Doug Smith

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30 roll-call votes on record - 23 yes, 7 no; these state roll calls carry no party-by-party tally. state roll calls
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Serves as State Assemblymember, District 5 (New York) since Apr 2018. legislation.nysenate.gov ↗

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The record

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30

Roll-call votes on record.

30 votes · 23 yes · 7 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 · Jun 5, 2026

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

Consumer Protection8 votes · yes on 5, no on 3

Environment4 votes · yes on 2, no on 2

Energy4 votes · yes on 2, no on 2

Housing4 votes · yes on 2, no on 2

State Government4 votes · yes on 4, no on 0

One vote can touch several topics.

LATEST: NOProhibits the use of surveillance pricingA 9349 · Jun 5, 2026

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Personal finances

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Political placement

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Left–right estimates (academic)

Shor-McCarty · votesCentrist

More conservative than 77% of New York Assembly members

Details

Score−0.05 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom roll-call votes

Party median0.07 more liberal than the Republican median in this group (+0.02)

Compared with475 members of New York Assembly members (1994–2022)

Covers2018–2022

● This person Democrats (298) Republicans (176)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 · donorsConservative

More conservative than 72% of 2022 New York Assembly candidates

Details

Score+0.62 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom campaign donors

Party median0.35 more liberal than the Republican median in this group (+0.97)

Compared with286 members of 2022 New York Assembly candidates

Covers2018–2022

● This person Democrats (179) Republicans (96) Independents (11)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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