While her two closest competitors John C. Calhoun (31) and John Adam’s (29) aren’t far off, it took them both two terms to reach those numbers.

The most any fellow one term VP had was 19, achieved by George M. Dallas (1845-1849).

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    3 months ago

    It does. Joe Biden was VP for a lot longer than Harris, but according to the table linked in the OP, he cast 0 tie-breaking votes; if you look at Senate composition during that time, you can see that there was always a very clear majority for one party. Since 2017 it’s always been fairly close to 50-50, so there needed only to be a few (if any) senators breaking from their party to create ties, so Pence and Harris got plenty of opportunities to cast tie-breaking votes.