THE ANES GUIDE TO PUBLIC OPINION AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR ______________________________________________________ Congressional Vote 2 Major Parties 1952-2004 '52 '54 '56 '58 '60 '62 '64 '66 '68 '70 '72 '74 '76 '78 '80 '82 '84 '86 '88 '90 '92 '94 '96 '98 '00 '02 '04 Democrat 49 ** 53 61 56 58 65 57 52 54 56 62 57 58 54 57 55 60 59 64 59 47 49 49 51 47 53 Republican 51 ** 47 40 44 42 35 43 48 46 44 38 43 42 46 43 45 40 41 36 41 53 51 51 49 53 47 ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ N 1013 1157 962 1198 698 957 677 871 683 1337 1120 1317 1009 859 712 1185 981 1054 801 1365 884 952 529 842 638 688 PERCENTAGE WITHIN STUDY YEAR Table 9B.1 Source: The American National Election Studies This question is variable VCF0707 in the ANES Cumulative Data File dataset. Consult the Cumulative Data File codebook for complete question text and annotation. Weight variable VCF0009A was used to produce this table (see weight documentation). Table generated: 27NOV05