Rep. Ronald Dellums

Former Representative from California's 9^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title / State / District
1993-1998	Representative, California's 9^th District
1975-1992	Representative, California's 8^th District
1971-1974	Representative, California's 7^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Dellums was a far-left Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Dellums’s time serving in the House of Representatives. Dellums’s bills had a total of 49 cosponsors in the 105^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Dellums to other members of the House of Representatives in the 105^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 Dellums’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1971 to Feb 1998, Dellums missed 1,233 of 14,188 roll call votes, which is 8.7%. This is worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Feb 1998. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1971 Jan-Mar	22	6	27.3%	76^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	24	26.7%	82^nd
1971 Jul-Sep	72	9	12.5%	82^nd
1971 Oct-Dec	128	19	14.8%	59^th
1972 Jan-Mar	62	14	22.6%	82^nd
1972 Apr-Jun	112	22	19.6%	65^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	5	5.0%	24^th
1972 Oct-Oct	49	6	12.2%	56^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	29^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	5	2.6%	21^st
1973 Jul-Sep	130	3	2.3%	46^th
1973 Oct-Dec	177	23	13.0%	68^th
1974 Jan-Mar	75	11	14.7%	86^th
1974 Apr-Jun	166	22	13.3%	71^st
1974 Jul-Sep	145	7	4.8%	54^th
1974 Oct-Dec	140	17	12.1%	79^th
1975 Jan-Mar	66	7	10.6%	83^rd
1975 Apr-Jun	199	12	6.0%	53^rd
1975 Jul-Sep	145	9	6.2%	63^rd
1975 Oct-Dec	189	2	1.1%	23^rd
1976 Jan-Mar	103	14	13.6%	88^th
1976 Apr-Jun	264	28	10.6%	63^rd
1976 Jul-Sep	279	23	8.2%	63^rd
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	99	6	6.1%	61^st
1977 Apr-Jun	271	26	9.6%	73^rd
1977 Jul-Sep	198	7	3.5%	37^th
1977 Oct-Dec	131	7	5.3%	56^th
1978 Jan-Mar	145	28	19.3%	92^nd
1978 Apr-Jun	292	70	24.0%	85^th
1978 Jul-Sep	304	36	11.8%	67^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	4	5.3%	44^th
1979 Jan-Mar	60	2	3.3%	67^th
1979 Apr-Jun	215	28	13.0%	80^th
1979 Jul-Sep	197	25	12.7%	84^th
1979 Oct-Dec	188	34	18.1%	84^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	23	15.5%	80^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	28	14.3%	79^th
1980 Jul-Sep	190	27	14.2%	80^th
1980 Oct-Dec	66	21	31.8%	89^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	87	13	14.9%	87^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	7	6.6%	65^th
1981 Oct-Dec	137	35	25.5%	97^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	13	27.1%	91^st
1982 Apr-Jun	119	6	5.0%	57^th
1982 Jul-Sep	192	19	9.9%	79^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	11	11.1%	68^th
1983 Jan-Mar	42	8	19.0%	92^nd
1983 Apr-Jun	182	11	6.0%	52^nd
1983 Jul-Sep	126	27	21.4%	98^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	18	12.6%	87^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	1	1.9%	24^th
1984 Apr-Jun	222	14	6.3%	57^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	3	3.2%	39^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	2	5.6%	49^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	66^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	12	7.8%	76^th
1985 Jul-Sep	100	2	2.0%	41^st
1985 Oct-Dec	148	6	4.1%	54^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	3	4.9%	42^nd
1986 Apr-Jun	125	12	9.6%	90^th
1986 Jul-Sep	197	5	2.5%	50^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	4	6.7%	65^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	1	2.6%	43^rd
1987 Apr-Jun	187	4	2.1%	33^rd
1987 Jul-Sep	95	3	3.2%	57^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	18	10.8%	78^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	4	8.2%	72^nd
1988 Apr-Jun	159	7	4.4%	60^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	9	5.9%	67^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	2	2.2%	53^rd
1989 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	55^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	8	7.6%	85^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	2	1.6%	36^th
1989 Oct-Nov	119	6	5.0%	71^st
1990 Jan-Mar	60	4	6.7%	81^st
1990 Apr-Jun	150	13	8.7%	86^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	6	3.3%	54^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	7	4.9%	62^nd
1991 Jan-Mar	62	5	8.1%	87^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	2	1.4%	28^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	5	6.2%	69^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	17	10.5%	93^rd
1992 Jan-Mar	66	8	12.1%	88^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	10	5.4%	71^st
1992 Jul-Sep	196	8	4.1%	61^st
1992 Oct-Oct	41	7	17.1%	91^st
1993 Jan-Mar	127	18	14.2%	98^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	18	9.5%	87^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	4	2.4%	61^st
1993 Oct-Nov	134	8	6.0%	86^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	8	8.4%	84^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	13	5.9%	82^nd
1994 Jul-Sep	142	6	4.2%	67^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	4	7.8%	86^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	3	1.1%	46^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	5	2.6%	61^st
1995 Jul-Sep	232	4	1.7%	49^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	3	1.6%	44^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	7	6.4%	83^rd
1996 Apr-Jun	182	3	1.6%	41^st
1996 Jul-Sep	163	15	9.2%	93^rd
1997 Jan-Mar	71	2	2.8%	57^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	1	0.6%	18^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	40	17.2%	98^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	13	8.0%	86^th
1998 Jan-Mar	11	4	36.4%	99^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

Rep. Ronald Dellums [D-CA9, 1993-1998] leaves office as Representative for California's 9th congressional district

Feb 07, 1998

Elections and Offices

Rep. Ronald Dellums [D-CA9, 1993-1998] takes office as Representative for California's 9th congressional district

Jan 05, 1993

Elections and Offices

Rep. Ronald Dellums [D-CA9, 1993-1998] leaves office as Representative for California's 8th congressional district

Oct 09, 1992

Elections and Offices

Rep. Ronald Dellums [D-CA9, 1993-1998] takes office as Representative for California's 8th congressional district

Jan 14, 1975

Elections and Offices

Rep. Ronald Dellums [D-CA9, 1993-1998] leaves office as Representative for California's 7th congressional district

Dec 20, 1974