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Dan Lungren

[Congressional biography]

Born: September 22, 1946 in Long Beach, CA

Education:

  • Notre Dame University, A.B., 1968
  • Attended University of Southern California Law School, 1968-1969
  • Georgetown University, J.D., 1971

Career:

  • Lawyer
  • Served on staffs of Sen. George Murphy and Sen. Bill Brock

Elected Office:

  • CA Attorney General, 1991-1998


Election Results for Dan Lungren


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1976 29 CA R U.S. House District 34 Primary 1 30,619 48.9%
1976 29 CA R U.S. House District 34 General 2 98,147 49.3%
1978 31 CA R U.S. House District 34 Primary 1 42,967 68.4%
1978 31 CA R U.S. House District 34 General 1 90,554 53.7%
1980 33 CA R U.S. House District 34 Primary 1 49,264 100.0%
1980 33 CA R U.S. House District 34 General 1 138,024 71.8%
1982 35 CA R U.S. House District 42 Primary 1 59,811 81.3%
1982 35 CA R U.S. House District 42 General 1 142,845 69.0%
1984 37 CA R U.S. House District 42 Primary 1 69,472 100.0%
1984 37 CA R U.S. House District 42 General 1 177,783 73.0%
1986 39 CA R U.S. House District 42 Primary 1 56,314 100.0%
1986 39 CA R U.S. House District 42 General 1 140,364 72.8%
1990 43 CA R Attorney General Primary 1 1,729,429 100.0%
1990 43 CA R Attorney General General 1 3,407,927 46.8%
1994 47 CA R Attorney General Primary 1 1,782,400 100.0%
1994 47 CA R Attorney General General 1 4,363,760 54.0%
1998 51 CA R Governor Primary 1 2,023,618 93.4%
1998 51 CA R Governor General 2 3,218,030 38.4%
2004 57 CA R U.S. House District 03 Primary 1 35,595 38.9%
2004 57 CA R U.S. House District 03 General 1 177,738 61.9%
2006 59 CA R U.S. House District 03 Primary 1 56,968 100.0%
2006 59 CA R U.S. House District 03 General 1 135,706 59.5%
2008 61 CA R U.S. House District 03 Primary 1 50,532 100.0%
2008 61 CA R U.S. House District 03 General 1 155,424 49.5%
2010 63 CA R U.S. House District 03 Primary 1 71,918 100.0%
2010 63 CA R U.S. House District 03 General 1 131,169 50.1%
2012 65 CA R U.S. House District 07 Open Primary 1 63,586 52.7%
2012 65 CA R U.S. House District 07 General 2 132,050 48.3%


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



Ideology Data for Dan Lungren


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
1979 32 House 97 3 96 2 D 23 77 96 0 97
1980 33 House 89 9 90 9 D 38 60 95 6 83
1981 34 House 89 8 88 8 R 72 18 95 20 92
1982 35 House 93 7 90 5 R 90 8 95 0 100
1983 36 House 91 6 94 3 R 83 15 96 5 95
1984 37 House 90 10 91 6 R 78 19 97 0 96
1985 38 House 89 11 87 7 R 80 18 96 5 89
1986 39 House 80 16 87 9 R 86 12 96 0 95
1987 40 House 86 7 84 7 R 82 14 92 0 100
1988 41 House 66 11 82 5 R 65 17 85 11 86
2005 58 House 97 3 R 89 11 99 0 92
2006 59 House 94 6 R 95 5 99 10 84
2007 60 House 93 4 R 85 11 98 0 96
2008 61 House 92 4 R 82 14 97 6 88
2009 62 House 93 5 D 28 72 99 5 100
2010 63 House 91 7 D 27 71 99 0 96
2011 64 House 93 6 D 31 68 99 0 84
2012 65 House 91 8 D 17 83 99 0 76
Lifetime conservative rating:   92%


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.