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Democrat · Idaho House, district 17A

Serving since Dec 1, 2012ID 2025–26 session

Portrait of John Gannon, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
13
years in office

Serving since 2012. No measure in the ID 2025–26 session stands far from the peer average.

Time in the current office, from the official record.

At a glance

5 measures against State House Democrats. 99% of Gannon’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Idaho, in the top half of State House Democrats. Gannon sits at −0.50 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 69% of State House Democrats. Gannon reported $16.1K in the 2026 cycle, in the bottom half of State House Democrats (median $40.4K).

The measures on which Gannon sits furthest from the middle of State House Democrats, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.

Attendance

99.5%

Idaho House average 96.8% · ranks 11th of 64 · 916 roll calls

From Idaho, 2026

99%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 511th of 1,983 State House Democrats

CSIP ideology

−0.50

More conservative than 69% of State House Democrats · ± 0.03

Itemized, 2026

$16.1K

State House Democrats’ median $40.4K · ranks 1444th of 2,082

Party unity

88%

Idaho House average 84% · ranks 37th of 64 · 44 votes against the majority of Idaho House Democrats

Statements

No statements in this window

Peer group: State House Democrats. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Gannon, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Gannon is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).

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What Gannon says

No statements for the ID 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

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Policy

No policy statements for the ID 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

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Ideology

Gannon sits at −0.50 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more conservative than 69% of State House Democrats. Approximate range −0.53 to −0.47, which understates the uncertainty; from 181 donors and 1,186 roll calls.

CSIP, the lab’s Common-Space Ideal Point, places every official, federal and state, on one left–right scale, estimated from roll-call votes, who gives money to whom, and the text of statements. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of “moderate”.

−0.50

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range −0.53 to −0.47. From 181 donors and 1,186 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Gannon −0.5State House Democrats −0.6Idaho House +0.1All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is Gannon, coloured by its side of 0 (blue left, red right, deeper further out); the bar through it is the approximate range (±1.96 standard errors), which understates the uncertainty; the grey ticks below are the medians of Gannon’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.

What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score summarises how an official votes, who funds them and how they talk, relative to everyone else. It does not grade positions as good or bad, and two officials with the same score can differ on any single issue. The ± range is 1.96 standard errors, which understates the uncertainty: scores whose ranges overlap may not differ at all, and even scores whose ranges do not overlap may not differ.

Where Gannon sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State House Democratsmedian −0.6Gannon −0.5Idaho Housemedian +0.1All State Housemedian +0.1
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Gannon's CSIP score of −0.50 placed against State House Democrats, Idaho House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Gannon
State House Democrats2392−0.669%
Idaho House70+0.111%
All State House5324+0.131%
How to read the strips

Every small dot is one official on the same scale, coloured by its own score (blue left of 0, red right of 0, grey at 0, deeper further out) and spread up and down only to keep dots apart; where a group is crowded the dots overlap, and darker patches mean more officials. The large outlined dot is Gannon in every row; the rule is each group’s median. The table under the figure gives the share of each group to the left of Gannon.

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Money

Gannon reported $16.1K in the 2026 cycle, 40% of the State House Democrats’ median of $40.4K. State filings report no small-donation total. 99% of itemized individual money came from Idaho.

Campaign money from state campaign-finance filings, as aggregates only; the lab never shows an individual donor. Campaigns must report by name every person who gives them more than $200 in a cycle (“itemized”); smaller gifts are reported only as one total (“unitemized”), so donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations describe itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift total, so these figures add up itemized contributions only.

Election cycle
$16.1K

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 92 itemized donors. State House Democrats’ median $40.4K.

Where the money came from

Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.

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  • Individuals (itemized)91 squares$14.6K
  • PACs and other committees9 squares$1,500
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Sources of Gannon's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$14.6K90.7%
PACs and other committees$1,5009.3%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

Totals say how much a campaign took in, not how it was spent, and they rise sharply when a seat is up for election; compare cycles with that in mind.

Receipts by cycle

Itemized contributions, 2020 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Democrats’ median for 2026.

2020 cycle: $11.3K$11.3K20202022 cycle: $18.5K$18.5K20222024 cycle: $17.6K$17.6K20242026 cycle: $16.1K$16.1K2026State House Democrats median $40.4K
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Gannon's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State House Democrats median.
ItemValue
2020 cycle$11.3K
2022 cycle$18.5K
2024 cycle$17.6K
2026 cycle$16.1K

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 99% came from Idaho.

  1. Idaho$14.4K
  2. District of Columbia$100
  3. California$100

Small donations

State filings report no total for small gifts.

Not reported in state filings.

Where itemized donors live

Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state

Alaska: no dataAKMaine: no dataMEVermont: no dataVTNew Hampshire: no dataNHWashington: no dataWAIdaho: $14.4KIDMontana: no dataMTNorth Dakota: no dataNDMinnesota: no dataMNIllinois: no dataILWisconsin: no dataWIMichigan: no dataMINew York: no dataNYRhode Island: no dataRIMassachusetts: no dataMAOregon: no dataORNevada: no dataNVWyoming: no dataWYSouth Dakota: no dataSDIowa: no dataIAIndiana: no dataINOhio: no dataOHPennsylvania: no dataPANew Jersey: no dataNJConnecticut: no dataCTCalifornia: $100CAUtah: no dataUTColorado: no dataCONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: no dataMOKentucky: no dataKYWest Virginia: no dataWVVirginia: no dataVAMaryland: no dataMDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: no dataAZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: no dataKSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: no dataTNNorth Carolina: no dataNCSouth Carolina: no dataSCDistrict of Columbia: $100DCOklahoma: no dataOKLouisiana: no dataLAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: no dataALGeorgia: no dataGAHawaii: no dataHITexas: no dataTXFlorida: no dataFL
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Gannon's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Idaho$14.4K
California$100
District of Columbia$100
AlaskaNo data
MaineNo data
VermontNo data
New HampshireNo data
WashingtonNo data
MontanaNo data
North DakotaNo data
MinnesotaNo data
IllinoisNo data
WisconsinNo data
MichiganNo data
New YorkNo data
Rhode IslandNo data
MassachusettsNo data
OregonNo data
NevadaNo data
WyomingNo data
South DakotaNo data
IowaNo data
IndianaNo data
OhioNo data
PennsylvaniaNo data
New JerseyNo data
ConnecticutNo data
UtahNo data
ColoradoNo data
NebraskaNo data
MissouriNo data
KentuckyNo data
West VirginiaNo data
VirginiaNo data
MarylandNo data
DelawareNo data
ArizonaNo data
New MexicoNo data
KansasNo data
ArkansasNo data
TennesseeNo data
North CarolinaNo data
South CarolinaNo data
OklahomaNo data
LouisianaNo data
MississippiNo data
AlabamaNo data
GeorgiaNo data
HawaiiNo data
TexasNo data
FloridaNo data
92

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

99%

from Idaho

Of itemized individual dollars

How to read the map

Every state the same size. Darker states gave more itemized money; hatched states had no itemized donors; the outlined state is Idaho. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No occupations reported.

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.

  1. RUBEL, ILANA$1,000
  2. IDAHO AUTOMOBILE DEARLERS ASSOC, INC AUTOPAC$500

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

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Votes

Gannon voted with the majority of Idaho House Democrats on 88% of party-line votes and missed 0.4% of 916 roll calls. Idaho House on average: 84% party unity, 96.8% attendance. Across all roll calls, Gannon voted against the majority of Idaho House Democrats 44 times.

916 roll calls Gannon could vote on in the ID 2025–26 session, compared with Idaho House. Attendance is the share with a vote recorded. Party unity counts only party-line roll calls, where most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides, and is the share of those where Gannon voted with the majority of Idaho House Democrats. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

44

votes against the majority of Idaho House Democrats

Party unity 88%, Idaho House average 84%, ranks 37th of 64. 916 roll calls in the ID 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Gannon, the thin grey bar the Idaho House average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.

80%100%
Gannon
Peers
Rank
Attendance
99.5%
96.8%
11th of 64
Party unity
88%
84%
37th of 64
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Gannon's attendance and party unity against Idaho House.
RowGannonPeers
Attendance99.5%96.8%
Party unity88%84%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

A missed roll call has many causes, from illness to campaigning, so attendance says how often, not why. A vote against the majority can be on procedure as well as substance, and many fall on roll calls where both parties split; the key votes below show the ones that decided something.

Key votes

25 roll calls the lab flagged as key in the ID 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Apr 2, 2026
H 516
EDUCATION – Amends and adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding the prohibition of taxpayer funding of teachers unions.
passage
NayWith majoritypassD 0–9 · R 38–15Democrats 0 yea, 9 nay; Republicans 38 yea, 15 naybecame law · party crossover
Apr 2, 2026
H 978
APPROPRIATIONS – HEALTH AND WELFARE – PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES – Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal year 2027.
Rules Suspended: Ayes 58 Nays 0 Abs/Excd 12, read in full as required –
YeaWith majoritypassD 6–3 · R 27–22Democrats 6 yea, 3 nay; Republicans 27 yea, 22 naybecame law · close vote · party crossover
Apr 2, 2026
H 975
APPROPRIATIONS – Relates to the appropriation and transfer of moneys in the state treasury for fiscal year 2027.
Rules Suspended: Ayes 59 Nays 6 Abs/Excd 5, read in full as required –
NayWith majoritypassD 1–8 · R 39–13Democrats 1 yea, 8 nay; Republicans 39 yea, 13 nayparty crossover
Apr 2, 2026
H 974
APPROPRIATIONS – IDAHO STATE POLICE – Relates to the appropriation to the Idaho State Police for fiscal year 2027.
Rules Suspended: Ayes 58 Nays 0 Abs/Excd 12, read in full as required –
YeaWith majoritypassD 9–0 · R 48–0Democrats 9 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 48 yea, 0 naybecame law
Apr 2, 2026
S 1438
APPROPRIATIONS – PUBLIC SCHOOLS – IDAHO DIGITAL LEARNING ACADEMY DIVISION – Relates to the appropriation to the Public Schools Educational Support Program’s Division of the Idaho Digital Learning Academy for fiscal year 2027.
Rules Suspended: Ayes 59 Nays 6 Abs/Excd 5, read in full as required –
NayWith majoritypassD 0–9 · R 33–19Democrats 0 yea, 9 nay; Republicans 33 yea, 19 naybecame law · party crossover
How key votes are chosen

Automatically: a final-passage or override vote where the measure became law, the margin was under 10%, at least 10% of either party voted against its majority, or the bill was among the 25 most mentioned in officials’ own statements. Up to 25 per window, most recent first; five are shown. Bars show yea on the left, nay on the right, per party.

Votes most often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Gannon most often

  1. Megan EgbertD899 shared votes94%
  2. Annie Henderson HawsD410 shared votes94%
  3. Todd AchillesD443 shared votes93%
  4. Brooke GreenD731 shared votes93%
  5. Ilana RubelD842 shared votes93%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Gannon least often

  1. Lucas CaylerR900 shared votes53%
  2. Faye ThompsonR893 shared votes55%
  3. Clint HostetlerR908 shared votes55%
  4. David LeavittR902 shared votes55%
  5. Kent MarmonR894 shared votes56%
How to read the agreement lists

The share of roll calls both members voted on where they voted the same way, among colleagues sharing at least 50 such votes. High agreement with members of the other party is common on routine votes.

Full voting record

ID 2025–26 session, loads in batches

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Legislation

No bills for the ID 2025–26 session.No sponsored or cosponsored bills are recorded for this official in this time window.

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Online

A site that changed 1 time in 90 days. Gannon’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.

The lab crawls Gannon’s official and campaign websites (weekly for Congress, monthly for the states) and keeps every page’s text, so changes can be read later; it also records social accounts and describes the images Gannon posts with a vision model.

Websites

How to read the counts

“Pages crawled” is the size of the site at the last crawl; “changes in 90 days” counts pages whose text differed from the previous crawl. Sites change for many routine reasons, such as new press releases, so a high count is not by itself notable.

Images Gannon posted

No images from Gannon’s posts have been described.

About the descriptions

Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.

State floor speeches

No transcribed state floor speeches are matched to this legislator yet.

Floor speeches

Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.

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Methods and sources

How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.

The headline

The headline is the measure on which Gannon is most unusual among State House Democrats, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.

The builder ranks every measure within the same peer group the page compares it with, and writes each official’s percentile: the share of the group below the value, ties counting half, so 0.5 is the median and a value shared by many never ranks first. A measure’s score is how far that percentile sits from the median (0 in the middle, 0.5 at either end), and the highest score leads if it is above 0.25, outside the middle half of the group. Scores within 0.03 of each other are a tie, broken in this order: votes against the party majority, kinds of statement, ideology, roll calls missed, small donations, in-state money, legislation, agreement, extreme labels, receipts.

A measure counts only with at least 200 statements, 100 roll calls or 5 sponsored bills behind it and a peer group of at least 10. Two things never lead: high party unity or attendance, where most members sit, and a high rate of a kind of statement backed by fewer than 10 statements. When nothing qualifies, the headline is a neutral fact instead: statements classified, or years in office. That is the case for Gannon in this window. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).

Identifiers

Profile id
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Open States
ocd-person/048117e1-cf54-4ebf-9afc-f244d023e039

Bulk files with the same data for every official:

Freshness of this profile’s data

  • What politicians sayOct 27, 20261 days agoMembers of Congress: tweets since 2017; press releases, newsletters and floor speeches since 2022. State legislators: tweets since May 2024. Governors: tweets since January 2025. Labels from an LLM classifier.
  • Roll calls (state)Oct 21, 20267 days agoOpen States floor roll calls, 2019 on (none for AK and MO).
  • Bills (state)Oct 28, 2026todayOpen States bills and sponsors, 2019 on; stages from roll calls.
  • Campaign money (state)no dateState campaign-finance agencies, 2019 on; aggregates only.
  • Ideology (CSIP)Oct 25, 20263 days agoCommon-Space Ideal Points (CSIP), current validated run.
  • WebsitesOct 25, 20263 days agoWeekly crawls of federal sites since April 2026; monthly state crawls since June 2026.
  • State floor speechesOct 21, 20267 days agoState floor speech turns (published transcripts and captions), 2020 on; not LLM-classified.

How the measures work

What politicians say
Every post, press release, newsletter and congressional floor speech is read by a language model and marked for personal attacks, policy criticism, policy discussion, bipartisanship and credit claiming. A statement can be in several. Rates are shares of statements in the window. The methods paper.
Extreme labels
A statement has an extreme label when it calls a politician, party or policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who the label is aimed at.
Policy areas and agreement
Statements and bills share 25 Congressional Research Service policy areas (state bills are assigned by a language model). Agreement is 1 − Jensen–Shannon distance between the two distributions, shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology (CSIP)
Common-Space Ideal Points place federal and state officials on one left–right scale, estimated jointly from roll calls, campaign contributions and the text of statements, with standard errors. Only a validated run is shown. The methods paper.
Campaign money
Campaigns report by name only donors who give more than $200 in a cycle; smaller gifts are reported as one total. Federal totals and the small-donor share come from the FEC’s financial summaries of each campaign committee. Donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations cover itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift totals, so state figures are itemized only. The lab never publishes donor names.
Votes and key votes
Attendance, party unity and the count of votes against the majority of an official’s own party come from roll calls (Voteview for Congress, chamber records for the states). Key votes are final-passage or override votes that became law, were decided by under 10%, saw at least 10% of a party vote against its majority, or concerned one of the 25 bills most mentioned in officials’ statements.
Peers and ranks
Comparisons are with the same party, chamber and level (for example House Democrats); state legislators are compared within their state and chamber for votes. Every comparison names its group. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; tied values share the average of their ranks, and the percentile is the share of the group below the value, ties counting half.

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