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John McFall

[Congressional biography]

Born: February 20, 1918 in Buffalo, NY
Died: March 7, 2006 in Alexandria, VA

Military Service:

  • Security Intelligence Corps, 1942-1946

Elected Office:

  • Mayor of Manteca (CA), 1949-1950
  • CA Assembly, 1951-1956

Other notes:

  • Reprimanded by the U.S. House of Representatives on October 13, 1978, for failure to report campaign contributions from a Korean lobbyist


Election Results for John McFall


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1956 38 CA R U.S. House District 11 Primary 2 7,247 18.6%
1956 38 CA D U.S. House District 11 Primary 1 39,078 72.0%
1956 38 CA D U.S. House District 11 General 1 70,630 53.1%
1958 40 CA R U.S. House District 11 Primary 2 18,008 45.5%
1958 40 CA D U.S. House District 11 Primary 1 55,459 92.5%
1958 40 CA D U.S. House District 11 General 1 86,924 69.3%
1960 42 CA D U.S. House District 11 Primary 1 55,512 100.0%
1960 42 CA R (write-in) U.S. House District 11 Primary 2 314 0.9%
1960 42 CA D U.S. House District 11 General 1 97,368 65.4%
1962 44 CA D U.S. House District 15 Primary 1 52,967 100.0%
1962 44 CA D U.S. House District 15 General 1 97,322 70.0%
1964 46 CA D U.S. House District 15 Primary 1 60,306 100.0%
1964 46 CA R (write-in) U.S. House District 15 Primary 2 327 12.0%
1964 46 CA D U.S. House District 15 General 1 109,560 70.9%
1966 48 CA D U.S. House District 15 Primary 1 54,759 100.0%
1966 48 CA D U.S. House District 15 General 1 81,733 57.0%
1968 50 CA D U.S. House District 15 General 1 86,386 53.8%
1970 52 CA D U.S. House District 15 Primary 1 50,670 85.8%
1970 52 CA D U.S. House District 15 General 1 98,442 63.1%
1972 54 CA D U.S. House District 15 Primary 1 65,913 100.0%
1972 54 CA R (write-in) U.S. House District 15 Primary 1 2,351 44.9%
1972 54 CA D,R U.S. House District 15 General 1 146,358 100.0%
1974 56 CA D U.S. House District 14 Primary 1 54,278 80.5%
1974 56 CA D U.S. House District 14 General 1 102,180 70.9%
1976 58 CA D U.S. House District 14 Primary 1 52,999 82.7%
1976 58 CA D U.S. House District 14 General 1 123,285 72.5%
1978 60 CA D U.S. House District 14 Primary 1 58,480 69.5%
1978 60 CA D U.S. House District 14 General 2 76,602 42.6%


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



Ideology Data for John McFall


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
1957 39 House 88 8 R 68 30 98 89
1958 40 House 89 11 R 74 24 99 100
1959 41 House 9 91 94 6 R 44 56 99 100
1960 42 House 5 95 88 12 R 58 42 100 100
1961 43 House 17 83 97 3 D 92 8 100 100 7
1962 44 House 0 100 100 0 D 98 2 98 100 0
1963 45 House 20 80 95 3 D 96 1 96 83 0
1964 46 House 0 92 97 2 D 94 4 98 100 0
1965 47 House 8 92 97 1 D 96 4 99 84 12
1966 48 House 3 92 89 0 D 84 6 90 94 0
1967 49 House 7 89 92 0 D 87 6 93 73 7
1968 50 House 16 78 90 2 D 88 8 94 83 4
1969 51 House 31 67 85 11 R 66 30 95 53 27
1970 52 House 36 55 74 18 R 65 31 89 44 28
1971 53 House 49 40 64 26 R 72 19 94 47 33
1972 54 House 37 61 79 20 R 54 41 98 47 30
1973 55 House 34 63 81 15 R 42 50 95 48 30
1974 56 House 32 64 80 16 R 57 43 97 48 19
1975 57 House 33 67 86 13 R 47 53 98 68* 14
1976 58 House 28 70 81 13 R 29 67 96 65 15
1977 59 House 23 77 89 9 D 73 25 97 65 11
1978 60 House 24 74 82 13 D 70 21 93 50 30
Lifetime conservative rating:   15%


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.