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Barry Goldwater, Jr.

[Congressional biography]

Born: July 15, 1938 in Los Angeles, CA

Education:

  • Arizona State University, 1962

Career:

  • Stockbroker

Other notes:

  • Son of Barry Goldwater


Election Results for Barry Goldwater, Jr.


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

YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1969 30 CA R U.S. House District 27 Special Open Primary 1 40,075 31.3%
1969 30 CA R U.S. House District 27 Special 1 64,734 56.9%
1970 31 CA R U.S. House District 27 Primary 1 71,457 100.0%
1970 31 CA R U.S. House District 27 General 1 139,326 66.7%
1972 33 CA R U.S. House District 27 Primary 1 61,105 100.0%
1972 33 CA R U.S. House District 27 General 1 119,475 57.4%
1974 35 CA R U.S. House District 20 Primary 1 50,877 91.3%
1974 35 CA R U.S. House District 20 General 1 98,410 61.2%
1976 37 CA R U.S. House District 20 Primary 1 74,030 100.0%
1976 37 CA R U.S. House District 20 General 1 146,158 67.2%
1978 39 CA R U.S. House District 20 Primary 1 83,600 100.0%
1978 39 CA R U.S. House District 20 General 1 129,714 66.4%
1980 41 CA R U.S. House District 20 Primary 1 69,540 100.0%
1980 41 CA R U.S. House District 20 General 1 199,681 78.8%
1982 43 CA R U.S. Senate Class 1 Primary 3 408,308 18.0%


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



Ideology Data for Barry Goldwater, Jr.


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
1969 30 House 74 0 67 7 R 49 29 68 0 92
1970 31 House 82 0 70 9 R 55 9 65 0 82
1971 32 House 74 7 66 12 R 65 14 72 17 100
1972 33 House 73 2 70 6 R 59 22 73 0 88
1973 34 House 83 8 76 12 R 71 19 83 4 100
1974 35 House 74 5 73 12 R 53 23 82 5 84
1975 36 House 82 5 81 5 R 60 27 82 0* 89
1976 37 House 83 6 80 7 R 69 20 86 6 96
1977 38 House 87 4 78 7 D 30 53 82 0 94
1978 39 House 85 4 81 8 D 29 60 84 6 96
1979 40 House 83 3 76 8 D 23 63 79 22 97
1980 41 House 71 13 71 13 D 34 56 80 25 68
1981 42 House 49 7 56 6 R 49 21 58 0 92
1982 43 House 47 3 40 3 R 42 9 39 8 77
Lifetime conservative rating:   91%


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.