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Democrat · Georgia Senate, district 40

Serving since Jan 14, 2019GA 2025–26 session

Portrait of Sally Harrell, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
69%
of sponsored bills got out of committee, in the bottom quarter of the Georgia Senate

69% of 330 sponsored bills got out of committee; the average for the Georgia Senate is 77%. Ranks 44th of 53, where 1st is the highest share.

The share of bills Harrell sponsored that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, ranked within the Georgia 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 Georgia Senate. 100% of Harrell’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Georgia, in the top quarter of State Senate Democrats. Harrell voted against the majority of Georgia Senate Democrats 74 times; party unity 95.8%, in the bottom half of the Georgia Senate (average 96.0%).

The measures on which Harrell sits furthest from the middle of the Georgia 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

69%

Georgia Senate average 77% · ranks 44th of 53

From Georgia, 2026

100%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 145th of 714 State Senate Democrats

Party unity

95.8%

Georgia Senate average 96.0% · ranks 39th of 54 · 74 votes against the majority of Georgia Senate Democrats

Attendance

90.9%

Georgia Senate average 92.2% · ranks 37th of 54 · 1,406 roll calls

Itemized, 2026

$36.7K

State Senate Democrats’ median $55.5K · ranks 442nd of 746

CSIP ideology

−0.66

More liberal than 52% of State Senate Democrats · ± 0.04

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

Back to topNext: What politicians say

What Harrell says

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

Back to topNext: Ideology

Ideology

Harrell sits at −0.66 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more liberal than 52% of State Senate Democrats. Approximate range −0.71 to −0.62, which understates the uncertainty; from 555 donors and 824 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”.

−0.66

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range −0.71 to −0.62. From 555 donors and 824 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Harrell −0.7State Senate Democrats −0.7Georgia Senate +0.4All State Senate +0.1

The outlined dot is Harrell, 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 Harrell’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 Harrell sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State Senate Democratsmedian −0.7Harrell −0.7Georgia Senatemedian +0.4All State Senatemedian +0.1
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Harrell's CSIP score of −0.66 placed against State Senate Democrats, Georgia Senate, All State Senate.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Harrell
State Senate Democrats825−0.748%
Georgia Senate55+0.45%
All State Senate1909+0.121%
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 Harrell 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 Harrell.

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Money

Harrell reported $36.7K in the 2026 cycle, below the State Senate Democrats’ median of $55.5K. State filings report no small-donation total. 100% of itemized individual money came from Georgia.

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
$36.7K

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 137 itemized donors. State Senate Democrats’ median $55.5K.

Where the money came from

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

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  • Individuals (itemized)73 squares$27.0K
  • PACs and other committees27 squares$9,750
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Sources of Harrell's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$27.0K73.5%
PACs and other committees$9,75026.5%
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 Democrats’ median for 2026.

2020 cycle: $181.9K$181.9K20202022 cycle: $80.6K$80.6K20222024 cycle: $103.2K$103.2K20242026 cycle: $36.7K$36.7K2026State Senate Democrats median $55.5K
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Harrell's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State Senate Democrats median.
ItemValue
2020 cycle$181.9K
2022 cycle$80.6K
2024 cycle$103.2K
2026 cycle$36.7K

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 100% came from Georgia.

  1. Georgia$27.0K
  2. New Jersey$24

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: 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: $24NJConnecticut: no dataCTCalifornia: no dataCAUtah: 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: no dataDCOklahoma: no dataOKLouisiana: no dataLAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: no dataALGeorgia: $27.0KGAHawaii: no dataHITexas: no dataTXFlorida: no dataFL
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Harrell's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Georgia$27.0K
New Jersey$24
AlaskaNo data
MaineNo data
VermontNo data
New HampshireNo data
WashingtonNo data
IdahoNo 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
ConnecticutNo data
CaliforniaNo 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
District of ColumbiaNo data
OklahomaNo data
LouisianaNo data
MississippiNo data
AlabamaNo data
HawaiiNo data
TexasNo data
FloridaNo data
137

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

100%

from Georgia

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

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

  1. NOT EMPLOYED$13.1K 77 donors
  2. RETIRED$4,162 9 donors
  3. OTHER$1,512 13 donors
  4. CONSULTANT$487 4 donors

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.

  1. CIVIL JUSTICE PAC OF GTLA$3,000
  2. BEVPAC$1,000
  3. GEORGIA CHARTER ACTION FUND$1,000
  4. GEORGIA MEDICAL PAC$1,000
  5. GEORGIA MEDICAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$1,000

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

Back to topNext: Votes

Votes

Harrell voted with the majority of Georgia Senate Democrats on 95.8% of party-line votes and missed 9.1% of 1,406 roll calls. Georgia Senate on average: 96.0% party unity, 92.2% attendance. Across all roll calls, Harrell voted against the majority of Georgia Senate Democrats 74 times.

1,406 roll calls Harrell could vote on in the GA 2025–26 session, compared with Georgia 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 Harrell voted with the majority of Georgia Senate Democrats. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

74

votes against the majority of Georgia Senate Democrats

Party unity 95.8%, Georgia Senate average 96.0%, ranks 39th of 54. 1,406 roll calls in the GA 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

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

80%100%
Harrell
Peers
Rank
Attendance
90.9%
92.2%
37th of 54
Party unity
95.8%
96.0%
39th of 54
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Harrell's attendance and party unity against Georgia Senate.
RowHarrellPeers
Attendance90.9%92.2%
Party unity95.8%96.0%
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 GA 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Jun 23, 2026
SB 3
Election Equipment Specifications and Standards Committee; establish
AGREE TO HOUSE SUBSTITUTE AS AMENDED
Did not vote—failD 19–0 · R 0–32Democrats 19 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 0 yea, 32 naybecame law
Jun 23, 2026
SB 3
Election Equipment Specifications and Standards Committee; establish
AGREE TO HOUSE SUBSTITUTE
Did not vote—passD 4–16 · R 32–0Democrats 4 yea, 16 nay; Republicans 32 yea, 0 naybecame law · party crossover
Jun 20, 2026
SB 1
Glynn County; ad valorem taxes; homestead property determined annually for the special district based upon the proceeds of a new Local Homestead Option Sales Tax (LHOST); provide homestead exemption
PASSAGE
NayWith majorityfailD 0–18 · R 33–0Democrats 0 yea, 18 nay; Republicans 33 yea, 0 naymuch discussed
Jun 20, 2026
SB 3
Election Equipment Specifications and Standards Committee; establish
PASSAGE AS AMENDED
NayWith majoritypassD 0–19 · R 33–0Democrats 0 yea, 19 nay; Republicans 33 yea, 0 naybecame law
Jun 20, 2026
SB 1
Glynn County; ad valorem taxes; homestead property determined annually for the special district based upon the proceeds of a new Local Homestead Option Sales Tax (LHOST); provide homestead exemption
LOCAL CONSENT CALENDAR
NayWith majorityfailD 0–18 · R 33–0Democrats 0 yea, 18 nay; Republicans 33 yea, 0 naymuch discussed
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 Harrell most often

  1. Jason EstevesD567 shared votes97%
  2. Doc RhettD1,217 shared votes97%
  3. Donzella JamesD1,078 shared votes97%
  4. Nan OrrockD1,176 shared votes97%
  5. Jaha HowardD642 shared votes96%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Harrell least often

  1. Steven McNeelR624 shared votes64%
  2. Jason DickersonR669 shared votes64%
  3. Greg DolezalR1,235 shared votes66%
  4. Bill CowsertR1,223 shared votes66%
  5. Angela MooreD598 shared votes66%
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

GA 2025–26 session, loads in batches

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

Harrell sponsored 330 bills in the GA 2025–26 session; 11 became law. Cosponsored 0 others. 69% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Georgia Senate average 77%; 44th of 53).

The bills Harrell sponsored and cosponsored in the GA 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 GA 2025–26 session

Sponsored330 billsSponsored, Introduced: 330330Sponsored, In committee: 330330Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 227227Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 1313Sponsored, Became law: 1111Cosponsored0 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 00Cosponsored, In committee: 00Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 00Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 00Cosponsored, Became law: 00IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Harrell sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored3303302271311
Cosponsored00000
How to read the blocks

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

69%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Georgia Senate average 77%. Ranks 44th of 53.

Cosponsorship partners

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

  1. Elena Parent183
  2. RaShaun Kemp171
  3. Nan Orrock168
  4. Kenya Wicks163
  5. Tonya Anderson157
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 Harrell’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 9Steves, Dr. Elma Mera; recognize and commendSponsorJun 20, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedSenate Read and Adopted Jun 22, 2026
SR 5Juneteenth; the history and meaning of the Juneteenth holiday; commemorate and recognizeSponsorJun 18, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedSenate Read and Adopted Jun 20, 2026
SR 1091Wright Jr., Daniel Waldon; condolencesSponsorMar 31, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedSenate Read and Adopted Apr 2, 2026
SR 1089Parent, Senator Elena; recognize and commendSponsorMar 31, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedSenate Read and Adopted Apr 2, 2026
SR 1087McCullom, Maggie; recognize and commendSponsorMar 31, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedSenate Read and Adopted Apr 2, 2026

Back to topNext: Online

Online

The lab crawls Harrell’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 Harrell 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.

Images Harrell posted

No images from Harrell’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

82 turns, Jan 16, 2020 to Jun 22, 2026

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 Harrell is most unusual among Georgia 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

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Open States
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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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