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Composition of Congress, by Political Party: 1961 to 2007

Table 392 of the 2008 US Statistical Abstract

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

  1. House had one vacancy.
  2. Senate had one Independent and one Conservative-Republican.
  3. House had one Independent-Democrat.
  4. Senate had one Independent and one Conservative-Republican.
  5. Senate had one Independent.
  6. House had one Independent-Socialist.
  7. House had one Independent-Socialist and one Independent
  8. House and Senate each had one Independent.
  9. Senate had two Independents.

Snippet

Majority party Minority party Other Majority party Minority party Other
1961 D (Kennedy) 87th D-262 R-175 0 D-64 R-36 0
1963 1 D (Kennedy) 88th D-258 R-176 0 D-67 R-33 0
1965 D (Johnson) 89th D-295 R-140 0 D-68 R-32 0
1967 D (Johnson) 90th D-248 R-187 0 D-64 R-36 0
1969 R (Nixon) 91st D-243 R-192 0 D-58 R-42 0
1971 2 R (Nixon) 92d D-255 R-180 0 D-54 R-44 2
1973 2, 3 R (Nixon) 93d D-242 R-192 1 D-56 R-42 2
1975 4 R (Ford) 94th D-291 R-144 0 D-61 R-37 2
1977 5 D (Carter) 95th D-292 R-143 0 D-61 R-38 1
9=. ... __snip__ ...
Source: U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, Official List of Members, annual.

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