Louise Lucas

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4,343 roll-call votes on record - 4,167 yes, 93 no; these state roll calls carry no party-by-party tally. state roll calls
Latest coverage: “2 ex-FBI officials charged with lying about involvement in investigation into Hunter Biden's laptop” (WPLG Local 10 – Politics, Oct 24, 2026) - one of 23 stories across the spectrum (Left 6 · Center 9 · Right 8). coverage, lean labeled ↗
Serves as State Senator, District 18 (Virginia) since Jan 1992. house.vga.virginia.gov ↗

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The record

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4,343

Roll-call votes on record.

4,343 votes · 4,167 yes · 93 no · 83 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 · Jun 29, 2026

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

Judiciary2 votes · yes on 2, no on 0

Courts2 votes · yes on 2, no on 0

Elections2 votes · yes on 2, no on 0

One vote can touch several topics.

LATEST: YESBudget Bill.HB 30 · Jun 29, 2026

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Personal finances

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Political placement

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Left–right estimates (academic)

Shor-McCarty · votesVery Liberal

More liberal than 88% of Virginia Senate members

Details

Score−1.22 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom roll-call votes

Party median0.27 more liberal than the Democratic median in this group (−0.95)

Compared with102 members of Virginia Senate members (1996–2022)

Covers1996–2022

● This person Democrats (48) Republicans (54)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 90% of 2022 Virginia Senate candidates

Details

Score−0.83 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom campaign donors

Party median0.04 more liberal than the Democratic median in this group (−0.79)

Compared with39 members of 2022 Virginia Senate candidates

Covers2000–2022

● This person Democrats (21) Republicans (18)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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