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White fade Analyzing The Utah Legislature: Roll Call Partisanship 2008 — Senate

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

The final installment of this series for now is the 2008 Senate partisan ratings. Background was explained in this post.

The legislators on the 50 partisan votes of 2008 Utah Senate,

Representative Party D Votes R Votes Missed Votes Democratic Rating
Romero D 46 4 0 92.00%
Davis D 44 4 2 90.00%
Mayne D 43 6 1 87.00%
McCoy D 41 7 2 84.00%
Fife D 40 10 0 80.00%
Dmitrich D 37 9 4 78.00%
Jones D 39 11 0 78.00%
Goodfellow D 33 15 2 68.00%
Greiner R 19 29 2 40.00%
Hillyard R 12 28 10 34.00%
Van Tassell R 11 33 6 28.00%
Knudson R 10 38 2 22.00%
Christensen R 9 38 3 21.00%
Buttars R 3 33 14 20.00%
Bell R 9 40 1 19.00%
Hickman R 4 35 11 19.00%
Stowell R 7 41 2 16.00%
Valentine R 5 40 5 15.00%
Dayton R 6 42 2 14.00%
Jenkins R 6 42 2 14.00%
Waddoups R 7 43 0 14.00%
Killpack R 3 40 7 13.00%
Madsen R 6 44 0 12.00%
Stephenson R 6 44 0 12.00%
Bramble R 2 42 6 10.00%
Walker R 4 44 2 10.00%
Niederhauser R 4 46 0 8.00%
Peterson R 3 45 2 8.00%
Eastman R 1 47 2 4.00%

White fade Deseret News Stories On Legislator Ratings

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

The Deseret News runs famously flawed ratings of the legislature judging members on the number of sponsored bills passed. This year there was appropriate critical content and a nice survey of absences from committee votes.

Links:

Both of these are good stories and worth your time despite flaws.

White fade Analyzing The Utah Legislature: Roll Call Partisanship 2008 — House

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

It’s finally here. The 2008 Utah legislature partisan voting survey. Background information at this post. The last two weeks have seen data back to 2005 posted on Brian’s Utah Weblog.

Congratulations are due to Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck (D-SLC) for establishing the highest Democratic rating in her very first session as a representative.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen my own Representative Jackie Biskupski (D-SLC) so far down one of these lists before.  Soon I’ll be posting on the votes that make up these ratings so we can drill a little deeper into what happened.

The legislators on the 60 partisan votes of 2008 Utah House,

Representative Party D Votes R Votes Missed Votes Democratic Rating
Chavez-Houck D 58 2 0 96.67%
Johnson D 55 1 4 95.00%
Wiley D 56 3 1 94.17%
Litvack D 56 3 1 94.17%
McGee D 54 6 0 90.00%
Seelig D 52 6 2 88.33%
Biskupski D 51 6 3 87.50%
Moss D 46 7 7 82.50%
Hemingway D 49 11 0 81.67%
Riesen D 47 10 3 80.83%
Wheatley D 46 10 4 80.00%
Shurtliff D 46 11 3 79.17%
Fisher, Janice D 45 12 3 77.50%
King D 44 14 2 75.00%
Cosgrove D 43 16 1 72.50%
Hansen D 42 15 3 72.50%
Hendrickson D 38 15 7 69.17%
Morgan D 37 22 1 62.50%
Duckworth D 30 17 13 60.83%
Gowans D 33 22 5 59.17%
Holdaway R 31 26 3 54.17%
Menlove R 27 32 1 45.83%
Bowman R 10 16 34 45.00%
McIff R 24 32 4 43.33%
Allen R 24 33 3 42.50%
Mascaro R 23 33 4 41.67%
Brown R 20 33 7 39.17%
Bird R 21 37 2 36.67%
Hunsaker R 20 37 3 35.83%
Dunnigan R 20 37 3 35.83%
Ferry R 20 40 0 33.33%
Neuenschwander R 19 39 2 33.33%
Fowlke R 18 40 2 31.67%
Snow R 14 44 2 25.00%
Gibson R 8 41 11 22.50%
Bigelow R 11 45 4 21.67%
Curtis R 7 41 12 21.67%
Draxler R 11 46 3 20.83%
Hutchings R 10 46 4 20.00%
Winn R 7 43 10 20.00%
Walker R 6 43 11 19.17%
Greenwood R 11 48 1 19.17%
Fisher, Julie R 11 49 0 18.33%
Urquhart R 5 43 12 18.33%
Clark, S. R 10 48 2 18.33%
Froerer R 10 49 1 17.50%
Clark, D. R 7 47 6 16.67%
Webb R 10 50 0 16.67%
Barrus R 9 49 2 16.67%
Kiser R 9 50 1 15.83%
Dee R 7 49 4 15.00%
Harper R 9 51 0 15.00%
Aagard R 9 51 0 15.00%
Ray R 7 49 4 15.00%
Morley R 5 48 7 14.17%
Painter R 3 46 11 14.17%
Newbold R 4 47 9 14.17%
Mathis R 7 50 3 14.17%
Wimmer R 6 50 4 13.33%
Dougall R 7 51 2 13.33%
Sandstrom R 6 52 2 11.67%
Last R 5 52 3 10.83%
Lockhart R 4 52 4 10.00%
Oda R 5 55 0 8.33%
Tilton R 4 55 1 7.50%
Garn R 3 54 3 7.50%
Hughes R 2 53 5 7.50%
Grover R 4 55 1 7.50%
Donnelson R 4 55 1 7.50%
Sumsion R 3 55 2 6.67%
Noel R 2 56 2 5.00%
Herrod R 3 57 0 5.00%
Andersen R 2 57 1 4.17%
Daw R 2 57 1 4.17%
Frank R 1 58 1 2.50%