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Republican · West Virginia Senate, district 7

Serving since Nov 5, 2025WV 2025–26 session

Portrait of Zack Maynard, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
0%
of sponsored bills got out of committee, in the bottom 5% of the West Virginia Senate

0% of 7 sponsored bills got out of committee; the average for the West Virginia Senate is 26%. Ranks 34th of 34, where 1st is the highest share.

The share of bills Maynard sponsored that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, ranked within the West Virginia Senate. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position as well as effort.

At a glance

6 measures against the West Virginia Senate. 84% of Maynard’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from West Virginia, in the bottom quarter of State Senate Republicans. Maynard sits at +0.28 on the CSIP scale, more liberal than 63% of State Senate Republicans.

The measures on which Maynard sits furthest from the middle of the West Virginia Senate, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.

Out of committee

0%

West Virginia Senate average 26% · ranks 34th of 34

Attendance

100%

West Virginia Senate average 97.9% · ranks 5th of 34 · 431 roll calls

From West Virginia, 2026

84%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 657th of 860 State Senate Republicans

CSIP ideology

+0.28

More liberal than 63% of State Senate Republicans · ± 0.05

Party unity

96.6%

West Virginia Senate average 88% · ranks 15th of 34 · 2 votes against the majority of West Virginia Senate Republicans

Itemized, 2026

$57.2K

State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K · ranks 430th of 936

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

Back to topNext: What politicians say

What Maynard says

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

Back to topNext: Policy

Policy

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

Back to topNext: Ideology

Ideology

Maynard sits at +0.28 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more liberal than 63% of State Senate Republicans. Approximate range +0.23 to +0.33, which understates the uncertainty; from 40 donors and 401 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”.

+0.28

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range +0.23 to +0.33. From 40 donors and 401 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Maynard +0.3State Senate Republicans +0.4West Virginia Senate +0.3All State Senate +0.1

The outlined dot is Maynard, 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 Maynard’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 Maynard sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State Senate Republicansmedian +0.4Maynard +0.3West Virginia Senatemedian +0.3All State Senatemedian +0.1
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Maynard's CSIP score of +0.28 placed against State Senate Republicans, West Virginia Senate, All State Senate.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Maynard
State Senate Republicans1083+0.437%
West Virginia Senate34+0.335%
All State Senate1909+0.164%
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 Maynard 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 Maynard.

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Money

Maynard reported $57.2K in the 2026 cycle, above the State Senate Republicans’ median of $46.2K. State filings report no small-donation total. 84% of itemized individual money came from West Virginia.

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
$57.2K

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 32 itemized donors. State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K.

Where the money came from

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

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  • Individuals (itemized)50 squares$28.7K
  • PACs and other committees50 squares$28.5K
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Sources of Maynard's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$28.7K50.1%
PACs and other committees$28.5K49.9%
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 Senate Republicans’ median for 2026.

2020 cycle: $25.1K$25.1K20202026 cycle: $57.2K$57.2K2026State Senate Republicans median $46.2K
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Maynard's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State Senate Republicans median.
ItemValue
2020 cycle$25.1K
2026 cycle$57.2K

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 84% came from West Virginia.

  1. West Virginia$24.2K
  2. Ohio$1,000
  3. Minnesota$600
  4. Massachusetts$500
  5. Kansas$500

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: no dataIDMontana: no dataMTNorth Dakota: no dataNDMinnesota: $600MNIllinois: no dataILWisconsin: no dataWIMichigan: no dataMINew York: no dataNYRhode Island: no dataRIMassachusetts: $500MAOregon: no dataORNevada: no dataNVWyoming: no dataWYSouth Dakota: no dataSDIowa: no dataIAIndiana: no dataINOhio: $1,000OHPennsylvania: no dataPANew Jersey: no dataNJConnecticut: no dataCTCalifornia: no dataCAUtah: no dataUTColorado: no dataCONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: no dataMOKentucky: no dataKYWest Virginia: $24.2KWVVirginia: no dataVAMaryland: no dataMDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: no dataAZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: $500KSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: no dataTNNorth Carolina: no dataNCSouth Carolina: no dataSCDistrict of Columbia: no dataDCOklahoma: no dataOKLouisiana: no dataLAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: no dataALGeorgia: no dataGAHawaii: no dataHITexas: no dataTXFlorida: no dataFL
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Maynard's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
West Virginia$24.2K
Ohio$1,000
Minnesota$600
Massachusetts$500
Kansas$500
AlaskaNo data
MaineNo data
VermontNo data
New HampshireNo data
WashingtonNo data
IdahoNo data
MontanaNo data
North DakotaNo data
IllinoisNo data
WisconsinNo data
MichiganNo data
New YorkNo data
Rhode IslandNo data
OregonNo data
NevadaNo data
WyomingNo data
South DakotaNo data
IowaNo data
IndianaNo data
PennsylvaniaNo data
New JerseyNo data
ConnecticutNo data
CaliforniaNo data
UtahNo data
ColoradoNo data
NebraskaNo data
MissouriNo data
KentuckyNo data
VirginiaNo data
MarylandNo data
DelawareNo data
ArizonaNo data
New MexicoNo data
ArkansasNo data
TennesseeNo data
North CarolinaNo data
South CarolinaNo data
District of ColumbiaNo data
OklahomaNo data
LouisianaNo data
MississippiNo data
AlabamaNo data
GeorgiaNo data
HawaiiNo data
TexasNo data
FloridaNo data
32

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

84%

from West Virginia

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 West Virginia. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

  1. GAMING INDUSTRY$8,700 7 donors
  2. ATTORNEY/LEGAL$3,000 4 donors
  3. RETIRED$3,000 3 donors

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.

  1. OPERATORS POLITICAL EDUCATION & EDUCATION COMMITTEE (O.P.E.C)$5,600
  2. WEST VIRGINIA AUTO AND TRUCK DEALERS (WV CAR PAC)$4,000
  3. BLUE AND GOLD PAC$2,800
  4. GREATER WV CARPENTERS PEC$2,800
  5. PHILLIPS, RUPERT JR.$2,800

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

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Votes

Maynard voted with the majority of West Virginia Senate Republicans on 96.6% of party-line votes and missed none of 431 roll calls. West Virginia Senate on average: 88% party unity, 97.9% attendance. Across all roll calls, Maynard voted against the majority of West Virginia Senate Republicans 2 times.

431 roll calls Maynard could vote on in the WV 2025–26 session, compared with West Virginia Senate. 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 Maynard voted with the majority of West Virginia Senate Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

2

votes against the majority of West Virginia Senate Republicans

Party unity 96.6%, West Virginia Senate average 88%, ranks 15th of 34. 431 roll calls in the WV 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Maynard, the thin grey bar the West Virginia Senate average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.

80%100%
Maynard
Peers
Rank
Attendance
100%
97.9%
5th of 34
Party unity
96.6%
88%
15th of 34
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Maynard's attendance and party unity against West Virginia Senate.
RowMaynardPeers
Attendance100%97.9%
Party unity96.6%88%
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 WV 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Mar 14, 2026
HB 4004
Creating the Recharge West Virginia Program
Passage
YeaWith majoritypassD 2–0 · R 31–1Democrats 2 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 31 yea, 1 naybecame law
Mar 14, 2026
HB 5277
Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Health Facilities-Welch Community Hospital, William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital, and Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital from the Unappropriated Surplus Balance
Passage
YeaWith majoritypassD 2–0 · R 32–0Democrats 2 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 32 yea, 0 naybecame law
Mar 14, 2026
HB 5694
Supplemental appropriation to Department of Education, fund 0313.
Passage
YeaWith majoritypassD 2–0 · R 32–0Democrats 2 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 32 yea, 0 naybecame law
Mar 14, 2026
HB 4009
Relating to the creation of the Portable Benefit Account Act
Passage
YeaWith majoritypassD 2–0 · R 32–0Democrats 2 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 32 yea, 0 naybecame law
Mar 14, 2026
HB 5288
Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Agriculture-West Virginia Spay Neuter Assistance Fund from Special Revenue
Passage
YeaWith majoritypassD 2–0 · R 32–0Democrats 2 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 32 yea, 0 naybecame law
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 Maynard most often

  1. Scott FullerR431 shared votes100%
  2. Rupie PhillipsR417 shared votes100%
  3. Randy SmithR413 shared votes100%
  4. Anne CharnockR431 shared votes99%
  5. Glenn JeffriesR428 shared votes99%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Maynard least often

  1. Joey GarciaD431 shared votes90%
  2. Craig HartR357 shared votes91%
  3. Mike WoelfelD405 shared votes92%
  4. Chris RoseR407 shared votes94%
  5. Patrick MartinR431 shared votes96%
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

WV 2025–26 session, loads in batches

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

Maynard sponsored 7 bills in the WV 2025–26 session; none became law. Cosponsored 42 others. 0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (West Virginia Senate average 26%; 34th of 34).

The bills Maynard sponsored and cosponsored in the WV 2025–26 session, from the official bill records, and how far each got: introduced, referred to or acted on in committee, passed one chamber, passed both, became law. A bill counts at every stage it has reached, so the blocks only shrink to the right.

Bills by stage

Counts for the WV 2025–26 session

Sponsored7 billsSponsored, Introduced: 77Sponsored, In committee: 66Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 00Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 00Sponsored, Became law: 00Cosponsored42 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 4242Cosponsored, In committee: 3333Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 1212Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 88Cosponsored, Became law: 88IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Maynard sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored76000
Cosponsored42331288
How to read the blocks

Ink blocks are bills Maynard sponsored, ochre blocks bills Maynard cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.

0%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

West Virginia Senate average 26%. Ranks 34th of 34.

Cosponsorship partners

Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Maynard, by number of shared bills in the WV 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.

  1. Rupie Phillips17
  2. Chris Rose17
  3. Robbie Morris14
  4. Brian Helton13
  5. Rollan Roberts13
What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score is the share of sponsored bills that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, with at least 5 sponsored bills, ranked within the peer group. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position in the chamber as well as effort. Cosponsorship partners are the five colleagues who share the most of Maynard’s bills; the toggle shows more.

Bill list

Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest

Bills sponsored and cosponsored
SR 67Recognizing dedicated public service of Honorable Michael Andrew WoelfelCosponsorMar 14, 2026IntroducedUnassignedCompleted legislative action Mar 14, 2026
SR 68Recognizing dedicated public service of Honorable Charles Houston ClementsCosponsorMar 14, 2026IntroducedUnassignedCompleted legislative action Mar 14, 2026
SB 1083Requiring registration as sex offender for conviction of indecent exposure to certain minorsCosponsorMar 2, 2026Passed one chamberCrime and Law Enforcement(model)To House Judiciary Mar 5, 2026
SR 49Commending volunteers for their recovery efforts for flooding at Chief Logan State ParkCosponsorFeb 24, 2026IntroducedUnassignedCompleted legislative action Feb 25, 2026
SR 48Memorializing life of Honorable Sarah Abigail (Mullennex) MinearCosponsorFeb 23, 2026IntroducedUnassignedCompleted legislative action Feb 24, 2026

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Online

The lab crawls Maynard’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 Maynard posts with a vision model.

Websites

No websites are tracked for this official.

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.

Social accounts

No social accounts on file.

Images Maynard posted

No images from Maynard’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 Maynard is most unusual among West Virginia Senate, 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. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).

Identifiers

Profile id
1039d280-ca07-4923-a501-408c5f7703dc
Open States
ocd-person/1039d280-ca07-4923-a501-408c5f7703dc

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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