Art Bell

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744 roll-call votes on record - 604 yes, 90 no; these state roll calls carry no party-by-party tally. state roll calls
Latest coverage: “Florida Board of Governors confirms Stuart Bell as UF’s 14th president” (The Apopka Chief, Jul 1, 2026). coverage, lean labeled ↗
Serves as State Representative, District 103 (Maine) since Dec 2022. github.com ↗

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The record

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744

Roll-call votes on record.

744 votes · 604 yes · 90 no · 50 absent. 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 · Apr 29, 2026

LATEST: YESAn Act to Establish the Maine Data Center Coordination Council and Place a Temporary Limitation on Certain Data CentersLD 307 · Apr 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 99% of Maine House members

Details

Score−1.58 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom roll-call votes

Party median0.59 more liberal than the Democratic median in this group (−0.99)

Compared with819 members of Maine House members (1996–2022)

Covers2021–2022

● This person Democrats (441) Republicans (361) Other parties (17)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 69% of 2022 Maine House candidates

Details

Score−0.90 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom campaign donors

Party median0.07 more conservative than the Democratic median in this group (−0.96)

Compared with285 members of 2022 Maine House candidates

Covers2020–2022

● This person Democrats (126) Republicans (145) Independents (14)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 ↗

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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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