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First session in legislature: | 2013 |
Most recent year of service for which data are available: | 2018 |
Total sessions served in Utah House as of 2018: | 6 |
Total sessions served in Utah Senate as of 2018: | 0 |
I present a variety of statistics about Rep. Jon E. Stanard'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.
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Service summary. Service prior to 2007 (if any) is not shown here. My database goes back only to 2007. | |||||||
Chamber | House | House | House | House | House | House | |
District | H62 | H62 | H62 | H62 | H62 | H62 | |
Party | R | R | R | R | R | R | |
Leadership | None | None | None | None | None | None | |
Years in chamber | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
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Bills sponsored (learn more) Bills written and promoted by the legislator in his/her own chamber. | |||||||
Introduced by Stanard | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
Chamber average | 5.8 | 6.4 | 6.7 | 7.0 | 6.7 | 7.1 | |
Difference | -1.8 | -3.4 | -3.7 | -2.0 | -6.7 | -7.1 | |
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Bill passage rate (learn more). What percent of Rep. Stanard's sponsored bills pass and are officially "enrolled"? (I ignore whether the governor signed or vetoted the bill.) | |||||||
Bills introduced | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
Bills passed | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
Passage rate | 50% | 67% | 67% | 80% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
Chamber average | 66% | 52% | 63% | 54% | 61% | 53% | |
Difference | -15.8 | +15 | +4.0 | +26 | -61.4 | -53.4 | |
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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 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | |
Chamber average | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 3.4 | |
Difference | -3.5 | -3.5 | +0.2 | -0.3 | -1.6 | -3.4 | |
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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 | 26 | 125 | 37 | 64 | 35 | 4 | |
Total votes held | 658 | 664 | 699 | 657 | 727 | 119 | |
Absentee rate | 4.0% | 19% | 5.3% | 9.7% | 4.8% | 3.4% | |
Chamber average | 5.9% | 6.2% | 6.3% | 6.4% | 5.2% | 8.0% | |
Difference | -1.9 | +13 | -1.0 | +3.3 | -0.4 | -4.6 | |
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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 | 44 | 36 | 64 | 43 | 40 | 3 | |
Total votes held | 658 | 664 | 699 | 657 | 727 | 119 | |
"Nay" rate | 6.7% | 5.4% | 9.2% | 6.5% | 5.5% | 2.5% | |
Chamber average | 7.3% | 7.5% | 8.6% | 7.3% | 7.1% | 6.5% | |
Difference | -0.6 | -2.1 | +0.6 | -0.8 | -1.6 | -4.0 | |
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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 | 64% | 68% | 62% | 65% | 66% | 67% | |
Chamber average | 67% | 67% | 67% | 66% | 67% | 66% | |
Difference | -2.1 | +1.2 | -5.7 | -1.7 | -1.1 | +0.4 | |
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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. Stanard 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% | 94% | 95% | 95% | 99% | |
Chamber average | 95% | 94% | 94% | 95% | 95% | 94% | |
Difference | +1.3 | +1.3 | +0.1 | 0.0 | +0.3 | +5.3 | |
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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) | 90% | 90% | 94% | 95% | 94% | 100% | |
Chamber average | 81% | 80% | 82% | 85% | 87% | 83% | |
Difference | +8.3 | +9.9 | +12 | +10.0 | +7.2 | +17 | |
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Only 12 bills sponsored by Rep. Stanard have come to a vote. Listed below are all votes held on bills that Rep. Stanard 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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2014 | Stanard | HB0192 | 52 | 16 | 53% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
2014 | Stanard | HB0192 | 23 | 5 | 64% | Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension |
2015 | Stanard | HB0335S01 | 60 | 5 | 85% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
2016 | Stanard | HB0301S01 | 63 | 3 | 91% | House/ concurs with Senate amendment |
2016 | Stanard | HB0301S01 | 66 | 3 | 91% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
2013 | Stanard | HB0101S01 | 66 | 3 | 91% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
2013 | Stanard | HB0101S01 | 69 | 3 | 92% | House/ concurs with Senate amendment |
2016 | Stanard | HB0177S01 | 25 | 1 | 92% | Senate/ passed 3rd reading |
2013 | Stanard | HB0117 | 68 | 1 | 97% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
2016 | Stanard | HB0301S01 | 24 | 0 | 100% | Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension |