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Steve Scalise

[Congressional biography]

Born: October 6, 1965 in New Orleans, LA

Education:

  • Louisiana State University, B.S. (computer science), 1989

Career:

  • Systems engineer
  • Technology company marketing executive

Elected Office:

  • LA House, 1996-2007
  • LA Senate, 2008


Election Results for Steve Scalise


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

YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
2008 42 LA R U.S. House District 01 Special Primary 1 16,799 48.3%
2008 42 LA R U.S. House District 01 Special Primary Runoff 1 19,338 58.1%
2008 42 LA R U.S. House District 01 Special 1 33,867 75.1%
2008 42 LA R U.S. House District 01 General 1 189,168 65.7%
2010 44 LA R U.S. House District 01 General 1 157,182 78.5%
2012 46 LA R U.S. House District 01 General 1 193,436 66.6%
2014 48 LA R U.S. House District 01 General 1 189,250 77.6%
2016 50 LA R U.S. House District 01 General 1 243,645 74.6%
2018 52 LA R U.S. House District 01 General 1 192,555 71.5%
2020 54 LA R U.S. House District 01 General 1 270,330 72.2%
2022 56 LA R U.S. House District 01 General 1 177,670 72.8%
2024 58 LA R U.S. House District 01 General 1 238,842 66.8%


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



Ideology Data for Steve Scalise


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
2008 42 House 63 1 R 57 14 62 9 100
2009 43 House 95 2 D 23 74 98 0 100
2010 44 House 96 3 D 32 68 98 0 96
2011 45 House 96 3 D 21 78 98 0 92
2012 46 House 98 2 D 14 86 99 0 100
2013 47 House 95 3 D 11 88 99 5 100
2014 48 House 98 0 D 11 85 98 5 96
2015 49 House 97 2 D 15 81 99 0 79
2016 50 House 97 2 D 6 94 98 0 88
2017 51 House 59 0 R 75 0 61 0 93
2018 52 House 81 0 R 81 0 83 0 90
2019 53 House 98 2 R 100 0 99 5 90
2020 54 House 96 2 R 100 0 96 0 86
2021 55 House 96 1 D 6 94 98 0 82
2022 56 House 95 1 D 17 83 96 82
2023 57 House 89 5 D 92 86
2024 58 House 80 3 D 85 83
Lifetime conservative rating:   90%


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.