Barbara Kirkmeyer

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257 roll-call votes on record - 187 yes, 66 no; these state roll calls carry no party-by-party tally. state roll calls
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Serves as State Senator, District 23 (Colorado) since Jan 2021. github.com ↗

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The record

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257

Roll-call votes on record.

257 votes · 187 yes · 66 no · 4 excused. 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 13, 2026

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

State Government61 votes · yes on 49, no on 10, 2 other

State Revenue & Budget48 votes · yes on 44, no on 3, 1 other

State Budget47 votes · yes on 39, no on 8

Health Care & Health Insurance24 votes · yes on 22, no on 2

Fiscal Policy & Taxes23 votes · yes on 15, no on 8

One vote can touch several topics.

LATEST: YESColorado Artist CompaniesSB 133 · May 13, 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 88% of Colorado Senate members

Details

Score+1.43 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom roll-call votes

Party median0.43 more conservative than the Republican median in this group (+1.00)

Compared with179 members of Colorado Senate members (1996–2022)

Covers2021–2022

● This person Democrats (88) Republicans (90)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 66% of 2022 U.S. House candidates in Colorado

Details

Score+1.19 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom campaign donors

Party median0.18 more liberal than the Republican median in this group (+1.37)

Compared with56 members of 2022 U.S. House candidates in Colorado

Covers2000–2022

● This person Democrats (30) Republicans (22)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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