user: ### NOW ANSWER:
Question: Name the total number of first elected for Sol Bloom
Columns: ['District', 'Incumbent', 'Party', 'First elected', 'Result', 'Candidates']
Types: ['text', 'text', 'text', 'real', 'text', 'text']
Sample row: ['New York 16', 'Ellsworth B. Buck', 'Republican', 1944.0, 'Re-elected', 'Ellsworth B. Buck (R) 61.2% John Burry (D) 38.8%']
SQL:

assistant: SELECT COUNT("First elected") FROM "Table" WHERE "Incumbent" = 'Sol Bloom';