The Republicans in the Alaska House are splintered, to be sure. Some of them defected to create a bipartisan coalition led by Democrats, while others stayed with a Republican minority that is now made up of 15 members.
But how they have vote is the real measure of where their politics are on the spectrum of Republican to Democrat.
On 65 contested votes through April 18, here are the percentages of times all members of the House voted with the predominant Republican caucus position. The “predominant Republican” threshold for this scoring was set for votes occurring when at least half of the Republican caucus took a position contrary to the Democrat-led majority caucus:
Cathy Tilton – 100.0%
George Rauscher – 98.3%
Lance Pruitt – 96.9%
Ben Carpenter – 96.9%
Dave Talerico – 95.4%
David Eastman – 96.5%
Colleen Sullivan-Leonard – 96.5%
Mark Neuman – 92.9%
Sharon Jackson – 92.2%
Josh Revak – 90.6%
Sara Rasmussen – 88.9%
Sarah Vance – 87.7%
DeLena Johnson – 86.1%
Kelly Merrick – 83.3%
Laddie Shaw – 75.4%
Then we come to the members of the Democrat-led majority. These are their scores of how often they vote with the Republican position on the same 65 contested votes:
Tammie Wilson – 41.5%
Bart LeBon – 33.9%
John Lincoln – 28.6%
Jennifer Johnston – 27.7%
Steve Thompson – 26.2%
Chuck Kopp – 24.6%
Gabrielle LeDoux – 18.5%
Louise Stutes – 10.8%
Gary Knopp – 9.5%
Chris Tuck – 8.3%
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins – 8.1%
Dan Ortiz – 6.5%
Geran Tarr – 6.2%
Matt Claman – 6.2%
Adam Wool – 4.6%
Andi Story – 4.6%
Bryce Edgmon – 4.6%
Grier Hopkins – 4.6%
Zack Fields – 3.13%
Ivy Spohnholz – 3.13%
Harriet Drummond – 3.08%
Neal Foster – 3.08%
Tiffany Zulkosky – 1.6%
Andy Josephson – 1.5%
Sara Hannan – 1.5%
