Mike Thompson

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952 roll-call votes on record - 912 yes, 32 no; these state roll calls carry no party-by-party tally. state roll calls
Latest coverage: “North Bay congressional race highlights generational clash” (KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco, Oct 28, 2026) - one of 19 stories across the spectrum (Left 1 · Center 16 · Right 2). coverage, lean labeled ↗
Serves as State Senator, District 48 (Mississippi) since Jan 2020. github.com ↗

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The record

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952

Roll-call votes on record.

952 votes · 912 yes · 32 not voting · 7 no · 1 present. 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 · Apr 15, 2026

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

State Government66 votes · yes on 66, no on 0

State Budget57 votes · yes on 56, no on 0, 1 other

Higher Education36 votes · yes on 35, no on 0, 1 other

Appointments31 votes · yes on 31, no on 0

State Budgets21 votes · yes on 20, no on 0, 1 other

One vote can touch several topics.

LATEST: YESSuspend deadlines for the further consideration of HB 938; extend repealers on several youth court statutes.HC 65 · Apr 15, 2026

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Personal finances

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Political placement

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Left–right estimates (academic)

Shor-McCarty · votesConservative

More conservative than 69% of Mississippi Senate members

Details

Score+0.96 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom roll-call votes

Party median0.01 more conservative than the Republican median in this group (+0.96)

Compared with141 members of Mississippi Senate members (1996–2022)

Covers2020–2022

● This person Democrats (51) 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 · donorsVery Conservative

More conservative than 82% of 2022 Mississippi Senate candidates

Details

Score+1.20 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom campaign donors

Party median0.07 more conservative than the Republican median in this group (+1.13)

Compared with50 members of 2022 Mississippi Senate candidates

Covers2020–2022

● This person Democrats (13) Republicans (31) Independents (6)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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