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Votes with the Democratic majority 87% of the time; Gillen’s 10 recent breaks lean one way - voting yes where most Democrats voted no. official roll calls
Advocacy groups split on the record - International Association of Fire Fighters scores it 277.78, Associated Builders & Contractors (ABC) 0 (6 published scorecards). published scorecards
Sponsored 1 bill on record; most recently 8410 “Safe Tracks Act” (Apr 21, 2026). bill records
What we don’t cover yet 2 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.
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The record
official roll calls · every vote links to the bill
87%
Votes with the Democratic majority.
Where both parties recorded a position on the same roll call, Gillen’s vote matched the Democratic position 87% of the time. That makes the 10 recent breaks the clearest signal of where Gillen actually stands - they’re first, below. official roll calls · Sep 16, 2026
458 votes · 301 yes · 157 no
Where Gillen broke from the party - the high-signal votes
6 ratings from advocacy groups, across 9 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.
third-party academic estimates - never our verdict
Left–right estimates (academic)
DW-NOMINATE · votesCenter-Left
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More liberal than 52% of the U.S. House
Details
Score−0.17 on a −1.0 to +1.0 scale
BasisFrom roll-call votes
Party median0.23 more conservative than the Democratic median in this group (−0.40)
Compared with450 members of U.S. House · 119th Congress
Covers119th Congress
● This person Democrats (222) Republicans (227)Thick bar: middle half · thin line: middle 80%
Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet. Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. DW-NOMINATE ↗
DIME CFscore · donorsLiberal
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More liberal than 66% of 2024 U.S. House candidates in New York
Details
Score−0.75 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale
BasisFrom campaign donors
Party median0.10 more conservative than the Democratic median in this group (−0.84)
Compared with125 members of 2024 U.S. House candidates in New York
Covers2022–2024
● This person Democrats (77) Republicans (47)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.
