John Williams

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Serves as State Representative, District 80 (West Virginia) since Dec 2022. github.com ↗

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Political placement

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Shor-McCarty · votesLiberal

More liberal than 92% of West Virginia House of Delegates members

Details

Score−0.68 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom roll-call votes

Party median0.33 more liberal than the Democratic median in this group (−0.35)

Compared with419 members of West Virginia House of Delegates members (1996–2022)

Covers2017–2022

● This person Democrats (221) Republicans (198)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 ↗

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