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Political scientists have developed advanced algorithms that can calculate each legislator's ideology score based on his or her legislative voting record. Here I use the W-NOMINATE method (it's an acronym, hence the caps). Important caveats:
You can find a thorough discussion of these ideology scores at the Utah data points blog.
The scores below are for 2017 in the Utah House of Representatives. Select a different year here:
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The plot below summarizes how many legislators fall into each score range. There is one "D" for each Democrat in the given range, and one "R" for each Republican. There are 75 legislators in the Utah House of Representatives.
-100 to -90 | DDDDDDD -90.1 to -80 | DD -80.1 to -70 | DDD -70.1 to -60 | -60.1 to -50 | -50.1 to -40 | D -40.1 to -30 | -30.1 to -20 | -20.1 to -10 | -10.1 to 0 | 0.1 to 10 | RR 10.1 to 20 | RRRRR 20.1 to 30 | RRRRRRRRR 30.1 to 40 | RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR 40.1 to 50 | RRRRRRRRRR 50.1 to 60 | RRRRRRRRRR 60.1 to 70 | RRRRR 70.1 to 80 | RRR 80.1 to 90 | RRR 90.1 to 100 |
If you use this data in published work, please credit me appropriately.
Legislator | Party | Chamber | Year | Ideology score |
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Romero, Angela | D | House | 2017 | -98.7 |
Chavez-Houck, Rebecca | D | House | 2017 | -96.2 |
Briscoe, Joel K. | D | House | 2017 | -96.0 |
Hollins, Sandra | D | House | 2017 | -95.2 |
Arent, Patrice M. | D | House | 2017 | -92.0 |
Kwan, Karen | D | House | 2017 | -90.7 |
Weight, Elizabeth | D | House | 2017 | -90.1 |
Moss, Carol Spackman | D | House | 2017 | -82.2 |
Poulson, Marie H. | D | House | 2017 | -80.9 |
Hemingway, Lynn N. | D | House | 2017 | -79.1 |
Wheatley, Mark A. | D | House | 2017 | -76.5 |
King, Brian S. | D | House | 2017 | -73.6 |
Duckworth, Susan | D | House | 2017 | -45.6 |
Edwards, Rebecca P. | R | House | 2017 | 7.5 |
Ward, Raymond P. | R | House | 2017 | 8.4 |
Owens, Derrin | R | House | 2017 | 14.5 |
Redd, Edward H. | R | House | 2017 | 15.3 |
Spendlove, Robert M. | R | House | 2017 | 15.9 |
Winder, Mike | R | House | 2017 | 16.2 |
Hall, Craig | R | House | 2017 | 16.6 |
Potter, Val K. | R | House | 2017 | 21.5 |
Handy, Stephen G. | R | House | 2017 | 22.0 |
Miles, Kelly B. | R | House | 2017 | 23.2 |
Pitcher, Dixon M. | R | House | 2017 | 23.6 |
Hutchings, Eric K. | R | House | 2017 | 25.5 |
Watkins, Christine F. | R | House | 2017 | 27.3 |
Eliason, Steve | R | House | 2017 | 27.3 |
Christensen, LaVar | R | House | 2017 | 28.1 |
Perry, Lee B. | R | House | 2017 | 29.0 |
Chew, Scott H. | R | House | 2017 | 31.3 |
Webb, R. Curt | R | House | 2017 | 32.4 |
Cutler, Bruce R. | R | House | 2017 | 33.2 |
Gardiner, Adam | R | House | 2017 | 33.4 |
Snow, V. Lowry | R | House | 2017 | 33.5 |
Sagers, Douglas | R | House | 2017 | 34.4 |
Ray, Paul | R | House | 2017 | 34.5 |
Last, Bradley G. | R | House | 2017 | 35.0 |
Wilson, Brad R. | R | House | 2017 | 35.3 |
Dunnigan, James A. | R | House | 2017 | 35.4 |
Albrecht, Carl R. | R | House | 2017 | 36.2 |
Nelson, Merrill F. | R | House | 2017 | 36.3 |
Peterson, Jeremy A. | R | House | 2017 | 36.6 |
Hughes, Gregory H. | R | House | 2017 | 37.5 |
Hawkes, Timothy D. | R | House | 2017 | 38.2 |
Westwood, John R. | R | House | 2017 | 40.1 |
Froerer, Gage | R | House | 2017 | 40.2 |
Noel, Michael E. | R | House | 2017 | 41.7 |
Sanpei, Dean | R | House | 2017 | 43.6 |
Barlow, Stewart | R | House | 2017 | 44.6 |
Sandall, Scott D. | R | House | 2017 | 45.5 |
Pulsipher, Susan | R | House | 2017 | 45.7 |
Brooks, Walt | R | House | 2017 | 46.5 |
Grover, Keith | R | House | 2017 | 47.5 |
Schultz, Mike | R | House | 2017 | 49.6 |
Daw, Bradley M. | R | House | 2017 | 50.9 |
Kennedy, Michael S. | R | House | 2017 | 52.5 |
Moss, Jefferson | R | House | 2017 | 52.5 |
Christofferson, Kay J. | R | House | 2017 | 53.2 |
McKell, Mike K. | R | House | 2017 | 54.9 |
Maloy, A. Cory | R | House | 2017 | 56.0 |
Stratton, Keven J. | R | House | 2017 | 58.1 |
Peterson, Val L. | R | House | 2017 | 58.7 |
Stanard, Jon E. | R | House | 2017 | 59.1 |
Wilde, Logan | R | House | 2017 | 59.4 |
Quinn, Tim | R | House | 2017 | 61.3 |
Fawson, Justin L. | R | House | 2017 | 62.0 |
Gibson, Francis D. | R | House | 2017 | 62.1 |
Coleman, Kim | R | House | 2017 | 63.6 |
Thurston, Norman K. | R | House | 2017 | 64.3 |
Knotwell, John | R | House | 2017 | 75.1 |
Lisonbee, Karianne | R | House | 2017 | 76.0 |
Ivory, Ken | R | House | 2017 | 78.7 |
Greene, Brian M. | R | House | 2017 | 85.8 |
Roberts, Marc K. | R | House | 2017 | 88.3 |
McCay, Daniel | R | House | 2017 | 88.5 |