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Frank Lautenberg

[Congressional biography]

Born: January 23, 1924 in Paterson, NJ
Died: June 6, 2013 in New York City, NY

Education:

  • Columbia University, B.S., 1949

Military Service:

  • U.S. Army Signal Corps, 1942-1946

Career:

  • Co-founder of data processing company, 1952-1982
  • NY-NJ Port Authority commission, 1978-1982


Election Results for Frank Lautenberg


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1982 58 NJ D U.S. Senate Class 1 Primary 1 104,666 26.0%
1982 58 NJ D U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 1,117,549 50.9%
1988 64 NJ D U.S. Senate Class 1 Primary 1 362,072 79.5%
1988 64 NJ D U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 1,599,905 53.6%
1994 70 NJ D U.S. Senate Class 1 Primary 1 151,416 81.0%
1994 70 NJ D U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 1,033,487 50.3%
2002 78 NJ D U.S. Senate Class 2 General 1 1,138,193 51.0%
2008 84 NJ D U.S. Senate Class 2 Primary 1 203,012 58.9%
2008 84 NJ D U.S. Senate Class 2 General 1 1,951,218 56.0%


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



Ideology Data for Frank Lautenberg


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
1983 59 Senate 14 80 77 20 R 40 56 95 90 4
1984 60 Senate 6 91 85 12 R 35 61 94 100 0
1985 61 Senate 7 92 85 14 R 28 69 98 90 5
1986 62 Senate 12 86 79 15 R 30 69 95 94 14
1987 63 Senate 19 72 87 6 R 33 63 94 94 8
1988 64 Senate 0 92 92 4 R 42 53 95 95 0
1989 65 Senate 24 76 87 12 R 49 50 98 80 8
1990 66 Senate 8 92 88 12 R 25 75 100 100 4
1991 67 Senate 10 90 89 11 R 31 69 100 95 5
1992 68 Senate 5 95 92 8 R 22 78 100 100 4
1993 69 Senate 20 80 86 14 D 22 78 99 95 24
1994 70 Senate 19 78 84 16 D 81 18 99 95 4
1995 71 Senate 7 93 94 6 D 87 13 99 100 0
1996 72 Senate 11 87 91 7 D 90 10 98 95 0
1997 73 Senate 16 84 94 6 D 83 13 99 95 0
1998 74 Senate 25 75 97 3 D 90 10 99 95 4
1999 75 Senate 96 4 93 3 D 93 7 95 100 0
2000 76 Senate 98 2 97 2 D 98 2 98 95 4
2003 79 Senate 97 3 R 41 53 98 95 15
2004 80 Senate 94 4 R 59 37 96 100 0
2005 81 Senate 97 2 R 24 73 98 100 0
2006 82 Senate 96 3 R 43 50 97 100 0
2007 83 Senate 97 2 R 35 64 99 90 0
2008 84 Senate 95 1 R 33 67 95 100 4
2009 85 Senate 99 1 D 95 3 99 95 0
2010 86 Senate 93 1 D 95 3 95 95 0
2011 87 Senate 97 2 D 92 6 99 90 10
2012 88 Senate 83 3 D 81 4 86 100 0
2013 89 Senate 11 0 D 11 0 11 100 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.