Party unity 93.6%, in the bottom quarter of the Tennessee Senate (average 95.3%). 4,200 roll calls in the TN 2025–26 session.
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 Gardenhire voted with the majority of Tennessee Senate Republicans; it is ranked within the Tennessee Senate. The count covers every roll call where Gardenhire voted opposite that majority.
At a glance
6 measures against the Tennessee Senate. 100% of Gardenhire’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Tennessee, in the top quarter of State Senate Republicans. Gardenhire sits at +0.18 on the CSIP scale, more liberal than 76% of State Senate Republicans.
The measures on which Gardenhire sits furthest from the middle of the Tennessee Senate, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.
Party unity
Tennessee Senate average 95.3% · ranks 30th of 33 · 41 votes against the majority of Tennessee Senate Republicans
From Tennessee, 2026
Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 136th of 860 State Senate Republicans
CSIP ideology
More liberal than 76% of State Senate Republicans · ± 0.04
Out of committee
Tennessee Senate average 70% · ranks 20th of 33
Itemized, 2026
State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K · ranks 403rd of 936
Attendance
Tennessee Senate average 99.6% · ranks 16th of 33 · 4,200 roll calls
Peer group: Tennessee Senate. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Gardenhire, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Gardenhire is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
What Gardenhire says
No statements for the TN 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.
Policy
No policy statements for the TN 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.
Ideology
Gardenhire sits at +0.18 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more liberal than 76% of State Senate Republicans. Approximate range +0.14 to +0.21, which understates the uncertainty; from 193 donors and 1,092 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”.
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range +0.14 to +0.21. From 193 donors and 1,092 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Gardenhire, 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 Gardenhire’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 Gardenhire sits
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
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| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Gardenhire |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Senate Republicans | 1083 | +0.4 | 24% |
| Tennessee Senate | 33 | +0.3 | 24% |
| All State Senate | 1909 | +0.1 | 56% |
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 Gardenhire 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 Gardenhire.
Money
Gardenhire reported $66.7K in the 2026 cycle, above the State Senate Republicans’ median of $46.2K. State filings report no small-donation total. 100% of itemized individual money came from Tennessee.
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.
itemized in the 2026 cycle
From 14 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.
- Individuals (itemized)16 squares$10.8K
- PACs and other committees84 squares$55.9K
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| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals (itemized) | $10.8K | 16.1% |
| PACs and other committees | $55.9K | 83.9% |
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.
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| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2020 cycle | $385.3K |
| 2022 cycle | $70.6K |
| 2024 cycle | $330.1K |
| 2026 cycle | $66.7K |
Top donor states, 2026
Itemized contributions by donor state. 100% came from Tennessee.
- Tennessee$10.8K
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
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| State | Value |
|---|---|
| Tennessee | $10.8K |
| Alaska | No data |
| Maine | No data |
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| New Hampshire | No data |
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itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
from Tennessee
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 Tennessee. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.
Top donor occupations
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
- BUSINESS OWNER$4,500 3 donors
- ATTORNEY$2,600 7 donors
Top committees
PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.
- TOTAL WINE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$5,000
- WSWT POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$5,000
- AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC$2,500
- BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF TN PAC$2,500
- TENNESSEE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY PAC$2,500
Top employers
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
- WOLFTEVER MGMT LLC$4,500 3 donors
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Votes
Gardenhire voted with the majority of Tennessee Senate Republicans on 93.6% of party-line votes and missed none of 4,200 roll calls. Tennessee Senate on average: 95.3% party unity, 99.6% attendance. Across all roll calls, Gardenhire voted against the majority of Tennessee Senate Republicans 41 times.
4,200 roll calls Gardenhire could vote on in the TN 2025–26 session, compared with Tennessee 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 Gardenhire voted with the majority of Tennessee Senate Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
votes against the majority of Tennessee Senate Republicans
Party unity 93.6%, Tennessee Senate average 95.3%, ranks 30th of 33. 4,200 roll calls in the TN 2025–26 session.
Attendance and party unity
The thick bar is Gardenhire, the thin grey bar the Tennessee Senate average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.
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| Row | Gardenhire | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 99.9% | 99.6% |
| Party unity | 93.6% | 95.3% |
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 TN 2025–26 session
| Party split (yea–nay) | Why it’s key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 2026 | HJR 1530 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jordyn Brown, Salutatorian, Gordonsville High School - FLOOR VOTE: Motion to Adopt 4/23/2026 Passed | Yea | With majority | pass | D 6–0 · R 27–0Democrats 6 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 27 yea, 0 nay | became law |
| Apr 23, 2026 | SJR 1267 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Liya Rakeshbhai Patel, Valedictorian, Cumberland County High School - FLOOR VOTE: Motion to Adopt 4/23/2026 Passed | Yea | With majority | pass | D 5–0 · R 27–0Democrats 5 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 27 yea, 0 nay | became law |
| Apr 23, 2026 | HB 2585 Damages - As introduced, states that the amount of damages awarded as noneconomic damages must not exceed $1 million in a health care liability action arising from obstetric or maternity negligence resulting in the death or permanent injury of a pregnant or postpartum woman. - Amends TCA Section 29- FLOOR VOTE: Third Consideration 4/23/2026 Failed | Nay | With majority | fail | D 6–0 · R 6–19Democrats 6 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 6 yea, 19 nay | party crossover |
| Apr 23, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 5–0 · R 27–0Democrats 5 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 27 yea, 0 nay | became law | |
| Apr 23, 2026 | SJR 1268 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Nicolo Azzani, Salutatorian, Cumberland County High School - FLOOR VOTE: Motion to Adopt 4/23/2026 Passed | Yea | With majority | pass | D 5–0 · R 27–0Democrats 5 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 27 yea, 0 nay | became 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 Gardenhire most often
- Shane ReevesR4,170 shared votes99%
- Paul RoseR4,076 shared votes99%
- Jack JohnsonR4,158 shared votes99%
- Dawn WhiteR4,148 shared votes99%
- Ferrell HaileR4,131 shared votes99%
Votes least often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as Gardenhire least often
- Heidi CampbellD3,918 shared votes92%
- Charlane OliverD3,774 shared votes93%
- Sara KyleD3,750 shared votes93%
- Jeff YarbroD3,634 shared votes93%
- London LamarD3,418 shared votes93%
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
TN 2025–26 session, loads in batches
Legislation
Gardenhire sponsored 85 bills in the TN 2025–26 session; 22 became law. Cosponsored 0 others. 71% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Tennessee Senate average 70%; 20th of 33).
The bills Gardenhire sponsored and cosponsored in the TN 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 TN 2025–26 session
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| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 85 | 84 | 41 | 24 | 22 |
| Cosponsored | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
How to read the blocks
Ink blocks are bills Gardenhire sponsored, ochre blocks bills Gardenhire cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
of sponsored bills got out of committee
Tennessee Senate average 70%. Ranks 20th of 33.
Cosponsorship partners
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Gardenhire, by number of shared bills in the TN 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.
No cosponsorship ties in this window.
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 Gardenhire’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Bill list
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| SR 400 | Memorials, Recognition - Kori Atkins, 2026 Boys & Girls Club of Chattanooga Youth of the Year - | Sponsor | Apr 8, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Enrolled and ready for signatures Apr 17, 2026 |
| SR 365 | Memorials, Recognition - Old Church Building, 100th anniversary - | Sponsor | Apr 1, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Adopted, Ayes 33, Nays 0 Apr 9, 2026 |
| SJR 952 | Memorials, Interns - Alitrise Renate Soderstrom Theodoriches - | Sponsor | Mar 17, 2026 | Became law | Unassigned | Signed by Governor. Apr 16, 2026 |
| SJR 891 | Memorials, Recognition - 251st anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord - | Sponsor | Mar 3, 2026 | Became law | Unassigned | Signed by Governor. Mar 25, 2026 |
| SJR 706 | Memorials, Recognition - Junior Lee Hankins - | Sponsor | Feb 10, 2026 | Became law | Unassigned | Signed by Governor. Mar 18, 2026 |
Online
A site that changed 1 time in 90 days. Gardenhire’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Gardenhire’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 Gardenhire posts with a vision model.
Websites
Official site
wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/legislatorinfo/member.aspx?district=S10Last crawled Oct 1, 2026
1pages crawled
1changes in 90 days
- 0
pages crawled
0changes in 90 days
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
Images Gardenhire posted
No images from Gardenhire’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.
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 Gardenhire is most unusual among Tennessee 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
- d5d2e89a-5467-4f69-a77d-70caaa351086
- Open States
- ocd-person/d5d2e89a-5467-4f69-a77d-70caaa351086
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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