Steve West

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2 personal financial disclosures on file (Form 1) covering 2023–2024 - the originals are one click away. state disclosure filings
Serves as State Senator, District 27 (Kentucky) since Mar 2015. github.com ↗

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Roll-call votes on record.

1 vote · 1 yes. 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 15, 2026

LATEST: YESA RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Arthur Ryan to the Board of Nursing.SR 230 · Apr 15, 2026

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Personal finances

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2 filings on record

Form 1 · 2023–2024

Form 1 is Florida’s shorter disclosure - income sources, property, and business interests, without a net-worth figure.

Form 12024 ↗2023 ↗

Filed as Stephen Ryan West - Board of Pharmacy - matched to Steve West by name; the original names the filer.

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Political placement

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Shor-McCarty · votesConservative

More conservative than 90% of Kentucky Senate members

Details

Score+0.93 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom roll-call votes

Party median0.15 more conservative than the Republican median in this group (+0.78)

Compared with103 members of Kentucky Senate members (1996–2022)

Covers2018–2022

● This person Democrats (43) Republicans (59)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 59% of 2022 Kentucky Senate candidates

Details

Score+1.06 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom campaign donors

Party median0.01 more liberal than the Republican median in this group (+1.06)

Compared with46 members of 2022 Kentucky Senate candidates

Covers2010–2022

● This person Democrats (11) Republicans (34)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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upper rollcall: CONSENT PASSAGE OF SR 230cast in vote

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