His resignation touched off a scramble for his non-voting congressional seat.
In congressional hearings, company directors denied negligence.
Polarization of congressional parties emerges as the ideological distribution of congressional seats changes.
The disappearance of these members brings party and constituency preferences into better alignment, thus allowing for the repolarization of congressional parties.
Thus, the re-polarization of congressional elections lagged behind the polarization of national presidential politics.
The average (199,685) is derived from total numbers of votes cast in the 1996 congressional election (86,863,000) divided by the number of seats elected (435).
For both issues, the divergence between presidential and congressional elections becomes apparent from around 1964.
