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Table 2 Years covered, total number of members (nodes), number of Democrats (excluding leaders), number of Republicans (excluding leaders), number of Democrat leaders, number of Republican leaders, and number of roll call votes for each Senate

From: Semi-supervised graph labelling reveals increasing partisanship in the United States Congress

Congress

Years

Members

  

Leaders

 

Votes

  

Total

Dem

Rep

Dem

Rep

 

74

1935 - 37

97

71

24

1

1

134

75

1937 - 39

98

80

15

2

1

130

76

1939 - 41

100

72

26

1

1

190

77

1941 - 43

106

74

30

1

1

122

78

1943 - 45

102

59

40

1

2

188

79

1945 - 47

102

59

41

1

1

151

80

1947 - 49

97

45

50

1

1

200

81

1949 - 51

107

59

46

1

1

375

82

1951 - 53

98

50

45

1

2

251

83

1953 - 55

109

52

54

1

2

159

84

1955 - 57

98

50

46

1

1

134

85

1957 - 59

101

52

47

1

1

149

86

1959 - 61

103

66

35

1

1

249

87

1961 - 63

105

64

39

1

1

272

88

1963 - 65

102

68

32

1

1

362

89

1965 - 67

103

69

32

1

1

295

90

1967 - 69

101

63

36

1

1

372

91

1969 - 71

102

57

42

1

2

328

92

1971 - 73

99

54

43

1

1

566

93

1973 - 75

100

56

42

1

1

582

94

1975 - 77

99

60

37

1

1

694

95

1977 - 79

103

64

37

1

1

495

96

1979 - 81

100

58

40

1

1

619

97

1981 - 83

100

45

53

1

1

471

98

1983 - 85

101

45

54

1

1

299

99

1985 - 87

101

46

53

1

1

355

100

1987 - 89

101

54

45

1

1

335

101

1989 - 91

101

55

44

1

1

280

102

1991 - 93

102

57

43

1

1

301

103

1993 - 95

101

56

43

1

1

465

104

1995 - 97

103

47

53

1

2

610

105

1997 - 99

100

44

54

1

1

329

106

1999 - 01

102

45

55

1

1

378

107

2001 - 03

100

49

49

1

1

332

108

2003 - 05

99

47

50

1

1

402

109

2005 - 07

100

44

54

1

1

376

110

2007 - 09

101

49 *

50

1

1

369

111

2009 - 11

110

65

43

1

1

512

112

2011 - 13

101

52

47

1

1

267

113

2013 - 15

103

56

45

1

1

433

114

2015 - 17

98

43

53

1

1

303

115

2017 - 19

103

47

54

1

1

378

  1. *Democrats formed a working majority in coalition with two Independent Senators
  2. Senates where the number of Democrats is shown in bold had a Democrat majority, and Senates where the number of Republicans is shown in bold had a Republican majority