Senate Party Unity Scores for the 109th Congress — Arranged by State
The table below shows how frequently senators supported their party in 2005 and 2006. The scores reflect the percentage of the time that a lawmaker's vote on the floor matched his or her party's majority on roll-call votes that pitted a most Democrats against most Republicans. The two parties split on 389 of 645 Senate roll-call votes over the two years.
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| STATE |
POS |
NAME |
PARTY |
PARTY SUPPORT SCORE |
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| Alabama |
1 |
Richard C. Shelby |
R |
92 |
| Alabama |
2 |
Jeff Sessions |
R |
97 |
| Alaska |
1 |
Ted Stevens |
R |
89 |
| Alaska |
2 |
Lisa Murkowski |
R |
88 |
| Arizona |
1 |
John McCain |
R |
81 |
| Arizona |
2 |
Jon Kyl |
R |
97 |
| Arkansas |
1 |
Blanche Lincoln |
D |
81 |
| Arkansas |
2 |
Mark Pryor |
D |
79 |
| California |
1 |
Dianne Feinstein |
D |
91 |
| California |
2 |
Barbara Boxer |
D |
98 |
| Colorado |
1 |
Wayne Allard |
R |
96 |
| Colorado |
2 |
Ken Salazar |
D |
86 |
| Connecticut |
1 |
Christopher J. Dodd |
D |
94 |
| Connecticut |
2 |
Joseph I. Lieberman |
D |
88 |
| Delaware |
1 |
Joseph R. Biden Jr. |
D |
90 |
| Delaware |
2 |
Thomas R. Carper |
D |
78 |
| Florida |
1 |
Bill Nelson |
D |
80 |
| Florida |
2 |
Mel Martinez |
R |
91 |
| Georgia |
1 |
Saxby Chambliss |
R |
95 |
| Georgia |
2 |
Johnny Isakson |
R |
96 |
| Hawaii |
1 |
Daniel K. Inouye |
D |
90 |
| Hawaii |
2 |
Daniel K. Akaka |
D |
96 |
| Idaho |
1 |
Larry E. Craig |
R |
92 |
| Idaho |
2 |
Michael D. Crapo |
R |
95 |
| Illinois |
1 |
Richard J. Durbin |
D |
98 |
| Illinois |
2 |
Barack Obama |
D |
97 |
| Indiana |
1 |
Richard G. Lugar |
R |
83 |
| Indiana |
2 |
Evan Bayh |
D |
89 |
| Iowa |
1 |
Charles E. Grassley |
R |
95 |
| Iowa |
2 |
Tom Harkin |
D |
97 |
| Kansas |
1 |
Sam Brownback |
R |
91 |
| Kansas |
2 |
Pat Roberts |
R |
94 |
| Kentucky |
1 |
Mitch McConnell |
R |
98 |
| Kentucky |
2 |
Jim Bunning |
R |
98 |
| Louisiana |
1 |
Mary L. Landrieu |
D |
76 |
| Louisiana |
2 |
David Vitter |
R |
94 |
| Maine |
1 |
Olympia J. Snowe |
R |
56 |
| Maine |
2 |
Susan Collins |
R |
62 |
| Maryland |
1 |
Paul S. Sarbanes |
D |
98 |
| Maryland |
2 |
Barbara A. Mikulski |
D |
97 |
| Massachusetts |
1 |
Edward M. Kennedy |
D |
99 |
| Massachusetts |
2 |
John Kerry |
D |
96 |
| Michigan |
1 |
Carl Levin |
D |
96 |
| Michigan |
2 |
Debbie Stabenow |
D |
92 |
| Minnesota |
1 |
Mark Dayton |
D |
95 |
| Minnesota |
2 |
Norm Coleman |
R |
77 |
| Mississippi |
1 |
Thad Cochran |
R |
93 |
| Mississippi |
2 |
Trent Lott |
R |
95 |
| Missouri |
1 |
Christopher S. Bond |
R |
93 |
| Missouri |
2 |
Jim Talent |
R |
84 |
| Montana |
1 |
Max Baucus |
D |
76 |
| Montana |
2 |
Conrad Burns |
R |
92 |
| Nebraska |
1 |
Chuck Hagel |
R |
90 |
| Nebraska |
2 |
Ben Nelson |
D |
42 |
| Nevada |
1 |
Harry Reid |
D |
93 |
| Nevada |
2 |
John Ensign |
R |
93 |
| New
Hampshire |
1 |
Judd Gregg |
R |
90 |
| New
Hampshire |
2 |
John E. Sununu |
R |
89 |
| New
Jersey |
1 |
Frank R. Lautenberg |
D |
97 |
| New
Jersey |
2 |
Robert Menendez |
D |
95 |
| New
Jersey |
2 |
Jon S. Corzine |
D |
98 |
| New
Mexico |
1 |
Pete V. Domenici |
R |
89 |
| New
Mexico |
2 |
Jeff Bingaman |
D |
89 |
| New
York |
1 |
Charles E. Schumer |
D |
93 |
| New
York |
2 |
Hillary Rodham Clinton |
D |
94 |
| North
Carolina |
1 |
Elizabeth Dole |
R |
94 |
| North
Carolina |
2 |
Richard M. Burr |
R |
95 |
| North
Dakota |
1 |
Kent Conrad |
D |
77 |
| North
Dakota |
2 |
Byron L. Dorgan |
D |
85 |
| Ohio |
1 |
Mike DeWine |
R |
68 |
| Ohio |
2 |
George V. Voinovich |
R |
81 |
| Oklahoma |
1 |
James M. Inhofe |
R |
94 |
| Oklahoma |
2 |
Tom Coburn |
R |
93 |
| Oregon |
1 |
Ron Wyden |
D |
94 |
| Oregon |
2 |
Gordon H. Smith |
R |
81 |
| Pennsylvania |
1 |
Arlen Specter |
R |
66 |
| Pennsylvania |
2 |
Rick Santorum |
R |
92 |
| Rhode
Island |
1 |
Jack Reed |
D |
97 |
| Rhode
Island |
2 |
Lincoln Chafee |
R |
44 |
| South
Carolina |
1 |
Lindsey Graham |
R |
88 |
| South
Carolina |
2 |
Jim DeMint |
R |
97 |
| South
Dakota |
1 |
Tim Johnson |
D |
83 |
| South
Dakota |
2 |
John Thune |
R |
90 |
| Tennessee |
1 |
Bill Frist |
R |
95 |
| Tennessee |
2 |
Lamar Alexander |
R |
93 |
| Texas |
1 |
Kay Bailey Hutchison |
R |
90 |
| Texas |
2 |
John Cornyn |
R |
96 |
| Utah |
1 |
Orrin G. Hatch |
R |
95 |
| Utah |
2 |
Robert F. Bennett |
R |
93 |
| Vermont |
1 |
Patrick J. Leahy |
D |
97 |
| Vermont |
2 |
James M. Jeffords |
I |
91 |
| Virginia |
1 |
John W. Warner |
R |
84 |
| Virginia |
2 |
George Allen |
R |
95 |
| Washington |
1 |
Patty Murray |
D |
94 |
| Washington |
2 |
Maria Cantwell |
D |
92 |
| West
Virginia |
1 |
Robert C. Byrd |
D |
80 |
| West
Virginia |
2 |
John D. Rockefeller IV |
D |
90 |
| Wisconsin |
1 |
Herb Kohl |
D |
89 |
| Wisconsin |
2 |
Russell D. Feingold |
D |
94 |
| Wyoming |
1 |
Craig Thomas |
R |
95 |
| Wyoming |
2 |
Michael B. Enzi |
R |
96 |
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