Bill Hitchens

On the November 2026 ballot

Running for State Representative · District 161 · Republican

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541 roll-call votes on record - 484 yes, 14 no; these state roll calls carry no party-by-party tally. state roll calls
Serves as State Representative, District 161 (Georgia) since Jan 2013. legis.ga.gov ↗

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541

Roll-call votes on record.

541 votes · 484 yes · 38 excused · 14 not voting · 5 no. 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 22, 2026

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

Local Government19 votes · yes on 18, no on 0, 1 other

Taxation16 votes · yes on 14, no on 0, 2 other

State Government16 votes · yes on 13, no on 0, 3 other

Public Safety12 votes · yes on 11, no on 0, 1 other

Taxes11 votes · yes on 10, no on 0, 1 other

One vote can touch several topics.

LATEST: YESDublin, City of; ad valorem tax; provide homestead exemptionHB 1EX · Jun 22, 2026

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Political placement

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Shor-McCarty · votesConservative

More conservative than 60% of Georgia House members

Details

Score+0.80 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom roll-call votes

Party median0.14 more liberal than the Republican median in this group (+0.95)

Compared with648 members of Georgia House members (1993–2022)

Covers2013–2022

● This person Democrats (288) Republicans (359)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 ↗

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