Rep. Manuel Luján Jr.

Former Representative from New Mexico's 1^st District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1969-1988	Representative	New Mexico's 1^st District

Sponsorship Analysis

Luján was a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Luján’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Luján to other members of the House of Representatives in the 100^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 1969 to Oct 1988, Luján missed 1,186 of 9,657 roll call votes, which is 12.3%. This is worse than the median of 5.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1988. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1969 Jan-Mar	16	2	12.5%	76^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	8	28.6%	94^th
1969 Jul-Sep	42	7	16.7%	84^th
1969 Oct-Dec	86	16	18.6%	80^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	3	8.6%	42^nd
1970 Apr-Jun	72	17	23.6%	72^nd
1970 Jul-Sep	71	22	31.0%	86^th
1970 Oct-Dec	77	45	58.4%	97^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	8	9.0%	36^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	16	22.2%	89^th
1971 Oct-Dec	131	46	35.1%	94^th
1972 Jan-Mar	61	2	3.3%	34^th
1972 Apr-Jun	109	46	42.2%	93^rd
1972 Jul-Sep	100	32	32.0%	92^nd
1972 Oct-Oct	48	15	31.3%	82^nd
1973 Jan-Mar	34	4	11.8%	66^th
1973 Apr-Jun	188	21	11.2%	68^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	28	21.5%	90^th
1973 Oct-Dec	179	16	8.9%	66^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	7	9.1%	50^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	39	23.1%	90^th
1974 Jul-Sep	145	18	12.4%	82^nd
1974 Oct-Dec	139	26	18.7%	83^rd
1975 Jan-Mar	67	4	6.0%	64^th
1975 Apr-Jun	195	31	15.9%	92^nd
1975 Jul-Sep	145	16	11.0%	77^th
1975 Oct-Dec	184	13	7.1%	69^th
1976 Jan-Mar	105	23	21.9%	93^rd
1976 Apr-Jun	256	48	18.8%	87^th
1976 Jul-Sep	274	32	11.7%	75^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	98	9	9.2%	74^th
1977 Apr-Jun	267	29	10.9%	75^th
1977 Jul-Sep	196	4	2.0%	28^th
1977 Oct-Dec	130	24	18.5%	94^th
1978 Jan-Mar	145	11	7.6%	59^th
1978 Apr-Jun	290	52	17.9%	84^th
1978 Jul-Sep	307	46	15.0%	81^st
1978 Oct-Oct	69	55	79.7%	99^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	217	18	8.3%	62^nd
1979 Jul-Sep	198	2	1.0%	11^th
1979 Oct-Dec	188	23	12.2%	69^th
1980 Jan-Mar	147	15	10.2%	64^th
1980 Apr-Jun	194	32	16.5%	87^th
1980 Jul-Sep	188	19	10.1%	66^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	6	6.7%	53^rd
1981 Jul-Sep	106	11	10.4%	80^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	4	2.8%	23^rd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	4	8.3%	55^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	4	3.4%	42^nd
1982 Jul-Sep	192	8	4.2%	40^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	1	1.0%	8^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	1	2.3%	18^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	7	3.8%	32^nd
1983 Jul-Sep	129	4	3.1%	47^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	5	3.5%	32^nd
1984 Jan-Mar	52	4	7.7%	64^th
1984 Apr-Jun	222	4	1.8%	20^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	1	1.1%	17^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	3	8.3%	59^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	2	1.3%	15^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	1	1.0%	19^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	8	5.4%	62^nd
1986 Jan-Mar	61	3	4.9%	39^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	69	53.9%	100^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	5	2.5%	40^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	2	3.3%	45^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	2	5.1%	58^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	20	10.7%	84^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	1	0.6%	5^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	3	6.1%	53^rd
1988 Apr-Jun	161	25	15.5%	90^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	27	17.8%	90^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	1	1.1%	32^nd

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. Manuel Luján [R-NM1, 1969-1988] leaves office as Representative for New Mexico's 1st congressional district

Oct 22, 1988

Elections and Offices

Rep. Manuel Luján [R-NM1, 1969-1988] takes office as Representative for New Mexico's 1st congressional district

Jan 03, 1969