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Phil Gingrey

[Congressional biography]

Born: July 10, 1942 in Augusta, GA

Education:

  • Georgia Tech University, B.S., 1965
  • Medical College of Georgia, M.D., 1969

Career:

  • Physician

Elected Office:

  • Marietta board of education, 1993-1997
  • GA Senate, 1999-2002


Election Results for Phil Gingrey


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
2002 59 GA R U.S. House District 11 Primary 1 12,377 40.1%
2002 59 GA R U.S. House District 11 Primary Runoff 1 9,930 63.6%
2002 59 GA R U.S. House District 11 General 1 69,261 51.5%
2004 61 GA R U.S. House District 11 Primary 1 32,408 100.0%
2004 61 GA R U.S. House District 11 General 1 120,696 57.4%
2006 63 GA R U.S. House District 11 Primary 1 30,291 100.0%
2006 63 GA R U.S. House District 11 General 1 118,524 71.1%
2008 65 GA R U.S. House District 11 Primary 1 29,155 100.0%
2008 65 GA R U.S. House District 11 General 1 204,082 68.2%
2010 67 GA R U.S. House District 11 Primary 1 58,447 100.0%
2010 67 GA R U.S. House District 11 General 1 163,515 100.0%
2012 69 GA R U.S. House District 11 Primary 1 75,697 80.9%
2012 69 GA R U.S. House District 11 General 1 196,968 68.6%
2014 71 GA R U.S. Senate Class 2 Primary 4 60,735 10.0%


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



Ideology Data for Phil Gingrey


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
2003 60 House 98 1 R 95 5 99 5 88
2004 61 House 98 2 R 85 15 99 5 96
2005 62 House 95 3 R 83 15 97 0 100
2006 63 House 95 4 R 89 11 97 5 92
2007 64 House 96 2 R 91 7 98 0 100
2008 65 House 96 1 R 70 28 96 11 96
2009 66 House 93 5 D 20 77 97 5 96
2010 67 House 95 1 D 24 71 94 6 100
2011 68 House 91 4 D 20 77 94 0 100
2012 69 House 96 1 D 10 88 96 0 96
2013 70 House 91 5 D 11 84 92 0 88
2014 71 House 89 1 D 9 86 87 5 91
Lifetime conservative rating:   95%


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.