Approval of Congressional Incumbent Running for Re-Election 1980 -2016
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| '80 | '82 | '84 | '86 | '88 | '90 | '92 | '94 | '96 | '98 | '00 | '02 | '04 | '06 | '08 | '10 | '12 | '14 | '16 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Approve | 57 (745) |
52 (646) |
69 (1210) |
59 (1171) |
66 (1089) |
64 (1134) |
62 (985) |
59 (879) |
66 (881) |
61 (685) |
58 (819) |
** | 61 (595) |
** | 52 (928) |
** | 61 (1904) |
** | 65 (2297) |
| Disapprove | 8 (104) |
8 (102) |
9 (162) |
8 (160) |
7 (110) |
11 (188) |
12 (190) |
13 (195) |
14 (193) |
12 (141) |
11 (157) |
** | 11 (103) |
** | 19 (342) |
** | 30 (923) |
** | 28 (976) |
| Don't Know | 34 (447) |
40 (489) |
22 (380) |
33 (656) |
28 (463) |
26 (456) |
26 (403) |
28 (417) |
20 (261) |
27 (303) |
31 (436) |
** | 29 (279) |
** | 29 (527) |
** | 10 (299) |
** | 7 (244) |
| N | 1296 | 1237 | 1752 | 1987 | 1662 | 1778 | 1578 | 1491 | 1335 | 1129 | 1412 | 0 | 977 | 0 | 1797 | 0 | 3126 | 0 | 3517 |
Percentage Within Study Year
Table 8A.3.
Source: VCF0991 in the ANES Cumulative Data File dataset,
weighted with VCF0009z
Link to see data by mode (2012, 2016)
Percent among demographic groups who responded:
Question Text:
"In general, do you approve or disapprove of the way {running U.S. House incumbent Representative} has been handling his/her job?"
Note:
If the U.S. House representative in R's district was NOT running for re-election (i.e., was 'retiring'), then this question does not apply. The 1982 data set included 2 sets of approval vars for 2 running incumbents due to redistricting in two Congressional districts (19 cases); for this year, the incumbent who represented R's sampling location BEFORE the 1982 redistricting has been considered R's 'incumbent.'
For 1992 redistricted LA06, neither of 2 Republican 'incumbents' had previously represented the geographic area and are not included.
For 2012, the Don't Know category represents face-to-face cases only (in the 2012 Web instrument, a Don't Know category was not present).