Sen. John Johnston Jr.

Former Senator from Louisiana

Elected Positions

Dates	Title / State / District
1972-1996	Senator, Louisiana

Sponsorship Analysis

Johnston was a centrist Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Johnston’s time serving in the Senate. Johnston’s bills had a total of 85 cosponsors in the 104^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Johnston to other members of the Senate in the 104^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

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

Bills Sponsored

Some of Johnston’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1973 to Oct 1996, Johnston missed 869 of 10,609 roll call votes, which is 8.2%. This is worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1996. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1973 Jan-Mar	67	19	28.4%	94^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	14	7.3%	44^th
1973 Jul-Sep	166	29	17.5%	94^th
1973 Oct-Dec	168	19	11.3%	69^th
1974 Jan-Mar	93	5	5.4%	31^st
1974 Apr-Jun	176	15	8.5%	69^th
1974 Jul-Sep	137	23	16.8%	81^st
1974 Oct-Dec	133	35	26.3%	88^th
1975 Jan-Mar	117	3	2.6%	50^th
1975 Apr-Jun	139	16	11.5%	70^th
1975 Jul-Sep	166	9	5.4%	40^th
1975 Oct-Dec	180	19	10.6%	60^th
1976 Jan-Mar	103	3	2.9%	30^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	30	11.4%	65^th
1976 Jul-Sep	313	49	15.7%	70^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	92	11	12.0%	60^th
1977 Apr-Jun	176	17	9.7%	52^nd
1977 Jul-Sep	232	30	12.9%	96^th
1977 Oct-Dec	132	13	9.8%	52^nd
1978 Jan-Mar	78	15	19.2%	80^th
1978 Apr-Jun	119	14	11.8%	72^nd
1978 Jul-Sep	235	123	52.3%	96^th
1978 Oct-Oct	85	10	11.8%	68^th
1979 Feb-Mar	32	2	6.3%	49^th
1979 Apr-Jun	121	16	13.2%	78^th
1979 Jul-Sep	169	8	4.7%	43^rd
1979 Oct-Dec	184	15	8.2%	54^th
1980 Jan-Mar	67	3	4.5%	41^st
1980 Apr-Jun	216	15	6.9%	38^th
1980 Jul-Sep	178	24	13.5%	89^th
1980 Oct-Dec	84	25	29.8%	89^th
1981 Jan-Mar	57	1	1.8%	41^st
1981 Apr-Jun	124	3	2.4%	48^th
1981 Jul-Sep	122	8	6.6%	73^rd
1981 Oct-Dec	191	12	6.3%	61^st
1982 Feb-Mar	77	1	1.3%	27^th
1982 Apr-Jun	125	9	7.2%	75^th
1982 Jul-Sep	176	4	2.3%	45^th
1982 Oct-Dec	85	4	4.7%	70^th
1983 Feb-Mar	54	4	7.4%	72^nd
1983 Apr-Jun	121	5	4.1%	61^st
1983 Jul-Sep	92	4	4.3%	57^th
1983 Oct-Nov	101	15	14.9%	74^th
1984 Jan-Mar	45	3	6.7%	61^st
1984 Apr-Jun	144	10	6.9%	59^th
1984 Jul-Sep	68	7	10.3%	80^th
1984 Oct-Oct	35	4	11.4%	74^th
1985 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	60^th
1985 Apr-Jun	116	3	2.6%	56^th
1985 Jul-Sep	60	3	5.0%	62^nd
1985 Oct-Dec	183	11	6.0%	71^st
1986 Jan-Mar	51	2	3.9%	56^th
1986 Apr-Jun	102	1	1.0%	48^th
1986 Jul-Sep	149	2	1.3%	48^th
1986 Oct-Oct	55	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jan-Mar	50	2	4.0%	58^th
1987 Apr-Jun	123	16	13.0%	85^th
1987 Jul-Sep	120	2	1.7%	22^nd
1987 Oct-Dec	127	1	0.8%	12^th
1988 Jan-Mar	84	7	8.3%	58^th
1988 Apr-Jun	136	7	5.1%	68^th
1988 Jul-Sep	127	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Oct-Oct	31	6	19.4%	85^th
1989 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jul-Sep	118	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Oct-Nov	91	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Jan-Mar	48	1	2.1%	62^nd
1990 Apr-Jun	95	1	1.1%	42^nd
1990 Jul-Sep	114	17	14.9%	99^th
1990 Oct-Oct	69	1	1.4%	68^th
1991 Jan-Mar	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Apr-Jun	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Jul-Sep	96	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Oct-Nov	69	4	5.8%	79^th
1992 Jan-Mar	61	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Apr-Jun	74	3	4.1%	74^th
1992 Jul-Sep	117	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Feb-Mar	93	2	2.2%	80^th
1993 Apr-Jun	99	1	1.0%	31^st
1993 Jul-Sep	109	1	0.9%	42^nd
1993 Oct-Nov	94	2	2.1%	60^th
1994 Jan-Mar	86	13	15.1%	97^th
1994 Apr-Jun	92	1	1.1%	37^th
1994 Jul-Sep	136	3	2.2%	54^th
1994 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jan-Mar	125	20	16.0%	97^th
1995 Apr-Jun	171	1	0.6%	23^rd
1995 Jul-Sep	184	8	4.3%	85^th
1995 Oct-Dec	133	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Jan-Mar	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Apr-Jun	122	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Jul-Sep	121	3	2.5%	78^th
1996 Oct-Oct	3	0	0.0%	0^th

Primary Sources

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

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. John Johnston [D-LA, 1972-1996] leaves office as Senator from Louisiana

Oct 04, 1996

Elections and Offices

Sen. John Johnston [D-LA, 1972-1996] takes office as Senator from Louisiana

Jan 01, 1972