Rod Pelton

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89 roll-call votes on record - 52 yes, 34 no; these state roll calls carry no party-by-party tally. state roll calls
Serves as State Senator, District 35 (Colorado) since Jan 2023. github.com ↗

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89

Roll-call votes on record.

89 votes · 52 yes · 34 no · 3 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 11, 2026

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

State Government27 votes · yes on 15, no on 11, 1 other

Agriculture16 votes · yes on 8, no on 7, 1 other

Natural Resources & Environment9 votes · yes on 6, no on 2, 1 other

Elections & Redistricting8 votes · yes on 6, no on 2

Transportation & Motor Vehicles8 votes · yes on 5, no on 3

One vote can touch several topics.

LATEST: YESCompetency for Occupational Licensure PortabilityHB 1431 · May 11, 2026

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Political placement

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Left–right estimates (academic)

Shor-McCarty · votesVery Conservative

More conservative than 87% of Colorado House members

Details

Score+1.42 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom roll-call votes

Party median0.30 more conservative than the Republican median in this group (+1.11)

Compared with370 members of Colorado House members (1996–2022)

Covers2019–2022

● This person Democrats (180) Republicans (188)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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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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