Julie Gonzales

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241 roll-call votes on record - 233 yes, 7 no; these state roll calls carry no party-by-party tally. state roll calls
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Serves as State Senator, District 34 (Colorado) since Jan 2019. github.com ↗

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The record

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241

Roll-call votes on record.

241 votes · 233 yes · 7 no · 1 excused. These roll calls don’t record a party-by-party tally, so there’s no party-alignment rate to show - the votes themselves are below. official roll calls · May 12, 2026

Votes by topic: top topics first, the rest behind filters

State Government59 votes · yes on 56, no on 2, 1 other

State Budget48 votes · yes on 48, no on 0

State Revenue & Budget42 votes · yes on 40, no on 2

Fiscal Policy & Taxes29 votes · yes on 28, no on 1

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)23 votes · yes on 23, no on 0

One vote can touch several topics.

LATEST: YESProcedures Related to Civil Asset ForfeitureHB 1250 · May 12, 2026

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Personal finances

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Political placement

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Left–right estimates (academic)

Shor-McCarty · votesVery Liberal

More liberal than 100% of Colorado Senate members

Details

Score−2.38 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom roll-call votes

Party median1.14 more liberal than the Democratic median in this group (−1.24)

Compared with179 members of Colorado Senate members (1996–2022)

Covers2019–2022

● This person Democrats (88) Republicans (90)Thick bar: middle half · thin line: middle 80%

Shor, Boris. 2025. "Individual State Legislator Shor-McCarty Ideology Data, January 2025 Update." Harvard Dataverse, V1. Method: Shor, Boris, and Nolan McCarty. 2011. "The Ideological Mapping of American Legislatures." American Political Science Review 105(3). Shor-McCarty ↗

DIME CFscore · donorsLiberal

More liberal than 81% of 2022 Colorado Senate candidates

Details

Score−0.91 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom campaign donors

Party median0.03 more liberal than the Democratic median in this group (−0.87)

Compared with58 members of 2022 Colorado Senate candidates

Covers2018–2022

● This person Democrats (30) Republicans (28)Thick bar: middle half · thin line: middle 80%

Bonica, Adam. 2024. Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections: Public version 4.0. Stanford University Libraries. https://data.stanford.edu/dime DIME CFscore ↗

About these scores

These are third-party academic estimates of one left–right dimension, computed by researchers from roll-call votes or campaign donors. They are not Poliscope’s judgment. Each source uses its own scale, so compare people within a source rather than across sources.

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