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Edwin Forsythe

[Congressional biography]

Born: January 17, 1916 in Westtown, PA
Died: March 29, 1984 in Moorestown, NJ

Career:

  • Moorestown Township committee, 1953-1962
  • Moorestown planning board, 1962-1963

Elected Office:

  • Mayor of Moorestown, 1957-1962
  • NJ Senate, 1964-1970


Election Results for Edwin Forsythe


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1970 54 NJ R U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 18,953 52.2%
1970 54 NJ R U.S. House District 06 Special Primary 1 19,776 53.1%
1970 54 NJ R U.S. House District 06 General 1 88,051 53.6%
1970 54 NJ R U.S. House District 06 Special 1 89,565 54.8%
1972 56 NJ R U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 21,207 100.0%
1972 56 NJ R U.S. House District 06 General 1 123,610 62.8%
1974 58 NJ R U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 10,904 89.8%
1974 58 NJ R U.S. House District 06 General 1 81,190 52.5%
1976 60 NJ R U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 21,462 100.0%
1976 60 NJ R U.S. House District 06 General 1 125,920 58.8%
1978 62 NJ R U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 17,106 84.7%
1978 62 NJ R U.S. House District 06 General 1 89,446 60.4%
1980 64 NJ R U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 18,768 89.8%
1980 64 NJ R U.S. House District 06 General 1 125,792 56.3%
1982 66 NJ R U.S. House District 13 Primary 1 28,529 87.7%
1982 66 NJ R U.S. House District 13 General 1 100,061 59.5%


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



Ideology Data for Edwin Forsythe


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
1970 54 House 24 11 R 18 2 26 0 50
1971 55 House 51 44 61 36 R 72 28 97 47 28
1972 56 House 60 29 58 33 R 68 16 92 53 43
1973 57 House 61 38 63 36 R 62 35 97 44 36
1974 58 House 41 50 51 42 R 62 28 94 61* 53
1975 59 House 59 27 68 22 R 69 24 90 47* 61
1976 60 House 59 29 61 27 R 67 25 91 26 53
1977 61 House 48 25 55 21 D 42 35 72 43 58
1978 62 House 63 32 73 23 D 42 50 94 40 79
1979 63 House 38 19 42 21 D 22 28 56 29 69
1980 64 House 68 29 70 29 D 45 52 98 50 68
1981 65 House 55 33 60 26 R 62 24 85 47 75
1982 66 House 52 30 54 21 R 35 36 74 47 47
1983 67 House 44 35 59 22 R 57 27 83 32 61
1984 68 House 1 0 R 1 0 1 0 0
Lifetime conservative rating:   57%


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.