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Gerry Studds

[Congressional biography]

Born: May 12, 1937 in Mineola, NY
Died: October 14, 2006 in Boston, MA

Other notes:

  • Censured by the U.S. House of Representatives on July 20, 1983, for personal misconduct with a House page


Election Results for Gerry Studds


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1970 33 MA D U.S. House District 12 Primary 1 22,219 52.1%
1970 33 MA D U.S. House District 12 General 2 98,910 49.6%
1972 35 MA D U.S. House District 12 Primary 1 25,107 99.8%
1972 35 MA D U.S. House District 12 General 1 117,710 50.2%
1974 37 MA D U.S. House District 12 Primary 1 49,949 100.0%
1974 37 MA D U.S. House District 12 General 1 138,779 74.8%
1976 39 MA D U.S. House District 12 Primary 1 49,919 84.5%
1976 39 MA D U.S. House District 12 General 1 222,418 100.0%
1978 41 MA D U.S. House District 12 Primary 1 56,826 100.0%
1978 41 MA D U.S. House District 12 General 1 176,704 99.9%
1980 43 MA D U.S. House District 12 Primary 1 50,248 100.0%
1980 43 MA D U.S. House District 12 General 1 195,791 73.2%
1982 45 MA D U.S. House District 10 Primary 1 72,567 99.9%
1982 45 MA D U.S. House District 10 General 1 138,418 68.7%
1984 47 MA D U.S. House District 10 Primary 1 48,377 64.1%
1984 47 MA D U.S. House District 10 General 1 143,062 55.7%
1986 49 MA D U.S. House District 10 Primary 1 34,339 80.7%
1986 49 MA D U.S. House District 10 General 1 121,578 65.1%
1988 51 MA D U.S. House District 10 Primary 1 31,200 99.9%
1988 51 MA D U.S. House District 10 General 1 187,178 66.7%
1990 53 MA D U.S. House District 10 Primary 1 71,103 99.9%
1990 53 MA D U.S. House District 10 General 1 137,805 53.4%
1992 55 MA D U.S. House District 10 Primary 1 57,640 60.5%
1992 55 MA D U.S. House District 10 General 1 189,342 60.8%
1994 57 MA D U.S. House District 10 Primary 1 37,393 76.5%
1994 57 MA D U.S. House District 10 General 1 172,753 68.8%


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



Ideology Data for Gerry Studds


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
1973 36 House 8 92 87 13 R 30 70 99 92 8
1974 37 House 10 90 87 13 R 43 55 99 100 5
1975 38 House 8 92 88 11 R 33 67 99 100 6
1976 39 House 10 87 88 10 R 22 76 97 100 0
1977 40 House 10 90 89 10 D 78 22 99 100 3
1978 41 House 7 93 88 12 D 87 13 99 95 4
1979 42 House 3 97 92 8 D 85 14 99 100 5
1980 43 House 7 93 93 7 D 78 21 99 100 11
1981 44 House 7 93 91 9 R 33 67 99 100 8
1982 45 House 10 90 92 8 R 32 66 99 95 14
1983 46 House 6 88 91 5 R 18 77 95 89 0
1984 47 House 5 83 85 5 R 23 66 88 95 0
1985 48 House 5 95 93 3 R 21 78 96 100 11
1986 49 House 6 88 93 3 R 16 84 96 95 0
1987 50 House 2 95 93 2 R 12 86 95 100 0
1988 51 House 0 97 94 4 R 16 77 97 100 0
1989 52 House 2 98 97 2 R 27 73 99 100 0
1990 53 House 4 96 95 4 R 18 82 99 100 4
1991 54 House 5 92 96 2 R 20 76 97 100 0
1992 55 House 8 92 93 4 R 13 83 97 100 0
1993 56 House 9 91 96 1 D 79 20 98 95 5
1994 57 House 0 97 97 1 D 82 18 97 95 0
1995 58 House 5 90 94 1 D 92 5 95 95 4
1996 59 House 0 86 85 3 D 77 11 87 95 0
Lifetime conservative rating:   3%


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.