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Beverly Byron

[Congressional biography]

Born: July 27, 1932 in Baltimore, MD

Education:

  • Attended Hood College, 1963-1964

Career:

  • Assistant to Rep. Goodloe Byron

Other notes:

  • Wife of Goodloe Byron


Election Results for Beverly Byron


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

YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1978 45 MD D U.S. House District 06 General 1 126,196 89.7%
1980 47 MD D U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 38,842 71.0%
1980 47 MD D U.S. House District 06 General 1 146,101 69.9%
1982 49 MD D U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 35,110 73.9%
1982 49 MD D U.S. House District 06 General 1 102,596 74.4%
1984 51 MD D U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 26,772 73.6%
1984 51 MD D U.S. House District 06 General 1 123,383 65.1%
1986 53 MD D U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 42,847 83.9%
1986 53 MD D U.S. House District 06 General 1 102,975 72.2%
1988 55 MD D U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 38,123 80.7%
1988 55 MD D U.S. House District 06 General 1 166,753 75.4%
1990 57 MD D U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 31,384 64.2%
1990 57 MD D U.S. House District 06 General 1 106,502 65.3%
1992 59 MD D U.S. House District 06 Primary 2 23,434 43.9%


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



Ideology Data for Beverly Byron


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 46 House 85 10 40 58 D 40 55 93 17 71
1980 47 House 83 13 41 53 D 55 41 91 22 63
1981 48 House 93 4 38 56 R 62 33 89 16 67
1982 49 House 79 15 44 49 R 56 40 93 30 57
1983 50 House 87 10 43 51 R 57 40 90 26 77
1984 51 House 81 17 47 45 R 50 48 93 20 68
1985 52 House 80 13 63 30 R 52 43 92 10 61
1986 53 House 78 18 55 37 R 50 50 94 21 71
1987 54 House 86 12 58 34 R 44 54 93 50 35
1988 55 House 100 0 61 34 R 49 46 96 33 68
1989 56 House 98 2 54 43 R 71 29 98 15 64
1990 57 House 87 13 59 35 R 48 49 94 33 48
1991 58 House 89 8 63 33 R 51 49 97 25 45
1992 59 House 73 15 56 31 R 48 34 90 35 57
Lifetime conservative rating:   61%


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.