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Jake Garn

[Congressional biography]

Born: October 12, 1932 in Richfield, UT

Education:

  • University of Utah, B.S., 1955

Military Service:

  • U.S. Navy, 1956-1960
  • UT Air Notional Guard, 1963-1979

Career:

  • Insurance executive, 1961-1968

Elected Office:

  • Salt Lake City commissioner, 1968-1972
  • Mayor of Salt Lake City, 1971-1974


Election Results for Jake Garn


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

YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1974 41 UT R U.S. Senate Class 3 General 1 210,299 50.0%
1980 47 UT R U.S. Senate Class 3 General 1 437,675 73.6%
1986 53 UT R U.S. Senate Class 3 General 1 314,608 72.3%


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



Ideology Data for Jake Garn


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
1975 42 Senate 87 2 87 4 R 74 16 93 12 85
1976 43 Senate 81 3 84 3 R 77 13 88 0 90
1977 44 Senate 90 3 88 4 D 44 50 90 11 94
1978 45 Senate 88 7 90 4 D 15 82 92 5 100
1979 46 Senate 89 4 93 3 D 26 69 96 11 91
1980 47 Senate 88 5 82 9 D 32 66 92 17 95
1981 48 Senate 89 6 92 4 R 88 9 96 0 93
1982 49 Senate 93 6 93 7 R 83 16 99 5 79
1983 50 Senate 100 0 91 6 R 72 28 98 5 84
1984 51 Senate 98 2 95 5 R 83 14 99 5 100
1985 52 Senate 72 13 83 7 R 73 11 90 0 100
1986 53 Senate 75 3 73 4 R 80 5 72 0 93
1987 54 Senate 91 3 89 7 R 69 21 91 5 96
1988 55 Senate 73 0 88 3 R 77 14 90 0 96
1989 56 Senate 95 3 97 2 R 86 11 96 5 96
1990 57 Senate 86 3 88 6 R 73 24 94 6 95
1991 58 Senate 70 10 88 5 R 85 7 92 11 84
1992 59 Senate 87 5 85 3 R 83 10 92 6 100
Lifetime conservative rating:   93%


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.