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First session in legislature: | 2019 |
Most recent year of service for which data are available: | 2022 |
Total sessions served in Utah House as of 2022: | 0 |
Total sessions served in Utah Senate as of 2022: | 4 |
I present a variety of statistics about Sen. Derek L. Kitchen'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.
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | ||
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Service summary. Service prior to 2007 (if any) is not shown here. My database goes back only to 2007. | |||||
Chamber | Senate | Senate | Senate | Senate | |
District | S2 | S2 | S2 | S2 | |
Party | D | D | D | D | |
Leadership | CaucusMgr | CaucusMgr | None | None | |
Years in chamber | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
Years comparison | |||||
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | ||
Bills sponsored (learn more) Bills written and promoted by the legislator in his/her own chamber. | |||||
Introduced by Kitchen | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | |
Chamber average | 10 | 9.7 | 9.4 | 9.6 | |
Difference | -8.2 | -6.7 | -4.4 | +0.4 | |
Comparison | == | ||||
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | ||
Bill passage rate (learn more). What percent of Sen. Kitchen's sponsored bills pass and are officially "enrolled"? (I ignore whether the governor signed or vetoted the bill.) | |||||
Bills introduced | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | |
Bills passed | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Passage rate | 50% | 33% | 0.0% | 10% | |
Chamber average | 78% | 70% | 71% | 71% | |
Difference | -28.4 | -37.5 | -70.7 | -60.9 | |
Comparison | |||||
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | ||
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 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |
Chamber average | 14 | 13 | 12 | 13 | |
Difference | -12.6 | -12.3 | -9.4 | -10.4 | |
Comparison | |||||
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | ||
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 | 60 | 38 | 16 | 27 | |
Total votes held | 975 | 910 | 919 | 931 | |
Absentee rate | 6.2% | 4.2% | 1.7% | 2.9% | |
Chamber average | 11% | 11% | 8.0% | 12% | |
Difference | -5.0 | -7.3 | -6.3 | -9.3 | |
Comparison | |||||
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | ||
"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 | 52 | 41 | 66 | 63 | |
Total votes held | 975 | 910 | 919 | 931 | |
"Nay" rate | 5.3% | 4.5% | 7.2% | 6.8% | |
Chamber average | 2.7% | 2.5% | 4.0% | 2.6% | |
Difference | +2.6 | +2.0 | +3.2 | +4.2 | |
Comparison | |||||
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | ||
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 | 38% | 59% | 47% | 49% | |
Chamber average | 70% | 71% | 70% | 71% | |
Difference | -32.7 | -12.4 | -22.7 | -21.7 | |
Comparison | |||||
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | ||
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. | |||||
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | ||
Party support score (overall) (learn more). How consistently does Sen. Kitchen 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) | 99% | 98% | 98% | 97% | |
Chamber average | 98% | 98% | 97% | 98% | |
Difference | +0.7 | -0.4 | +0.8 | -0.7 | |
Comparison | == | ||||
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | ||
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) | 96% | 82% | 94% | 100% | |
Chamber average | 92% | 91% | 88% | 92% | |
Difference | +3.7 | -8.5 | +5.5 | +8.2 | |
Comparison |
Only 6 bills sponsored by Sen. Kitchen have come to a vote. Listed below are all votes held on bills that Sen. Kitchen sponsored. The votes are sorted by vote margin, with the most divisive votes listed first.
Year | Sponsor | Bill | Ayes | Nays | Margin (as % of total votes) |
Type of vote |
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2021 | Kitchen | SB0128S01 | 18 | 9 | 33% | Senate/ passed 3rd reading |
2020 | Kitchen | SB0074 | 19 | 6 | 52% | Senate/ passed 2nd reading |
2020 | Kitchen | SB0077S05 | 18 | 5 | 57% | Senate/ passed 2nd reading |
2020 | Kitchen | SB0077S05 | 23 | 3 | 77% | Senate/ passed 3rd reading |
2020 | Kitchen | SB0122S02 | 24 | 2 | 85% | Senate/ passed 2nd reading |
2020 | Kitchen | SB0074 | 23 | 1 | 92% | Senate/ passed 3rd reading |
2019 | Kitchen | SJR005 | 70 | 3 | 92% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
2022 | Kitchen | SJR010S01 | 71 | 0 | 100% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
2022 | Kitchen | SJR010S01 | 23 | 0 | 100% | Senate/ passed 3rd reading |
2022 | Kitchen | SJR010S01 | 23 | 0 | 100% | Senate/ passed 2nd reading |