Texas Senate Ideology, 2021
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## rank Name party district economic social.crosscut ideoquantile
## 1 1 Sarah Eckhardt D SD-014 -0.9939 -0.1102 0.08%
## 2 2 Borris Miles D SD-013 -0.9691 -0.1203 0.15%
## 3 3 Roland Gutierrez D SD-019 -0.9445 0.1274 0.23%
## 4 4 John Whitmire D SD-015 -0.9418 0.1481 0.31%
## 5 5 Carol Alvarado D SD-006 -0.9332 0.3364 0.38%
## 6 6 Cesar Blanco D SD-029 -0.9117 0.0760 0.46%
## 7 7 Nathan Johnson D SD-016 -0.9100 -0.4146 0.54%
## 8 8 Jose Menendez D SD-026 -0.8787 -0.1048 0.62%
## 9 9 Judith Zaffirini D SD-021 -0.8369 -0.0995 0.69%
## 10 10 Royce West D SD-023 -0.8242 0.5346 0.77%
## 11 11 Beverly Powell D SD-010 -0.7355 -0.3871 0.85%
## 12 12 Juan Hinojosa D SD-020 -0.5573 0.5694 0.92%
## 13 13 Eddie Lucio D SD-027 -0.2776 0.9099 1%
## 14 14 Kel Seliger R SD-031 0.4913 -0.8710 0.06%
## 15 15 Larry Taylor R SD-011 0.7288 0.1453 0.11%
## 16 16 Joan Huffman R SD-017 0.7350 0.1887 0.17%
## 17 17 Donna Campbell R SD-025 0.7416 0.1079 0.22%
## 18 18 Jane Nelson R SD-012 0.7690 0.0001 0.28%
## 19 19 Lois Kolkhorst R SD-018 0.7847 0.4666 0.33%
## 20 20 Kelly Hancock R SD-009 0.8003 0.0301 0.39%
## 21 21 Charles Perry R SD-028 0.8056 -0.5247 0.44%
## 22 22 Angela Paxton R SD-008 0.8110 0.2685 0.5%
## 23 23 Paul Bettencourt R SD-007 0.8112 0.3313 0.56%
## 24 24 Dawn Buckingham R SD-024 0.8205 -0.2497 0.61%
## 25 25 Robert Nichols R SD-003 0.8369 0.1125 0.67%
## 26 26 Charles Schwertner R SD-005 0.8446 -0.2393 0.72%
## 27 27 Brian Birdwell R SD-022 0.8707 -0.2749 0.78%
## 28 28 Bob Hall R SD-002 0.9310 0.3650 0.83%
## 29 29 Bryan Hughes R SD-001 0.9803 0.1975 0.89%
## 30 30 Charles Creighton R SD-004 0.9832 -0.1229 0.94%
## 31 31 Drew Springer R SD-030 0.9979 -0.0641 1%