"Vote concurrence is measured by the number of times a majority of members of Congress vote with the president's position on roll call votes. Member concurrence is the percentage of members who agree with the president's position on a roll call vote. Unlike the usual scholarly focus on success or support, the concurrence measures acknowledge that it is impossible to judge who influenced whom." -- Ragsdale, Vital Statistics on the Presidency
Year | Congress | Total Concurrence (H&S) |
House of Representatives | Senate | |||||
Majority | rate % | # votes | Majority | rate % | # votes | ||||
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
1953 |
83rd | 89.2 | REP | 91.2 | 34 | REP | 87.8 | 49 |
1954 | 82.8 | 78.9 | 38 | 77.9 | 77 | ||||
1955 | 84th | 75.3 | DEM | 63.4 | 41 | DEM | 84.6 | 52 | |
1956 | 69.2 | 73.5 | 34 | 67.7 | 65 | ||||
1957 | 85th | 68.4 | DEM | 58.3 | 60 | DEM | 78.9 | 57 | |
1958 | 75.7 | 74.0 | 50 | 76.5 | 98 | ||||
1959 | 86th | 52.9 | DEM | 55.6 | 54 | DEM | 50.4 | 121 | |
1960 | 65.1 | 65.1 | 43 | 65.1 | 86 | ||||
Average | 72.3% | 70.0% | 73.6% | ||||||
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | 87th | 81.4 | DEM | 83.1 |
65 |
DEM | 80.6 | 124 |
1962 | 85.4 | 85.0 | 60 | 85.6 | 125 | ||||
1963 | 88th | 87.1 | DEM | 83.1 | 71 | DEM | 89.6 | 115 | |
Average | 84.6% | 83.7% | 85.3% | ||||||
Lyndon B. Johnson |
1964 |
88th | 87.9 | DEM | 88.5 | 52 | DEM | 87.6 | 97 |
1965 | 89th | 93.1 | DEM | 93.8 | 112 | DEM | 92.6 | 162 | |
1966 | 78.9 | 91.3 | 103 | 68.8 | 125 | ||||
1967 | 90th | 78.8 | DEM | 75.6 | 127 | DEM | 81.2 | 165 | |
1968 | 74.5 | 83.5 | 103 | 68.9 | 164 | ||||
Average | 82.6% | 86.5% | 78.8% | ||||||
Richard Nixon | 1969 | 91st | 73.9 | DEM | 72.3 | 47 | DEM | 76.4 | 72 |
1970 | 76.9 | 84.6 | 65 | 71.4 | 91 | ||||
1971 | 92nd | 74.8 | DEM | 82.5 | 57 | DEM | 69.5 | 82 | |
1972 | 66.3 | 81.1 | 37 | 54.3 | 46 | ||||
1973 | 93rd | 50.6 | DEM | 48.0 | 125 | DEM | 52.4 | 185 | |
1974 | 59.6 | 67.9 | 53 | 54.2 | 83 | ||||
Average | 67.0% | 72.7% | 63.0% | ||||||
Gerald R. Ford |
1974 |
93rd |
58.2 |
DEM | 59.3 | 54 | DEM | 57.4 | 68 |
1975 | 94th | 61.0 | DEM | 50.6 | 89 | DEM | 71.0 | 93 | |
1976 | 53.8 | 43.1 | 51 | 64.2 | 53 | ||||
Average | 57.7% | 51.0% | 64.2% | ||||||
Jimmy Carter | 1977 | 95th | 75.4 | DEM | 74.7 | 79 | DEM | 76.1 | 88 |
1978 | 78.3 | 69.6 | 112 | 84.8 | 151 | ||||
1979 | 96th | 76.8 | DEM | 71.7 | 145 | DEM | 81.4 | 161 | |
1980 | 75.1 | 76.9 | 117 | 73.3 | 116 | ||||
Average | 76.4% | 73.2% | 78.9% | ||||||
Ronald Reagan |
1981 |
97th | 82.4 | DEM | 72.4 | 76 | REP | 88.3 | 128 |
1982 | 72.4 | 55.8 | 77 | 83.2 | 119 | ||||
1983 | 98th | 67.1 | DEM | 47.6 | 82 | REP | 85.9 | 85 | |
1984 | 65.8 | 52.2 | 113 | 85.7 | 77 | ||||
1985 | 99th | 59.9 | DEM | 45.0 | 80 | REP | 71.6 | 102 | |
1986 | 56.1 | 34.1 | 88 | 81.2 | 80 | ||||
1987 | 100th | 43.5 | DEM | 33.3 | 99 | DEM | 56.4 | 78 | |
1988 | 47.4 | 32.7 | 104 | 64.8 | 88 | ||||
Average | 61.8% | 46.6% | 77.1% | ||||||
George Bush | 1989 | 101st | 62.6 | DEM | 50.0 | 86 | DEM | 73.3 | 101 |
1990 | 46.8 | 32.4 | 108 | 63.4 | 93 | ||||
1991 | 102nd | 54.2 | DEM | 43.0 | 111 | DEM | 69.0 | 81 | |
1992 | 43.0 | 37.0 | 105 | 53.0 | 60 | ||||
Average | 51.7% | 40.6% | 64.7% | ||||||
William J. Clinton |
1993 |
103rd | 86.4 | DEM | 87.2 | 102 | DEM | 85.4 | 89 |
1994 | 86.4 | 87.2 | 78 | 85.5 | 62 | ||||
1995 | 104th | 36.2 | REP | 26.3 | 133 | REP | 49.0 | 102 | |
1996 | 55.1 | 53.2 | 79 | 57.6 | 59 | ||||
1997 | 105th | 53.6 | REP | 38.7 | 75 | REP | 71.4 | 63 | |
1998 | 50.6 | 36.6 | 82 | 67.0 | 72 | ||||
1999 | 106th | 37.8 | REP | 35.4 | 82 | REP | 42.2 | 45 | |
2000 | 55.0 | 49.3 | 69 | 65.0 | 40 | ||||
Average | 57.6% | 51.7% | 65.4% | ||||||
George W. Bush | 2001 | 107th | 86.7 | REP | 83.7 | 43 | DEM* | 88.3 | 77 |
2002 | 87.8 | 82.5 | 40 | 91.4 | 58 | ||||
2003 | 108th | 78.7 | REP | 87.3 | 48 | REP | 74.8 | 89 | |
2004 | 72.6 |
70.6 |
24 | 74.0 | 37 | ||||
2005 | 109th | 78.0 | REP | 78.3 | 46 | REP | 77.8 | 45 | |
2006 | 80.9 | 85.0 | 40 | 78.6 | 70 | ||||
2007 | 110th | 38.3 | DEM | 15.4 | 117 | DEM | 66.0 | 97 | |
2008 | 26.3 | 33.8 | 80 | 68.5 | 54 | ||||
Average | 68.7% | 67.1% | 77.4% | ||||||
Barack Obama |
2009 |
111th | 96.7 | DEM | 94.4 | 72 | DEM | 98.8 | 79 |
2010 | 85.8 | 88.1 | 42 | 84.4 | 64 | ||||
2011 | 112th | 57.1 | REP | 31.6 | 95 | DEM | 84.3 | 89 | |
2012 | 53.6 | 19.7 | 61 | 79.7 | 79 | ||||
2013 | 113th | 56.7 | REP | 20.9 | 86 | DEM | 85.2 | 108 | |
Average | 70.0% | 50.9% | 86.5% |