About the Grade Card
Welcome to the Act for Missouri 2025 General Assembly Grade Card. We’ve evaluated every member of the Missouri General Assembly based on their voting records across various bill categories. Each member’s votes were calculated as percentages for these categories, offering a transparent view of their legislative priorities.
What this is all about
How We Determined Bill Categories
To ensure an unbiased analysis, we categorized each bill based solely on voting patterns, not the bill content itself. This approach avoids subjective interpretation and focuses on how legislators actually voted.
For every bill that passed, we calculated the percentage of Democrats and Republicans in each chamber (House and Senate) who voted in favor. We then compared these support levels to identify the political leaning of each bill using the following framework. For categories that include appropriation bills, scores were provided for all bills in the category, for appropriation bills only, and for general bills (those not classified as appropriation bills).
- Strong Democratic: The average percentage of Democrats in the House and Senate who supported the bill was at least 20 percentage points higher than the average percentage of Republicans who supported it.
- Lean Democratic: The percentage of Democratic support was higher than Republican support, but by less than 20 percentage points.
- Lean GOP: The percentage of Republican support was higher than Democratic support, but by less than 20 percentage points.
- Strong GOP: The average percentage of Republicans in the House and Senate who supported the bill was at least 20 percentage points higher than the average percentage of Democrats who supported it.
Strong Democrat
The average percentage of Democrats in the House and Senate who supported the bill was at least 20 percentage points higher than the average percentage of Republicans who supported it.
Lean Democrat
The percentage of Democratic support was higher than Republican support, but by less than 20 percentage points.
Lean Republican
The percentage of Republican support was higher than Democratic support, but by less than 20 percentage points.
Strong Republican
The average percentage of Republicans in the House and Senate who supported the bill was at least 20 percentage points higher than the average percentage of Democrats who supported it.
In addition to these categories, we identified four bills deemed the "worst" based on their significant negative impact, as perceived by our analysis: SB4 ("The Utility Bill"), SB82 ("The Water Permit Bill"), HB12 ("The Appropriations Bill that unfairly targeted Secretary of State Hoskins and Lt. Governor Wassinger"), and SB3 ("The Stadium Bill"). The percentage of "Yes" votes by each member on these four worst bills is included in their grade card to highlight their stance on these critical pieces of legislation.
Why we picked these four bills
This method provides a data-driven, transparent measure of each bill's political alignment—reflecting how each party judged the bill on its merits. To see the detailed classification and percentage of each party’s support for all truly agreed and passed bills used in this evaluation, visit our bill analysis page. Our analysis reveals a critical insight: in the State of Missouri, voting patterns suggest a Uni-Party dynamic rather than a clear Republican Supermajority. This challenges the common perception of the state's political landscape and highlights a more unified legislative behavior across party lines.