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Richard Schulze

[Congressional biography]

Born: August 7, 1929 in Philadelphia, PA

Education:

  • Attended University of Houston, 1948-1949

Military Service:

  • U.S. Army, 1951-1953

Career:

  • Appliance businessman
  • Chester County Register of Wills, 1967-1969

Elected Office:

  • Tredyffrin township commitee, 1960-1967
  • PA House, 1969-1974


Election Results for Richard Schulze


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

YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1974 44 PA R U.S. House District 05 Primary 1 24,263 45.4%
1974 44 PA R U.S. House District 05 General 1 83,526 59.6%
1976 46 PA R U.S. House District 05 General 1 119,682 59.5%
1978 48 PA R U.S. House District 05 Primary 1 54,371 92.8%
1978 48 PA R U.S. House District 05 General 1 110,565 75.1%
1980 50 PA R U.S. House District 05 General 1 148,898 75.1%
1982 52 PA R U.S. House District 05 Primary 1 26,592 83.2%
1982 52 PA R U.S. House District 05 General 1 90,648 67.2%
1984 54 PA R U.S. House District 05 Primary 1 33,382 88.6%
1984 54 PA R U.S. House District 05 General 1 141,965 72.6%
1986 56 PA R U.S. House District 05 General 1 87,593 65.7%
1988 58 PA R U.S. House District 05 General 1 153,453 78.2%
1990 60 PA R U.S. House District 05 General 1 75,097 57.1%


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



Ideology Data for Richard Schulze


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
1975 45 House 82 16 82 15 R 64 34 97 16 86
1976 46 House 83 15 84 14 R 63 35 96 5 91
1977 47 House 87 10 84 13 D 49 47 97 20 100
1978 48 House 82 9 82 8 D 24 64 91 10 91
1979 49 House 87 6 86 8 D 29 63 90 5 92
1980 50 House 88 6 85 7 D 34 56 91 0 89
1981 51 House 93 4 87 6 R 70 14 88 10 100
1982 52 House 73 11 63 15 R 57 31 84 16 63
1983 53 House 83 8 75 11 R 72 23 87 11 76
1984 54 House 85 10 68 21 R 62 27 88 5 65
1985 55 House 82 15 68 23 R 64 33 91 11 68
1986 56 House 60 14 60 29 R 58 37 88 18 60
1987 57 House 84 16 62 26 R 65 28 90 8 77
1988 58 House 84 13 63 30 R 55 40 94 32 76
1989 59 House 85 15 64 33 R 69 30 96 21 71
1990 60 House 74 13 67 23 R 61 37 90 19 71
1991 61 House 92 3 70 19 R 73 22 91 10 89
1992 62 House 67 4 66 16 R 67 18 84 11 91
Lifetime conservative rating:   82%


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.