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Senator Deidre M. Henderson
Utah legislator profile

Years served in the Utah legislature

First session in legislature: 2013
Most recent year of service for which data are available: 2020
Total sessions served in Utah House as of 2020: 0
Total sessions served in Utah Senate as of 2020: 8

How to read the statistical profile

I present a variety of statistics about Sen. Deidre M. Henderson's service in the Utah legislature. I highlight differences from chamber averages using little green and red arrows. The number of arrows is statistically determined. More arrows indicate a larger difference compared to the chamber average, in relation to how much diversity there is among legislators on this metric. If all legislators introduce exactly 5 bills, then a legislator who introduces 10 is very different; if legislators vary wildly in how many bills they introduce (but the average is still 5), then a legislator who introduces 10 bills may be less different from average. The standard deviation measures this diversity.

Sen. Henderson's statistical profile

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Service summary. Service prior to 2007 (if any) is not shown here. My database goes back only to 2007.
  Chamber SenateSenateSenateSenateSenateSenateSenateSenate
  District S7S7S7S7S7S7S7S7
  Party RRRRRRRR
Leadership NoneNoneNoneNoneNoneNoneNoneNone
Years in chamber 12345678
Years comparison LowerLowerLowerLowerLowerLower====
 
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Bills sponsored (learn more) Bills written and promoted by the legislator in his/her own chamber.
Introduced by Henderson 6129881196
Chamber average 11111110119.6109.7
Difference -4.8+1.4-2.4-2.1-2.6+1.4-1.2-3.7
Comparison Lower======Lower====Lower
 
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Bill passage rate (learn more). What percent of Sen. Henderson's sponsored bills pass and are officially "enrolled"? (I ignore whether the governor signed or vetoted the bill.)
Bills introduced 6129881196
Bills passed 6109761096
Passage rate 100%83%100%88%75%91%100%100%
Chamber average 65%70%68%68%74%83%78%70%
Difference +35+13+32+20+1.3+7.7+22+30
Comparison HigherHigherHigherHigherHigherHigher==HigherHigherHigherHigherHigher
 
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Bills floor sponsored. A "floor sponsor" is like a secondary sponsor of a bill. After a bill passes the sponsor's chamber, its sponsor needs to find a "floor sponsor" in the other chamber to usher it through the other chamber.
Total floor sponsored 1017131920172118
Chamber average 1111121313141413
Difference -1.1+5.5+0.7+6.2+6.6+2.8+7.4+4.7
Comparison ==Higher==HigherHigher==HigherHigher
 
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Missed votes (learn more). Usually missed votes occur because of competing obligations within the legislature, not because the legislator has left the capitol.
Missed votes 25565329599270106
Total votes held 940840951860913926975910
Absentee rate 2.7%6.7%5.6%3.4%6.5%9.9%7.2%12%
Chamber average 11%12%12%14%10%13%11%11%
Difference -8.4-4.8-6.1-10.6-3.9-3.2-4.0+0.5
Comparison LowerLowerLowerLowerLowerLower==Lower==
 
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"Nay" votes (learn more). Most floor votes pass by overwhelming majorities, since unpopular bills get weeded out long before they reach the floor. As a result, "nay" votes are rare.
"Nay" votes 3438673520302813
Total votes held 940840951860913926975910
"Nay" rate 3.6%4.5%7.0%4.1%2.2%3.2%2.9%1.4%
Chamber average 3.7%3.6%4.8%3.7%2.8%3.2%2.7%2.5%
Difference -0.1+0.9+2.2+0.4-0.6+0.0+0.2-1.1
Comparison ==HigherHigher========Lower
 
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Winning side rate (learn more). What percentage of the time (excluding near-unanimous votes) is the legislator on the winning side of a floor vote?
Winning side rate 59%53%55%68%70%55%64%70%
Chamber average 69%67%68%67%68%68%70%71%
Difference -9.6-14.5-14.0+1.5+2.4-13.5-5.9-0.6
Comparison LowerLowerLower====LowerLowerLower==
 
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Ideology score (NOMINATE method) (learn more). Using W-NOMINATE algorithm developed by Congressional scholars, I calculate each legislator's relative ideology after each General Session. I describe the method here. Scores have no intrinsic meaning. They are only relative: A legislator with a higher score is to the right ideologically of a legislator with a lower scale. Scores may be compared only within a single chamber and a single year. In most years, a conservative Republican will have a score above 0; a score close to 100 is extreme.
Contact me for scores. They get misinterpreted often enough that I now provide them only to political scientists.
 
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Party support score (overall) (learn more). How consistently does Sen. Henderson support his/her party? That is, what percentage of the time does the legislator vote with the majority of the other members of his/her party? Scores are usually easily above 90%.
Score (overall) 97%95%93%97%98%97%97%99%
Chamber average 97%97%96%97%98%97%98%98%
Difference +0.4-1.3-2.9-0.5+0.1-0.1-1.2+0.4
Comparison ==LowerLower======LowerHigher
 
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Party support score (party-line only) (learn more). This is the same as the "raw" party support score, but we look only at party-line votes when calculating this. A "party-line" vote occurs when the majority of Democrats votes against the majority of Republicans. Although party-line votes are rare, looking at the legislator's party support score in this setting can be revealing.
Score (party-line only) 92%82%76%92%91%96%86%100%
Chamber average 85%84%83%87%86%85%92%91%
Difference +7.0-2.0-6.7+5.2+4.2+10-5.8+9.1
Comparison Higher==LowerHigherHigherHigherLowerLowerHigherHigher

Votes on Sen. Henderson's bills

Many votes have been held on bills sponsored by Sen. Henderson. In the interest of space, I display only the most and least divisive votes held on Sen. Henderson's bills.

Sen. Henderson's most divisive bills

Listed below are the 10 votes on bills sponsored by Sen. Henderson that had the closest vote margin (as a percent of the total votes cast). When there are ties, I list the most recent bills first.

Year Sponsor Bill Ayes Nays Margin
(as % of total votes)
Type of vote
2020 Henderson SB0119S03 29 41 17% House/ substitute adoption failed from # 3 to # 4
2013 Henderson SB0283 46 25 30% House/ passed 3rd reading
2015 Henderson SB0169 21 8 45% Senate/ passed 3rd reading
2019 Henderson SB0151S03 54 16 54% House/ passed 3rd reading
2015 Henderson SB0169 58 16 57% House/ passed 3rd reading
2019 Henderson SB0151S03 22 6 57% Senate/ passed 2nd reading
2015 Henderson SB0169 19 5 58% Senate/ passed 2nd reading
2013 Henderson SB0070 59 14 62% House/ passed 3rd reading
2016 Henderson SB0108S01 23 3 77% Senate/ passed 2nd reading
2019 Henderson SB0071S03 26 3 79% Senate/ passed 2nd reading

Sen. Henderson's least divisive bills

Listed below are the 10 votes on bills sponsored by Sen. Henderson that had the widest vote margin (as a percent of the total votes cast). When there are ties, I display the most recent bills first.

Year Sponsor Bill Ayes Nays Margin
(as % of total votes)
Type of vote
2020 Henderson SB0169 69 0 100% House/ passed 3rd reading
2020 Henderson SB0169 26 0 100% Senate/ passed 3rd reading
2020 Henderson SB0169 18 0 100% Senate/ passed 2nd reading
2020 Henderson SB0147S01 66 0 100% House/ passed 3rd reading
2020 Henderson SB0147S01 25 0 100% Senate/ passed 3rd reading
2020 Henderson SB0147S01 23 0 100% Senate/ passed 2nd reading
2020 Henderson SB0143 71 0 100% House/ passed 3rd reading
2020 Henderson SB0143 26 0 100% Senate/ passed 3rd reading
2020 Henderson SB0143 24 0 100% Senate/ passed 2nd reading
2020 Henderson SB0119S03 27 0 100% Senate/ concurs with House amendment