Analysis: After months of legislating, ranking the 2021 Texas House and Senate from right to left
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These rankings across the ideological spectrum are based on roll-call votes in the Texas House and Senate during this year’s regular and special sessions.
by Mark P. Jones Nov. 3, 20213 PM Central
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After three special legislative sessions, I’ve updated the 2021 regular legislative session ideological rankings for the Texas House and the Texas Senate published in June. These rankings across the ideological spectrum are based on roll-call votes in the regular and special sessions held this year.
House Republicans

The 82 Republican members of the Texas House reflect a wide range of ideological positions. Republican Speaker Dade Phelen of Beaumont, by custom, doesn’t ordinarily vote and is not included in this analysis, nor is Brian Harrison of Midlothian, who didn’t take office until the end of the third special session.

Briscoe Cain of Deer Park, Cody Vasut of Angleton, Steve Toth of The Woodlands, Matt Krause of Fort Worth, Jared Patterson of Frisco and Bryan Slaton of Royse City anchor the most conservative end of spectrum.

Lyle Larson of San Antonio, Dan Huberty of Houston, Kyle Kacal of College Station, Morgan Meyer of Dallas, J.M. Lozano of Kingsville and Jim Murphy of Houston were at the other end of the Republican ideological spectrum in the House this year.

Dustin Burrows of Lubbock and David Spiller of Jacksboro are at the absolute center of the 82-member 2021 House Republican delegation.

Texas House Republicans ranked from most to least conservative

Eighty-three Republicans in the 150-member Texas House were scored based on their votes in 2021's regular legislative session and three special sessions. They are ranked from most to least conservative. (As House Speaker, Republican Dade Phelan doesn't normally vote and is not included in the analysis.)

A higher score indicates a more conservative ranking, based on a legislator's votes during the regular and special sessions.

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Methodology

Political scientists have for decades used roll-call votes cast by members of Congress to plot them on the Liberal-Conservative dimension along which most legislative politics now take place.

These rankings of the Texas House and of the Texas Senate do the same. The House analysis and Senate analysis are respectively based on the 1,784 and 1,397 non-lopsided roll call votes taken during the 2021 regular legislative session and three special legislative sessions through October.

The legislators are ranked from most liberal to most conservative based on their Liberal-Conservative Score, or Lib-Con Score, with the 95% credible interval for this point estimate also provided. If two legislators’ credible intervals overlap, their positions on the ideological spectrum might be statistically equivalent, even if their Lib-Con Scores are different. The Lib-Con Scores are chamber specific and are therefore not directly comparable.

In no case in 2021 did the credible interval of a Republican legislator in either the House or Senate overlap with that of a Democratic legislator, indicating that in each chamber, every Republican is significantly more conservative than every Democrat, and every Democrat is significantly more liberal than every Republican.-- excerpt, rest at link above --


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