Joe Manchin, III

Former Senator from West Virginia, 2010–2025 · Independent

Record from the 118th Congress · From public records: votes from Voteview, bills from congress.gov, money from FEC filings · votes updated Nov 9, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 118th Congress

How it’s measured
0.56· expected 1.14

Below expectations

Rank 67 of 102 who served in the Senate that Congress · expected = average of 53 majority-party members

How far Manchin’s own bills got, weighted by substance. The average member scores 1.00.

  1. Introduced 42
  2. Action in committee 7
  3. Action beyond committee 5
  4. Passed chamber 1
  5. Became law 0

42 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 0 significant (got a roll call vote), 42 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the Senate

How Manchin’s ratings compare with every senator

Ratings, 118th Congress

Scores run 0–100 and always sit next to a median. Each tick is one senator; the ringed marker is Manchin. Medians and ranks are among everyone who served in the 118th Congress’s Senate.

Manchin in plain answers: party votes, bipartisanship, who votes alike

86/ 100

Chamber median 97 · 96 missed of 691

Voted on 595 of 691 roll calls; missed 96. Lower than 94% of senators.

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Party loyalty

How it’s measured
79/ 100

Senate D median 99 · Rank 53 of 53

Sided with the Democratic majority on 468 votes that split the parties. Lower than 95% of senators.

40%100%
35/ 100

Chamber median 18 · +17

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Higher than 97% of senators.

0%70%
−0.06

Democratic middle 80%: -0.48 to -0.21

Left–right position from roll-call similarity (DW-NOMINATE, Voteview), from −1 to +1. Members who vote alike sit near each other.

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Bills, 118th Congress

Sponsored 57 (median 52) · cosponsored 259 (median 327). Medians are for all voting members of the Senate. From congress.gov.

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