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Representative Ashlee Matthews
Utah legislator profile

Years served in the Utah legislature

First session in legislature: 2021
Most recent year of service for which data are available: 2024
Total sessions served in Utah House as of 2024: 4
Total sessions served in Utah Senate as of 2024: 0

How to read the statistical profile

I present a variety of statistics about Rep. Ashlee Matthews'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.

Rep. Matthews's statistical profile

2021202220232024
Service summary. Service prior to 2007 (if any) is not shown here. My database goes back only to 2007.
  Chamber HouseHouseHouseHouse
  District H38H38H37H37
  Party DDDD
Leadership NoneNoneNoneNone
Years in chamber 1234
Years comparison LowerLowerLowerLower
 
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Bills sponsored (learn more) Bills written and promoted by the legislator in his/her own chamber.
Introduced by Matthews 4575
Chamber average 6.67.18.18.5
Difference -2.6-2.1-1.1-3.5
Comparison LowerLower==Lower
 
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Bill passage rate (learn more). What percent of Rep. Matthews's sponsored bills pass and are officially "enrolled"? (I ignore whether the governor signed or vetoted the bill.)
Bills introduced 4575
Bills passed 2154
Passage rate 50%20%71%80%
Chamber average 60%58%56%56%
Difference -9.8-38.2+15+24
Comparison LowerLowerLowerHigherHigher
 
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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 0010
Chamber average 3.13.03.53.3
Difference -3.1-3.0-2.5-3.3
Comparison LowerLowerLowerLower
 
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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 2183565
Total votes held 666711803845
Absentee rate 3.2%1.1%4.4%7.7%
Chamber average 6.1%5.7%6.4%6.8%
Difference -2.9-4.6-2.0+0.9
Comparison ==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 51428061
Total votes held 666711803845
"Nay" rate 7.7%5.9%10%7.2%
Chamber average 7.7%6.5%7.1%5.7%
Difference +0.0-0.6+2.9+1.5
Comparison ====HigherHigher
 
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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 46%59%44%46%
Chamber average 66%67%69%68%
Difference -19.7-7.9-25.2-21.9
Comparison LowerLowerLowerLowerLowerLowerLower
 
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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 Rep. Matthews 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) 96%95%96%96%
Chamber average 94%95%96%96%
Difference +2.8-0.1+0.5-0.2
Comparison ========
 
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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) 77%69%79%74%
Chamber average 85%84%88%87%
Difference -7.7-15.4-8.4-13.6
Comparison LowerLowerLowerLowerLowerLowerLower

Votes on Rep. Matthews's bills

Only 13 bills sponsored by Rep. Matthews have come to a vote. Listed below are all votes held on bills that Rep. Matthews 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
2024 Matthews HB0461S02 57 15 58% House/ passed 3rd reading
2021 Matthews HB0224S02 65 5 86% House/ passed 3rd reading
2021 Matthews HB0224S02 27 2 86% Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
2024 Matthews HB0461S02 25 1 92% Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
2023 Matthews HB0415S01 25 1 92% Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
2023 Matthews HB0327 65 2 94% House/ passed 3rd reading
2023 Matthews HB0167S01 69 1 97% House/ passed 3rd reading
2024 Matthews HB0418 67 0 100% House/ concurs with Senate amendment
2024 Matthews HB0418 26 0 100% Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
2024 Matthews HB0418 69 0 100% House/ passed 3rd reading