It seems counterintuitive in a time of intense partisanship and narrowly divided government, but the share of House votes where majorities in the two parties lined up on opposite sides from each other was lower last year than has been in more than a decade.
Just 53.1 percent of the 548 “yea” or “nay” votes taken in 2022 met the definition CQ Roll Call’s annual vote studies use for party unity votes. That’s down from 63.2 percent in 2021, and it’s the lowest rate for the House since it set a 40 percent mark in 2010.
At the same time, the Senate set a new high of 83.1 percent, with the parties divided on 350 of 421 votes last year. That broke the record set a year earlier of 79.2 percent.
