Member Level Data Sets

There is a file in Microsoft Excel 97-2004 format (xls) for each whip count for which member-level positions could be discerned from the papers of the relevant party leader, typically the whip for the party during the two-year congress when the whip count occurred. Detailed information about the entries included in these files is provided in the codebook for the member-level data.

Member Level Codebook (pdf)

The member-level files are organized by party and Congress.  You can access these datasets via the party-congress links provided below.  If a whip count identification number is accompanied by an asterisk, then individual-level position data were not obtainable for the count.

Democrats
84th Congress (1955-56)
85th Congress (1957-58)
86th Congress (1959-60)
87th Congress (1961-62)
88th Congress (1963-64)
89th Congress (1965-66)
90th Congress (1967-68)
91st Congress (1969-70)
92nd Congress (1971-72)
93rd Congress (1973-74)
94th Congress (1975-76)
95th Congress (1977-78)
96th Congress (1979-80)
97th Congress (1981-82)
98th Congress (1983-84)
99th Congress (1985-86)

Republicans
94th Congress (1975-76)
95th Congress (1977-78)
96th Congress (1979-80)