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Steve Stockman

[Congressional biography]

Born: November 14, 1956 in Bloomfield Hills, MI

Other notes:

  • Convicted on April 12, 2018, of obtaining funds under false pretenses, money laundering, fraud, conspiracy, making false and excessive contributions and filing a false income tax return
  • Sentence commuted by President Donald J. Trump on December 22, 2020


Election Results for Steve Stockman


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1990 33 TX R U.S. House District 09 Primary 2 6,755 40.8%
1990 33 TX R U.S. House District 09 Primary Runoff 2 3,777 39.0%
1992 35 TX R U.S. House District 09 Primary 1 11,871 100.0%
1992 35 TX R U.S. House District 09 General 2 96,270 43.5%
1994 37 TX R U.S. House District 09 Primary 1 8,644 72.6%
1994 37 TX R U.S. House District 09 General 1 81,353 51.9%
1996 39 TX R U.S. House District 09 Open Primary 1 88,171 46.4%
1996 39 TX R U.S. House District 09 General 2 52,870 47.2%
2006 49 TX R U.S. House District 22 Special 3 13,600 11.0%
2012 55 TX R U.S. House District 36 Primary 2 11,858 21.8%
2012 55 TX R U.S. House District 36 Primary Runoff 1 21,472 55.3%
2012 55 TX R U.S. House District 36 General 1 165,405 70.7%
2014 57 TX R U.S. Senate Class 2 Primary 2 251,577 19.1%


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



Ideology Data for Steve Stockman


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
1995 38 House 88 8 91 5 D 20 78 96 5 100
1996 39 House 76 24 77 13 D 35 54 90 22 83
2013 56 House 92 6 D 12 85 98 5 100
2014 57 House 83 10 D 9 79 90 17 86
Lifetime conservative rating:   93%


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.