House and Senate Concurrence with Presidents

"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

President	Year	Congress	Total Concurrence (H&S)	House of Representatives			Senate
President	Year	Congress	Total Concurrence (H&S)	Majority	rate %	# votes	Majority	rate %	# votes

Dwight D. Eisenhower	1953	83^rd	89.2	REP	91.2	34	REP	87.8	49
	1954	83^rd	82.8	REP	78.9	38	REP	77.9	77
	1955	84^th	75.3	DEM	63.4	41	DEM	84.6	52
	1956	84^th	69.2	DEM	73.5	34	DEM	67.7	65
	1957	85^th	68.4	DEM	58.3	60	DEM	78.9	57
	1958	85^th	75.7	DEM	74.0	50	DEM	76.5	98
	1959	86^th	52.9	DEM	55.6	54	DEM	50.4	121
	1960	86^th	65.1	DEM	65.1	43	DEM	65.1	86
Average			72.3%		70.0%			73.6%

John F. Kennedy	1961	87^th	81.4	DEM	83.1	65	DEM	80.6	124
	1962	87^th	85.4	DEM	85.0	60	DEM	85.6	125
	1963	88^th	87.1	DEM	83.1	71	DEM	89.6	115
Average			84.6%		83.7%			85.3%

Lyndon B. Johnson	1964	88^th	87.9	DEM	88.5	52	DEM	87.6	97
	1965	89^th	93.1	DEM	93.8	112	DEM	92.6	162
	1966	89^th	78.9	DEM	91.3	103	DEM	68.8	125
	1967	90^th	78.8	DEM	75.6	127	DEM	81.2	165
	1968	90^th	74.5	DEM	83.5	103	DEM	68.9	164
Average			82.6%		86.5%			78.8%

Richard Nixon	1969	91^st	73.9	DEM	72.3	47	DEM	76.4	72
	1970	91^st	76.9	DEM	84.6	65	DEM	71.4	91
	1971	92^nd	74.8	DEM	82.5	57	DEM	69.5	82
	1972	92^nd	66.3	DEM	81.1	37	DEM	54.3	46
	1973	93^rd	50.6	DEM	48.0	125	DEM	52.4	185
	1974	93^rd	59.6	DEM	67.9	53	DEM	54.2	83
Average			67.0%		72.7%			63.0%

Gerald R. Ford	1974	93^rd	58.2	DEM	59.3	54	DEM	57.4	68
	1975	94^th	61.0	DEM	50.6	89	DEM	71.0	93
	1976	94^th	53.8	DEM	43.1	51	DEM	64.2	53
Average			57.7%		51.0%			64.2%

Jimmy Carter	1977	95^th	75.4	DEM	74.7	79	DEM	76.1	88
	1978	95^th	78.3	DEM	69.6	112	DEM	84.8	151
	1979	96^th	76.8	DEM	71.7	145	DEM	81.4	161
	1980	96^th	75.1	DEM	76.9	117	DEM	73.3	116
Average			76.4%		73.2%			78.9%

Ronald Reagan	1981	97^th	82.4	DEM	72.4	76	REP	88.3	128
	1982	97^th	72.4	DEM	55.8	77	REP	83.2	119
	1983	98^th	67.1	DEM	47.6	82	REP	85.9	85
	1984	98^th	65.8	DEM	52.2	113	REP	85.7	77
	1985	99^th	59.9	DEM	45.0	80	REP	71.6	102
	1986	99^th	56.1	DEM	34.1	88	REP	81.2	80
	1987	100^th	43.5	DEM	33.3	99	DEM	56.4	78
	1988	100^th	47.4	DEM	32.7	104	DEM	64.8	88
Average			61.8%		46.6%			77.1%

George Bush	1989	101^st	62.6	DEM	50.0	86	DEM	73.3	101
	1990	101^st	46.8	DEM	32.4	108	DEM	63.4	93
	1991	102^nd	54.2	DEM	43.0	111	DEM	69.0	81
	1992	102^nd	43.0	DEM	37.0	105	DEM	53.0	60
Average			51.7%		40.6%			64.7%

William J. Clinton	1993	103^rd	86.4	DEM	87.2	102	DEM	85.4	89
	1994	103^rd	86.4	DEM	87.2	78	DEM	85.5	62
	1995	104^th	36.2	REP	26.3	133	REP	49.0	102
	1996	104^th	55.1	REP	53.2	79	REP	57.6	59
	1997	105^th	53.6	REP	38.7	75	REP	71.4	63
	1998	105^th	50.6	REP	36.6	82	REP	67.0	72
	1999	106^th	37.8	REP	35.4	82	REP	42.2	45
	2000	106^th	55.0	REP	49.3	69	REP	65.0	40
Average			57.6%		51.7%			65.4%

George W. Bush	2001	107^th	86.7	REP	83.7	43	DEM*	88.3	77
	2002	107^th	87.8	REP	82.5	40	DEM*	91.4	58
	2003	108^th	78.7	REP	87.3	48	REP	74.8	89
	2004	108^th	72.6	REP	70.6	24	REP	74.0	37
	2005	109^th	78.0	REP	78.3	46	REP	77.8	45
	2006	109^th	80.9	REP	85.0	40	REP	78.6	70
	2007	110^th	38.3	DEM	15.4	117	DEM	66.0	97
	2008	110^th	26.3	DEM	33.8	80	DEM	68.5	54
Average			68.7%		67.1%			77.4%

Barack Obama	2009	111^th	96.7	DEM	94.4	72	DEM	98.8	79
	2010	111^th	85.8	DEM	88.1	42	DEM	84.4	64
	2011	112^th	57.1	REP	31.6	95	DEM	84.3	89
	2012	112^th	53.6	REP	19.7	61	DEM	79.7	79
	2013	113^th	56.7	REP	20.9	86	DEM	85.2	108
Average			70.0%		50.9%			86.5%

Citation: "House and Senate Concurrence with Presidents." The American Presidency Project. Ed. John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California. 1999-2016.
Available from the World Wide Web: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/concurrence.php.

Notes:
* On June 6, 2001, Senator Jim Jeffords (NH) left the Republican Party and became an independent. He chose to caucus with the Democrats and therefore made the Democratic Party the majority party in the Senate. Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD) became the majority leader.

Data Sources:
• Lyn Ragsdale, "Vital Statistics on the Presidency." CQ Press (various editions)
• Harold Stanley and Richard Niemi, "Vital Statistics on American Politics." CQ Press (various editions)
• "Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report" (various editions)

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