Dataset
Composition of Congress, by Political Party: 1961 to 2007
The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the US Census Department as Microsoft Excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and, worst of all, the table headers are not easily matched to their rows and columns.
A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no data were changed.
The tables that were changed (this is table 392):
0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467 0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629 1144 1227 1231
This dataset consists of a table of 30 rows and 9 columns.
D=Democratic, R=Republican. As of beginning of first session of each Congress. Data reflect immediate result of elections. Vacancies and third party candidates are noted
Footnotes
- House had one vacancy.
- Senate had one Independent and one Conservative-Republican.
- House had one Independent-Democrat.
- Senate had one Independent and one Conservative-Republican.
- Senate had one Independent.
- House had one Independent-Socialist.
- House had one Independent-Socialist and one Independent
- House and Senate each had one Independent.
- Senate had two Independents.
License
Public Domain (Government Work)
This dataset was prepared by the government and is therefore in the public domain. There are no restrictions upon its use.