Kay Kirkpatrick

On the November 2026 ballot

Running for State Senator · District 32 · Republican

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805 roll-call votes on record - 713 yes, 52 no; these state roll calls carry no party-by-party tally. state roll calls
Latest coverage: “‘We could have had him longer’: Georgia mother says insurance approvals cost her time with dying son” (WCTV (CBS Tallahassee), Jul 8, 2026). coverage, lean labeled ↗
Serves as State Senator, District 32 (Georgia) since Jun 2017. legis.ga.gov ↗

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The record

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805

Roll-call votes on record.

805 votes · 713 yes · 52 no · 30 excused · 10 not voting. 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 · Jun 23, 2026

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

State Government26 votes · yes on 21, no on 4, 1 other

Local Government25 votes · yes on 23, no on 1, 1 other

Taxes21 votes · yes on 20, no on 1

State Budget17 votes · yes on 16, no on 1

Taxation15 votes · yes on 11, no on 2, 2 other

One vote can touch several topics.

LATEST: YESCity of Toccoa; ad valorem taxes; homestead property determined annually for the special district based upon the proceeds of a new Local Homestead Option Sales Tax (LHOST); provide homestead exemptionSB 5EX · Jun 23, 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 75% of Georgia Senate members

Details

Score+0.88 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom roll-call votes

Party median0.03 more conservative than the Republican median in this group (+0.85)

Compared with213 members of Georgia Senate members (1993–2022)

Covers2018–2022

● This person Democrats (87) Republicans (126)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 ↗

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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