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| First session in legislature: | 2022 |
| Most recent year of service for which data are available: | 2026 |
| Total sessions served in Utah House as of 2026: | 5 |
| Total sessions served in Utah Senate as of 2026: | 0 |
I present a variety of statistics about Rep. Stephen Whyte'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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Three arrows mean that the legislator is significantly different from average (i.e. at least two standard deviations from the mean, placing the legislator in the top/bottom 2% or so)./ Two arrows mean that the legislator is somewhat different from average (i.e. at least one standard deviation from the mean, placing the legislator in the top/bottom 16% or so)./ One arrow indicates that the legislator is only slightly different from average (i.e. one-third standard deviation from the mean). A single arrow indicates a very small difference; don't make too much of it.| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | ||
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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 | |
| District | H65 | H63 | H63 | H63 | H63 | |
| Party | R | R | R | R | R | |
| Leadership | None | None | None | None | None | |
| Years in chamber | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | ||
| Bills sponsored (learn more) Bills written and promoted by the legislator in his/her own chamber. | ||||||
| Introduced by Whyte | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | |
| Chamber average | 7.1 | 8.1 | 8.5 | 8.0 | 9.2 | |
| Difference | -6.1 | -6.1 | -5.5 | -2.0 | -5.2 | |
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| Bill passage rate (learn more). What percent of Rep. Whyte's sponsored bills pass and are officially "enrolled"? (I ignore whether the governor signed or vetoted the bill.) | ||||||
| Bills introduced | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | |
| Bills passed | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | |
| Passage rate | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | |
| Chamber average | 58% | 56% | 56% | 59% | 53% | |
| Difference | +42 | +44 | +44 | +41 | +47 | |
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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 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | |
| Chamber average | 3.0 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 4.6 | 4.5 | |
| Difference | +0.0 | +0.5 | -1.3 | -0.6 | -2.5 | |
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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 | 1 | 21 | 8 | 11 | 20 | |
| Total votes held | 711 | 803 | 845 | 850 | 827 | |
| Absentee rate | 0.1% | 2.6% | 0.9% | 1.3% | 2.4% | |
| Chamber average | 5.7% | 6.4% | 6.8% | 7.1% | 9.3% | |
| Difference | -5.6 | -3.8 | -5.9 | -5.8 | -6.9 | |
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | ||
| "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 | 39 | 31 | 30 | 30 | 30 | |
| Total votes held | 711 | 803 | 845 | 850 | 827 | |
| "Nay" rate | 5.5% | 3.9% | 3.6% | 3.5% | 3.6% | |
| Chamber average | 6.5% | 7.1% | 5.7% | 6.2% | 7.6% | |
| Difference | -1.0 | -3.2 | -2.1 | -2.7 | -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 | 81% | 90% | 82% | 83% | 90% | |
| Chamber average | 67% | 69% | 68% | 69% | 72% | |
| Difference | +14 | +20 | +14 | +14 | +18 | |
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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. Whyte 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% | 98% | 98% | 97% | 98% | |
| Chamber average | 95% | 96% | 96% | 96% | 95% | |
| Difference | +1.6 | +2.5 | +1.9 | +1.6 | +2.4 | |
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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) | 82% | 90% | 89% | 87% | 88% | |
| Chamber average | 84% | 88% | 87% | 88% | 87% | |
| Difference | -2.3 | +2.7 | +1.4 | -0.5 | +0.4 | |
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Only 16 bills sponsored by Rep. Whyte have come to a vote. Listed below are all votes held on bills that Rep. Whyte 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) |
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| 2026 | Whyte | HCR006S01 | 41 | 26 | 22% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2025 | Whyte | HB0207S03 | 16 | 10 | 23% | Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension |
| 2025 | Whyte | HB0368S03 | 47 | 22 | 36% | House/ concurs with Senate amendment |
| 2025 | Whyte | HB0360S02 | 48 | 21 | 39% | House/ concurs with Senate amendment |
| 2025 | Whyte | HB0360S02 | 51 | 16 | 52% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2023 | Whyte | HB0406S05 | 53 | 16 | 54% | House/ concurs with Senate amendment |
| 2024 | Whyte | HB0476S01 | 20 | 5 | 60% | Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension |
| 2025 | Whyte | HB0368S03 | 53 | 13 | 61% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2025 | Whyte | HCR014 | 24 | 5 | 66% | Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension |
| 2023 | Whyte | HB0406S05 | 56 | 11 | 67% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
