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Richard Burr

[Congressional biography]

Born: November 30, 1955 in Charlottesville, VA

Education:

  • Wake Forest University, B.A., 1978

Career:

  • National sales manager for wholesale distribution company, 1978-1994


Election Results for Richard Burr


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1992 36 NC R U.S. House District 05 Primary 1 11,135 62.0%
1992 36 NC R U.S. House District 05 General 2 102,086 45.6%
1994 38 NC R U.S. House District 05 General 1 84,741 57.3%
1996 40 NC R U.S. House District 05 General 1 130,177 62.1%
1998 42 NC R U.S. House District 05 General 1 119,103 67.6%
2000 44 NC R U.S. House District 05 General 1 172,489 92.8%
2002 46 NC R U.S. House District 05 General 1 137,879 70.2%
2004 48 NC R U.S. Senate Class 3 Primary 1 302,391 87.9%
2004 48 NC R U.S. Senate Class 3 General 1 1,791,450 51.6%
2010 54 NC R U.S. Senate Class 3 Primary 1 297,993 80.1%
2010 54 NC R U.S. Senate Class 3 General 1 1,458,046 54.8%
2016 60 NC R U.S. Senate Class 3 Primary 1 627,263 61.4%
2016 60 NC R U.S. Senate Class 3 General 1 2,395,376 51.1%


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



Ideology Data for Richard Burr


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
1995 39 House 95 5 95 4 D 20 78 99 0 88
1996 40 House 96 4 96 4 D 32 68 99 5 100
1997 41 House 91 5 92 6 D 28 71 96 10 92
1998 42 House 93 5 89 8 D 23 73 97 5 92
1999 43 House 92 6 D 20 78 97 5 88
2000 44 House 90 7 D 20 74 96 5 88
2001 45 House 95 4 R 93 7 99 10 88
2002 46 House 93 5 R 96 4 97 0 96
2003 47 House 90 5 R 95 4 93 15 88
2004 48 House 87 8 R 70 21 88 11 87
2005 49 Senate 95 5 R 91 9 98 5 92
2006 50 Senate 93 6 R 87 11 99 10 92
2007 51 Senate 96 3 R 88 9 98 0 92
2008 52 Senate 96 1 R 74 22 96 5 79
2009 53 Senate 96 3 D 38 58 98 10 100
2010 54 Senate 93 4 D 41 54 97 5 92
2011 55 Senate 87 6 D 47 45 92 11 94
2012 56 Senate 91 6 D 41 51 95 0 88
2013 57 Senate 90 9 D 46 51 98 10 84
2014 58 Senate 90 6 D 55 41 97 10 88
2015 59 Senate 92 7 D 53 43 99 5 79
2016 60 Senate 81 19 D 55 45 100 10 60
2017 61 Senate 98 0 R 95 1 97 0 80
2018 62 Senate 94 3 R 89 3 95 0 77
2019 63 Senate 86 3 R 90 0 90 0 61
2020 64 Senate 86 1 R 82 3 85 0 73
2021 65 Senate 69 18 D 57 34 88 5 60
2022 66 Senate 62 22 D 38 55 83 64
Lifetime conservative rating:   84%


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.