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Robert Garcia

[Congressional biography]

Born: January 9, 1933 in New York City, NY
Died: January 25, 2017 in San Juan, PR

Military Service:

  • U.S. Army, 1950-1953

Career:

  • Computer engineer, 1957-1965

Elected Office:

  • NY Assembly, 1965-1966
  • NY Senate, 1966-1978


Election Results for Robert Garcia


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

YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1978 45 NY R U.S. House District 21 Special 1 7,959 55.4%
1978 45 NY D,R U.S. House District 21 General 1 23,950 98.0%
1980 47 NY D,R U.S. House District 21 General 1 32,173 98.2%
1982 49 NY D U.S. House District 18 Primary 1 22,106 67.2%
1982 49 NY D,R U.S. House District 18 General 1 57,009 98.9%
1984 51 NY D U.S. House District 18 General 1 85,960 89.2%
1986 53 NY D U.S. House District 18 General 1 43,343 93.5%
1988 55 NY D U.S. House District 18 Primary 1 16,868 60.6%
1988 55 NY D U.S. House District 18 General 1 75,459 91.1%


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



Ideology Data for Robert Garcia


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
1978 45 House 5 77 78 6 D 66 15 79 89 10
1979 46 House 2 85 79 3 D 66 14 76 100 6
1980 47 House 1 74 76 4 D 57 17 76 100 12
1981 48 House 3 76 81 3 R 25 50 76 94 8
1982 49 House 10 82 77 4 R 26 58 77 95 11
1983 50 House 9 87 83 1 R 16 68 84 89 5
1984 51 House 7 86 81 4 R 30 62 86 100 0
1985 52 House 4 87 82 1 R 21 75 84 95 0
1986 53 House 2 84 83 2 R 13 81 85 100 0
1987 54 House 9 84 79 2 R 11 76 83 100 0
1988 55 House 5 79 77 2 R 13 69 84 100 4
1989 56 House 2 49 47 1 R 15 36 49 100 0
Lifetime conservative rating:   4%


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.