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Doug Bereuter

[Congressional biography]

Born: October 6, 1939 in York, NE

Education:

  • University of Nebraska, B.A., 1961
  • Harvard University, M.C.P., 1966, M.P.A., 1973

Military Service:

  • U.S. Army, 1963-1965

Career:

  • NE Department of Economic Development, 1967-1968
  • NE Office of Planning & Programming, 1968-1970
  • NE Crime Commission, 1969-1971

Elected Office:

  • NE Legislature, 1975-1978


Election Results for Doug Bereuter


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1978 38 NE R U.S. House District 01 Primary 1 34,790 52.4%
1978 38 NE R U.S. House District 01 General 1 99,013 58.1%
1980 40 NE R U.S. House District 01 General 1 160,705 78.6%
1982 42 NE R U.S. House District 01 Primary 1 63,170 99.9%
1982 42 NE R U.S. House District 01 General 1 137,675 75.1%
1984 44 NE R U.S. House District 01 Primary 1 49,988 99.9%
1984 44 NE R U.S. House District 01 General 1 158,836 74.1%
1986 46 NE R U.S. House District 01 Primary 1 59,367 91.3%
1986 46 NE R U.S. House District 01 General 1 121,772 64.4%
1988 48 NE R U.S. House District 01 Primary 1 64,590 99.7%
1988 48 NE R U.S. House District 01 General 1 146,231 66.9%
1990 50 NE R U.S. House District 01 Primary 1 59,898 99.7%
1990 50 NE R U.S. House District 01 General 1 129,654 64.7%
1992 52 NE R U.S. House District 01 Primary 1 58,005 98.5%
1992 52 NE R U.S. House District 01 General 1 142,713 59.7%
1994 54 NE R U.S. House District 01 Primary 1 49,524 98.7%
1994 54 NE R U.S. House District 01 General 1 117,967 62.6%
1996 56 NE R U.S. House District 01 Primary 1 52,914 99.0%
1996 56 NE R U.S. House District 01 General 1 157,108 70.0%
1998 58 NE R U.S. House District 01 Primary 1 66,033 99.3%
1998 58 NE R U.S. House District 01 General 1 136,058 73.5%
2000 60 NE R U.S. House District 01 Primary 1 50,365 99.0%
2000 60 NE R U.S. House District 01 General 1 155,485 66.2%
2002 62 NE R U.S. House District 01 Primary 1 40,911 100.0%
2002 62 NE R U.S. House District 01 General 1 133,013 85.4%


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



Ideology Data for Doug Bereuter


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
1979 39 House 78 22 75 25 D 46 53 98 32 74
1980 40 House 72 26 76 23 D 53 44 98 33 58
1981 41 House 79 19 75 23 R 68 30 98 20 83
1982 42 House 79 21 77 23 R 75 25 99 26 68
1983 43 House 70 29 69 26 R 61 37 96 25 73
1984 44 House 71 29 64 35 R 54 43 98 35 57
1985 45 House 78 18 74 22 R 58 43 98 16 68
1986 46 House 78 22 73 26 R 58 42 98 15 59
1987 47 House 81 19 63 35 R 59 41 98 24 57
1988 48 House 87 13 79 20 R 56 42 99 20 76
1989 49 House 80 17 58 41 R 69 29 99 15 61
1990 50 House 87 13 73 25 R 62 38 99 17 67
1991 51 House 78 22 77 22 R 79 21 99 10 85
1992 52 House 73 25 77 21 R 68 30 98 20 78
1993 53 House 84 16 80 19 D 53 47 99 10 88
1994 54 House 81 17 77 22 D 55 45 99 16 71
1995 55 House 83 17 86 14 D 32 68 99 21 63
1996 56 House 82 18 82 18 D 51 49 99 20 60
1997 57 House 84 13 84 13 D 40 60 98 20 68
1998 58 House 93 7 83 16 D 28 72 99 5 64
1999 59 House 77 19 D 33 65 96 35 63
2000 60 House 82 18 D 32 66 99 10 64
2001 61 House 88 9 R 81 16 98 10 72
2002 62 House 84 14 R 89 11 97 10 72
2003 63 House 84 15 R 84 16 98 15 64
2004 64 House 48 10 R 52 12 62 0 59
Lifetime conservative rating:   68%


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.