Harold Runnels, former Representative from New Mexico's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1971-1980	Representative	New Mexico's 2^nd District

Sponsorship Analysis

Runnels was a centrist Democratic follower according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Runnels’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Runnels to other members of the House of Representatives in the 96^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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Voting Record

From Jan 1971 to Jul 1980, Runnels missed 1,213 of 5,416 roll call votes, which is 22.4%. This is worse than the median of 7.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jul 1980. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1971 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	34^th
1971 Apr-Jun	84	71	84.5%	99^th
1971 Jul-Sep	70	7	10.0%	61^st
1971 Oct-Dec	133	38	28.6%	89^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	4	6.3%	39^th
1972 Apr-Jun	112	19	17.0%	71^st
1972 Jul-Sep	100	15	15.0%	71^st
1972 Oct-Oct	48	21	43.8%	91^st
1973 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	19	10.1%	63^rd
1973 Jul-Sep	129	22	17.1%	90^th
1973 Oct-Dec	179	53	29.6%	95^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	2	2.6%	19^th
1974 Apr-Jun	166	42	25.3%	94^th
1974 Jul-Sep	146	6	4.1%	46^th
1974 Oct-Dec	139	41	29.5%	95^th
1975 Jan-Mar	63	9	14.3%	84^th
1975 Apr-Jun	198	8	4.0%	41^st
1975 Jul-Sep	146	8	5.5%	50^th
1975 Oct-Dec	183	17	9.3%	78^th
1976 Jan-Mar	101	24	23.8%	95^th
1976 Apr-Jun	256	29	11.3%	68^th
1976 Jul-Sep	277	24	8.7%	67^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	1	1.0%	13^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	22	8.1%	61^st
1977 Jul-Sep	198	30	15.2%	86^th
1977 Oct-Dec	129	8	6.2%	55^th
1978 Jan-Mar	148	22	14.9%	83^rd
1978 Apr-Jun	245	235	95.9%	99^th
1978 Jul-Sep	299	36	12.0%	71^st
1978 Oct-Oct	75	9	12.0%	77^th
1979 Jan-Mar	54	19	35.2%	97^th
1979 Apr-Jun	208	52	25.0%	94^th
1979 Jul-Sep	196	11	5.6%	47^th
1979 Oct-Dec	185	78	42.2%	97^th
1980 Jan-Mar	139	42	30.2%	91^st
1980 Apr-Jun	193	119	61.7%	99^th
1980 Jul-Sep	49	49	100.0%	100^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Harold Runnels [D-NM2, 1971-1980] leaves office as Representative for New Mexico's 2nd congressional district

Dec 16, 1980

Elections and Offices

Rep. Harold Runnels [D-NM2, 1971-1980] takes office as Representative for New Mexico's 2nd congressional district

Jan 21, 1971

Rep. Harold Runnels

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices