on Website	Yes	Yeas 44, nays 113
January 30, 2019	Fingerprint remote voting from committee rooms (contested meaning)	No	Yeas 32, nays 125
January 30, 2019	Amendment 25.0 (Marc T. Lombardo): Matters considered in an informal session	No	Yeas 32, nays 125
January 30, 2019	Amendment 31.0 (John H. Rogers): Relative to Rule 18C	Yes	Yeas 43, nays 113
January 30, 2019	Amendment 32.0 (Patrick Joseph Kearney): relative to Rule 100 ( c ) 3	No	Yeas 5, nays 152
January 30, 2019	Amendment 33.0 (Patrick Joseph Kearney): relative to Rule 20A and Rule 33A	No	Yeas 5, nays 152
January 30, 2019	Equitable office space (leadership allocates offices) (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 11, nays 146
January 30, 2019	Amendment 38.0 (Denise Provost): To assure adequate time to prepare and file amendments	No	Yeas 44, nays 113
January 30, 2019	Amendment 41.0 (Russell E. Holmes): Equal Pay Amendment II	No	Yeas 5, nays 152
January 30, 2019	House rules (H2019), rules package: on adoption of the order (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 125, nays 32
January 30, 2019	Conference-committee appointment deadline; adopted 157-0 (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 157, nays 0
January 30, 2019	Amendment 11.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Roll Calls on Website	Yes	Yeas 47, nays 110
January 30, 2019	Amendment 12.0 (Marc T. Lombardo): Informal Session	No	Yeas 36, nays 121
January 30, 2019	Joint rules (H2021), rules package: on adoption of the order (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 157, nays 0
February 24, 2021	Amendment 8.0 (Erika Uyterhoeven): Public Committee Votes and Testimony	Yes	Yeas 36, nays 122
February 24, 2021	Amendment 3.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Electronic Poll	Yes	Yeas 38, nays 121
February 24, 2021	Amendment 6.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Procurement Amendment	No	Yeas 34, nays 125
February 24, 2021	Amendment 11.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Conference Committee Report	No	Yeas 35, nays 123
February 24, 2021	Joint rules (H68), rules package: on adoption of the Order (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 128, nays 31
July 7, 2021	Remote voting for members on military duty; adopted 160-0 (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 160, nays 0
July 7, 2021	Amendment 2.0 (Tami L. Gouveia): Speaker Term Limits	Yes	Yeas 35, nays 125
July 7, 2021	Amendment 6.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Emergency Scheduling of Hearings	No	Yeas 30, nays 129
July 7, 2021	Amendment 9.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Polls - 2 Hours	No	Yeas 35, nays 124
July 7, 2021	Amendment 11.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Access to Information	No	Yeas 33, nays 126
July 7, 2021	Amendment 13.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Review of Consolidated Amendments	No	Yeas 32, nays 127
July 7, 2021	Amendment 12.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Votes on Website	Yes	Yeas 38, nays 121
July 7, 2021	Amendment 16.0 (Erika Uyterhoeven): Public Committee Votes	Yes	Yeas 41, nays 117
July 7, 2021	Amendment 3.0 (Christopher M. Markey): Review Period for Released Bills	Yes	Yeas 39, nays 119
July 7, 2021	House rules (H3930), rules package: on adoption of the order (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 129, nays 29

Votes marked “contested meaning” are rules-package and public-records passage votes; reform advocates were on both sides of them. Descriptions are the project’s plain summaries of each question, or the question as recorded for rules-package roll calls; the official record is on malegislature.gov. Votes are facts; no score is computed.

Campaign money in

Nika C. Elugardo’s committee reported $139,000 in contributions of $250 or more in years the member served, 2019–2022.

By year (years in the Legislature)
Year	Contributions
2019	$17,000
2020	$20,000
2021	$15,000
2022	$87,000

By kind of contributor
Kind	Total	Share
Individuals	$130,000	94%
Political committees and PACs	$5,000	4%
Unions and associations	$3,550	3%

Individuals’ money by the employer they reported
Employer reported	Share
A named employer	58%
Self-employed	16%
Retired	3%
Not employed	19%
Not reported or withheld	4%

Not counted as contributions: $42,000 in other receipts of $250 or more in the same years (candidate loans and the candidate’s own money, transfers, refunds, bank interest and aggregated small receipts).

The same committee also reported $95,000 in years the member was not in the Legislature (2017, 2018, 2023), for example while running for another office. Those receipts are not in the totals above.

Largest employers and organizations
Employer or organization	Kind	Total	Contributions
PARTNERSHIP FOR DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION	individuals, by employer	$5,000	5
EMMANUEL GOSPEL CENTER	individuals, by employer	$4,000	12
NOTEFLIGHT	individuals, by employer	$4,000	4
MOVEMENT VOTER PROJECT	individuals, by employer	$3,000	3
STRATEGY MATTERS	individuals, by employer	$2,250	3
MA & NORTHERN NE LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL POL ACTION COMM	committee or PAC	$1,500	3
GOOGLE	individuals, by employer	$1,500	2
LPRS	individuals, by employer	$1,500	3
BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS	individuals, by employer	$1,500	3
BOSTON WATER AND SEWER	individuals, by employer	$1,500	2

Source: Office of Campaign and Political Finance, itemized receipts of $250 or more since 2015; OCPF filer record: Elugardo Committee (CPF 16694). Individuals are grouped by the employer they reported; no individual contributor is named, and an employer field that is a person’s name is withheld. Massachusetts bars business contributions to candidates. Employer shows affiliation, not instruction.

Sources

Every figure traces to a public record.

Facts only: posts, stipends, sponsored amendments, enacted items, roll-call votes and district money. No score or grade is computed. Associations shown here are not evidence of cause. Method.