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444 roll-call votes on record - 260 yes, 132 no; these state roll calls carry no party-by-party tally. state roll calls
Latest coverage: “Smart Home Technology is Becoming a Tool for Preventing Property Damage” (Post News Group (Oakland Post), Jul 23, 2026). coverage, lean labeled ↗
Serves as State Senator, District 17 (North Carolina) since Jan 2021. ncleg.gov ↗

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The record

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444

Roll-call votes on record.

444 votes · 260 yes · 132 no · 52 absent. 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 · Jul 29, 2026

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

Local Government6 votes · yes on 6, no on 0

Education4 votes · yes on 4, no on 0

AGRICULTURE4 votes · yes on 4, no on 0

COMMERCE3 votes · yes on 3, no on 0

Colleges & Universities3 votes · yes on 3, no on 0

One vote can touch several topics.

LATEST: ABSENTRegulatory Reform Act of 2026.SB 445 · Jul 29, 2026

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Personal finances

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Political placement

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Left–right estimates (academic)

Shor-McCarty · votesLiberal

More liberal than 92% of North Carolina Senate members

Details

Score−0.86 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom roll-call votes

Party median0.17 more liberal than the Democratic median in this group (−0.69)

Compared with207 members of North Carolina Senate members (1995–2022)

Covers2019–2022

● This person Democrats (106) Republicans (101)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 92% of 2022 North Carolina Senate candidates

Details

Score−0.89 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom campaign donors

Party median0.09 more liberal than the Democratic median in this group (−0.80)

Compared with105 members of 2022 North Carolina Senate candidates

Covers2018–2022

● This person Democrats (41) Republicans (59) Independents (5)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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