Joe McDonald

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160 roll-call votes on record - 143 yes, 17 no; these state roll calls carry no party-by-party tally. state roll calls
Latest coverage: “Remembering Terry Messman, founding editor of Street Spirit homeless newspaper” (Berkeleyside, Jul 15, 2026). coverage, lean labeled ↗
Serves as State Representative, District 29A (Minnesota) since Jan 2013. github.com ↗

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The record

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160

Roll-call votes on record.

160 votes · 143 yes · 17 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 · May 17, 2026

LATEST: YESBonding bill; spending authorized to acquire and better land and buildings and for other improvements of a capital nature, new programs established and existing programs modified, report required, prior appropriations modified and canceled, and money appropriated.HF 2484 · May 17, 2026

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Personal finances

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Political placement

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Left–right estimates (academic)

Shor-McCarty · votesVery Conservative

More conservative than 94% of Minnesota House members

Details

Score+1.25 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom roll-call votes

Party median0.30 more conservative than the Republican median in this group (+0.94)

Compared with523 members of Minnesota House members (1995–2022)

Covers2011–2022

● This person Democrats (262) Republicans (259)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 · donorsVery Conservative

More conservative than 61% of 2022 Minnesota House candidates

Details

Score+1.09 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom campaign donors

Party median0.15 more liberal than the Republican median in this group (+1.24)

Compared with266 members of 2022 Minnesota House candidates

Covers2010–2022

● This person Democrats (139) Republicans (126)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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