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Votes with the Democratic majority 95% of the time; Jones’s 5 recent breaks lean one way - voting yes where most Democrats voted no. official roll calls
Advocacy groups split on the record - Americans for Prosperity - Florida scores it 80, Florida Chamber of Commerce 66% (2 published scorecards). published scorecards
Sponsored 43 bills and co-sponsored 18 on record; most recently SB 418 “Law Enforcement Officer Interactions with Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder” (Jun 17, 2026). bill records
What we don’t cover yet 1 gaps
What we don’t cover yet
Campaign finance filings for this office aren’t wired in yet - when they’re sourced, they’ll appear here.
The record
official roll calls · every vote links to the bill
95%
Votes with the Democratic majority.
Where both parties recorded a position on the same roll call, Jones’s vote matched the Democratic position 95% of the time. That makes the 5 recent breaks the clearest signal of where Jones actually stands - they’re first, below. official roll calls · Jun 2, 2026
1,576 votes · 1,273 yes · 123 no · 93 absent · 81 excused · 4 other · 2 not voting
Where Jones broke from the party - the high-signal votes
VOTED YES
Taxation
Democrats voted no, 4–5; Jones was one of the 4 in favor · HB 7031E · May 29, 2026
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VOTED YES
Data Centers
Democrats voted no, 3–6; Jones was one of the 3 in favor · SB 484 · Mar 13, 2026
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VOTED YES
Utility Services
Democrats voted no, 3–5; Jones was one of the 3 in favor · HB 1451 · Mar 13, 2026
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Pattern: the breaks lean one way - voting yes where most Democrats voted no.
Votes by topic: top topics first, the rest behind filters
Transportation17 votes · yes on 17, no on 0
State Government17 votes · yes on 17, no on 0
conference committee16 votes · yes on 16, no on 0
state budget12 votes · yes on 12, no on 0
Infrastructure11 votes · yes on 10, no on 1
One vote can touch several topics.
LATEST: EXCUSEDSave our Homes from Excessive Property TaxesSJR 2F · Jun 2, 2026CommitteesVice Chair · RulesAppropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 EducationCommunity AffairsEducation Postsecondary
2 ratings from advocacy groups, across 2 issue areas. Scores are shown on a shared 0–100 scale so groups can be read side by side, with each group’s own published score kept next to it. Every score is the group’s opinion, never our verdict, and every row links to the scorecard.
Taxes & Economy · 1
Americans for Prosperity - Floridaconservative · 2025
third-party academic estimates - never our verdict
Left–right estimates (academic)
Shor-McCarty · votesVery Liberal
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More liberal than 77% of Florida Senate members
Details
Score−1.06 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale
BasisFrom roll-call votes
Party median0.06 more conservative than the Democratic median in this group (−1.12)
Compared with173 members of Florida Senate members (1996–2022)
Covers2013–2022
● This person Democrats (69) Republicans (104)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.
