Election results and ideology ratings for Mickey Leland -- RightDataUSA.com

[Congressional biography]

Born: November 27, 1944 in Lubbock, TX
Died: August 7, 1989 near Gambela, Ethiopia (plane crash)

Election Results for Mickey Leland

Year	Age	State	Party	Office	District	Stage	Pos	Votes	%
1978	33	TX	D	U.S. House	District 18	Primary	1	17,946	47.7%
1978	33	TX	D	U.S. House	District 18	Primary Runoff	1	15,587	56.9%
1978	33	TX	D	U.S. House	District 18	General	1	36,783	96.8%

1980	35	TX	D	U.S. House	District 18	General	1	71,985	79.9%

1982	37	TX	D	U.S. House	District 18	Primary	1	22,032	84.3%
1982	37	TX	D	U.S. House	District 18	General	1	68,014	82.6%

1984	39	TX	D	U.S. House	District 18	Primary	1	33,072	90.6%
1984	39	TX	D	U.S. House	District 18	General	1	109,626	78.8%

1986	41	TX	D	U.S. House	District 18	Primary	1	17,895	91.3%
1986	41	TX	D	U.S. House	District 18	General	1	63,335	90.2%

1988	43	TX	D	U.S. House	District 18	Primary	1	38,963	82.4%
1988	43	TX	D	U.S. House	District 18	General	1	94,408	92.9%

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

Ideology Data for Mickey Leland

Year	Age	Body	Conservative Coalition		Party Unity		Presidential Support			Vote %	Liberal	Conserv.
Year	Age	Body					P			Vote %	Liberal	Conserv.
1979	34	House	10	88	91	4	D	81	16	93	89	3
1980	35	House	4	84	78	6	D	62	21	81	94	11
1981	36	House	8	79	80	5	R	30	53	80	100	0
1982	37	House	8	86	84	5	R	26	68	86	90	0
1983	38	House	4	84	86	3	R	10	83	88	95	0
1984	39	House	2	86	74	4	R	19	65	78	100	5
1985	40	House	7	89	90	2	R	20	80	94	100	0
1986	41	House	2	90	88	2	R	9	83	89	100	0
1987	42	House	5	93	86	1	R	13	80	86	100	0
1988	43	House	5	79	77	2	R	15	71	83	100	0
1989	44	House	4	75	83	2	R	27	62	86	100	0
Lifetime conservative rating:												2%

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.