Joe Manchin, III

Former Senator from West Virginia, 2010–2025 · Independent

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Record from the 118th Congress · From public records: votes from Voteview, bills from congress.gov, money from FEC filings · votes updated Nov 10, 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

Attendance

How it’s measured
86/ 100

Chamber median 97 · 96 missed of 691

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

50%100%

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%

Bipartisan

How it’s measured
35/ 100

Chamber median 18 · +17

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

0%70%

Position

How it’s measured
−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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Manchin’s bills that passed the Senate or further

All bills

1 bill sponsored in the 118th Congress, furthest along first. These are the bills counted in Manchin’s effectiveness score.

How we count words

Stage comes from each bill’s latest action on congress.gov; the full history is on each bill page.