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John Barrasso

[Congressional biography]

Born: July 21, 1952 in Reading, PA

Education:

  • Georgetown University, B.S., 1974, M.D., 1978

Career:

  • Orthopedic surgeon
  • Chief of Staff, Wyoming Medical Center

Elected Office:

  • WY Senate, 2002-2007
  • Appointed to the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2007 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Craig Thomas


Election Results for John Barrasso


Click on the Year to see the results of that election.

YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1996 43 WY R U.S. Senate Class 2 Primary 2 24,918 29.9%
2008 55 WY R U.S. Senate Class 1 Special Primary 1 68,194 100.0%
2008 55 WY R U.S. Senate Class 1 Special 1 183,063 73.3%
2012 59 WY R U.S. Senate Class 1 Primary 1 73,516 89.9%
2012 59 WY R U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 185,250 75.7%
2018 65 WY R U.S. Senate Class 1 Primary 1 74,292 64.8%
2018 65 WY R U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 136,210 67.0%


Age: Age as of July 1 of the year pertaining to this election.



Ideology Data for John Barrasso


Click on the number in the 'Conserv.' column to see all of the key votes for that year.

YearAgeBodyConservative
Coalition		Party UnityPresidential
Support		Vote %LiberalConserv.
P
2007 54 Senate 47 2 R 49 9 49 15 100
2008 55 Senate 99 1 R 72 28 100 5 96
2009 56 Senate 98 2 D 45 55 100 5 100
2010 57 Senate 98 2 D 38 62 100 0 100
2011 58 Senate 92 1 D 53 45 96 10 89
2012 59 Senate 89 11 D 46 54 99 5 88
2013 60 Senate 98 2 D 30 68 99 0 88
2014 61 Senate 95 3 D 52 47 99 15 84
2015 62 Senate 96 4 D 57 43 100 0 79
2016 63 Senate 96 4 D 52 48 99 0 84
2017 64 Senate 99 0 R 98 1 99 0 80
2018 65 Senate 99 1 R 97 3 100 0 86
2019 66 Senate 100 0 R 97 3 100 0 81
2020 67 Senate 100 0 R 94 6 100 0 78
2021 68 Senate 90 2 D 30 66 94 0 81
2022 69 Senate 83 4 D 21 78 86 89
2023 70 Senate 74 1 D 81 84
2024 71 Senate 77 0 D 76
Lifetime conservative rating:   87%


Age: Age as of July 1 of the year pertaining to this row.


Conservative Coalition: According to the publication "Congressional Quarterly" (CQ), this is an alliance of Republicans and Southern Democrats (from back when Southern Democrats tended to be conservative or at least moderate) against Northern Democrats in Congress.

This concept had significant meaning perhaps through the 1980's. These statistics stopped being computed after 2000 because conservative Democrats no longer existed except in very rare cases. The number under the green check is the percentage of time this Representative or Senator voted with the coalition; the number under the red X is the percentage of the time he opposed the coalition. The numbers often do not add to 100% because of instances where no vote was cast.


Party Unity: According to CQ, a Party Unity vote in Congress is one in which the parties were split, with a majority of Democrats opposing a majority of Republicans.

The number under the green check is the percentage of time this Representative or Senator voted with his party; the number under the red X is the percentage of the time he opposed the party. The numbers often do not add to 100% because of instances where no vote was cast.


Presidential Support: These are votes for which the President has stated his position, either in via a message to Congress, by press conference remarks or other public statements and documents.

The number under the green check is the percentage of time this Representative or Senator voted with the President; the number under the red X is the percentage of the time he opposed the President. The numbers often do not add to 100% because of instances where no vote was cast. The "P" column indicates the party of the President in each year.


Vote %: The percentage of roll-call votes in which this Representaive or Senator participated by voting "Yes" or "No" (as opposed to "Present" or not voting at all.)


Liberal Rating: These ratings are based on key votes as identifed by the ultra-liberal advocacy organization called "Americans for Democratic Action" (ADA). They have been rating members of Congress since 1947. The number shown is the percentage of the time this Representative or Senator took the liberal position on a key issue. The methodology behind the calculation can be found here. Ratings followed by an asterisk were calculated the "ADA way" due to missing data regarding key votes in the ADA source material.


Conservative Rating: These ratings are based on key votes as identifed by the conservative advocacy organization called the "American Conservative Union" (ACU). They have been rating members of Congress since 1971. The number shown is the percentage of the time this Representative or Senator took the conservative position on a key issue.

The liberal and conservative ratings are not expected to add to 100% because the two groups use different sets of key votes to determine their ratings. Conservative ratings from 1961 through 1970 (and for 2024) were calculated based on key votes as selected by the creators of this website.