VAR CF1005 PARTY OF VOTER/HOUSE INCUMBENT
COLUMNS 695 - 695
NUMERIC
MD EQ 0 OR GE 9
VOTER FROM SAME MAJOR PARTY AS HOUSE INCUMBENT?
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USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.
SEE NOTES VCF1004.
If R has no major party partisanship AND did not vote, then s/he
appears in code 9, not code 3.
Note that for 1992 redistricted LA06 (2 Republican 'incumbents'
neither of whom had previously represented the geographic area) this
variable has been coded INAP 9.
1. R VOTED: R is partisan of same party as incumbent
2. R VOTED: R is partisan of same major party as challenger
OR (unopposed races) R is partisan of major party
different from incumbent's party
3. R is major party partisan but R did not vote, DK/NA if
voted, or R voted but not (or DK/NA if) in House race
9. R does not have major party partisanship or NA if has major
party partisanship; INAP, no incumbent running; Washington
D.C.; no post IW (1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996);
California (1974 only, due to redistricting type of race
could not be determined); incumbent is not member of major
party (1994)
0. INAP, question not used
1970: 184,213 1974: 2204,2320 1976: 3174,3671
1978: 4,433,473 1980: 266,740,997 1982: 6,291,505
1984: 59,318,791 1986: 43,265,300 1988: 50,274,766
1990: 58,279,320 1992: 3021,3634,5601 1994: 17,655,601
1996: 960420,960097 1998: 980339,980065,
961074,961087 980303,980311
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