Stephanie Kifowit

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51 roll-call votes on record - 41 yes, 1 no; these state roll calls carry no party-by-party tally. state roll calls
Latest coverage: “House Democrats may need policy change to properly handle complaints” (Chicago Sun-Times, Jul 24, 2026) - one of 3 stories across the spectrum (Left 1 · Center 2 · Right 0). coverage, lean labeled ↗
Serves as State Representative, District 84 (Illinois) since Jan 2013. github.com ↗

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What we don’t cover yet

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The record

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51

Roll-call votes on record.

51 votes · 41 yes · 9 excused · 1 not voting. 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 · Oct 31, 2025

LATEST: YESVEH CD-BICYCLES-EXEMPTIONSSB 2111 · Oct 31, 2025

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Personal finances

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Political placement

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Left–right estimates (academic)

Shor-McCarty · votesCenter-Left

More liberal than 55% of Illinois House members

Details

Score−0.38 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom roll-call votes

Party median0.53 more conservative than the Democratic median in this group (−0.91)

Compared with420 members of Illinois House members (1996–2022)

Covers2013–2022

● This person Democrats (228) Republicans (192)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 72% of 2022 Illinois House candidates

Details

Score−0.74 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom campaign donors

Party medianAt the Democratic median in this group (−0.75)

Compared with215 members of 2022 Illinois House candidates

Covers2008–2022

● This person Democrats (115) Republicans (100)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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