# Mike Nemes

Mike Nemes is a Republican member of the Kentucky Senate for district 38.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Kentucky Senate, district 38
- Serving since: 2020-01-28
- Current term: KY 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/230c230d-7313-4a94-8eb3-60f57a86543c

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/230c230d-7313-4a94-8eb3-60f57a86543c (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

100% of Nemes’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Kentucky, in the top quarter of State Senate Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.44 (standard error 0.03), from 174 donors and 315 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 62% of State Senate Republicans score lower.

## Votes (KY 2025–26 session)

702 roll calls. Attendance 99.4% (Kentucky Senate 97.0%). Party unity 94.8% (95.3%). 11 votes against the party majority.

Key votes:

- 2025-03-28 · voted yea · PASS HB 664 W/ scs1 sfa2 sfta2 · HB 664 AN ACT relating to the operation of a motor vehicle and declaring an emergency. · pass · https://openstates.org/ky/bills/2025RS/HB664/
- 2025-03-28 · voted yea · Final Passage · HB 48 AN ACT relating to education. · pass · https://openstates.org/ky/bills/2025RS/HB48/
- 2025-03-28 · voted yea · Pass · SB 181 AN ACT relating to children. · pass · https://openstates.org/ky/bills/2025RS/SB181/
- 2025-03-28 · voted yea · Final Passage · SJR 55 A JOINT RESOLUTION directing Kentucky's public postsecondary institutions to combat antisemitism. · pass · https://openstates.org/ky/bills/2025RS/SJR55/
- 2025-03-28 · voted yea · Final Passage HB 622 W/ fccr1 · HB 622 AN ACT relating to fiscal matters and declaring an emergency. · pass · https://openstates.org/ky/bills/2025RS/HB622/
- 2025-03-28 · voted yea · Final Passage · HB 437 AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages. · pass · https://openstates.org/ky/bills/2025RS/HB437/
- 2025-03-28 · voted yea · PASS HCR 22 · HCR 22 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION declaring that nuclear power generation is a clean and dispatchable means of providing baseload electricity to the residents… · pass · https://openstates.org/ky/bills/2025RS/HCR22/
- 2025-03-28 · voted yea · Final Passage · HB 555 AN ACT relating to local government financial practices. · pass · https://openstates.org/ky/bills/2025RS/HB555/
- 2025-03-28 · voted yea · Final Passage · HB 618 AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages. · pass · https://openstates.org/ky/bills/2025RS/HB618/
- 2025-03-28 · voted yea · Final Passage · HB 622 AN ACT relating to fiscal matters and declaring an emergency. · pass · https://openstates.org/ky/bills/2025RS/HB622/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $44.2K (State Senate Republicans median $46.2K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://legislature.ky.gov/Legislators/Pages/Legislator-Profile.aspx?DistrictNumber=138
- Campaign site: https://mikenemes.com/
- X: https://x.com/mikenemes38
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mike.nemes

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/230c230d-7313-4a94-8eb3-60f57a86543c