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Kirsten Gillibrand

[Congressional biography]

Born: December 9, 1966 in Albany, NY

Education:

  • Dartmouth College, B.A., 1988
  • U.C.L.A., J.D., 1991

Career:

  • Law clerk, 1992
  • Lawyer
  • Special counsel, U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development, 2000
  • Staff, Hillary Clinton campaign for Senate

Elected Office:

  • Appointed to the U.S. Senate on January 26, 2009 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hillary Clinton


Election Results for Kirsten Gillibrand


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

YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
2006 39 NY D U.S. House District 20 General 1 125,168 53.1%
2008 41 NY D U.S. House District 20 General 1 193,651 62.1%
2010 43 NY D U.S. Senate Class 1 Special Primary 1 464,512 76.1%
2010 43 NY D U.S. Senate Class 1 Special 1 2,836,361 62.9%
2012 45 NY D U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 4,511,045 71.5%
2018 51 NY D U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 4,056,931 67.0%


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



Ideology Data for Kirsten Gillibrand


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
2007 40 House 88 10 R 5 94 98 95 8
2008 41 House 77 7 R 19 60 87 88 23
2009 42 Senate 93 1 D 95 3 95 95 0
2010 43 Senate 99 1 D 95 2 99 100 0
2011 44 Senate 97 2 D 92 6 99 85 5
2012 45 Senate 97 3 D 98 2 99 95 0
2013 46 Senate 99 0 D 99 1 99 90 0
2014 47 Senate 98 0 D 94 4 98 89 4
2015 48 Senate 99 0 D 89 11 99 100 0
2016 49 Senate 99 1 D 87 10 99 100 4
2017 50 Senate 98 2 R 9 91 100 100 0
2018 51 Senate 100 0 R 17 82 99 100 9
2019 52 Senate 73 0 R 7 67 74 100 5
2020 53 Senate 100 0 R 17 83 100 100 4
2021 54 Senate 99 0 D 93 7 99 100 3
2022 55 Senate 98 0 D 98 0 99 0
2023 56 Senate 92 1 D 98 3
2024 57 Senate 88 11 D 99
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.