# Lyman Hoffman

Lyman Hoffman is a Democratic member of the Alaska Senate for district S.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Alaska Senate, district S
- Serving since: 1995-01-16
- Current term: AK 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/e187d603-9202-4f64-80b0-6366702aec11

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/e187d603-9202-4f64-80b0-6366702aec11 (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

Hoffman sits at −0.04 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 99% of State Senate Democrats.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.04 (standard error 0.10), from 11 donors and 0 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 99% of State Senate Democrats score lower.

## Legislation (AK 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 2 bills: 2 reached committee, 0 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 3.

Recent sponsored bills:

- SB 269: An Act restructuring the Board of Fisheries; and providing for an effective date. (in committee, 2026-03-27) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/34/SB269/
- SB 109: An Act relating to the Alaska permanent fund; relating to income of the Alaska permanent fund; relating to the amount available for appropriation and… (in committee, 2025-03-06) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/34/SB109/
- SB 141: An Act naming the Raymond and Esther Conquest Bridge. (passed one chamber, 2024-05-09) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/33/SB141/
- SB 140: An Act relating to funding for Internet services for school districts; relating to charter schools; relating to transportation of public school students;… (passed both chambers, 2024-03-20) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/33/SB140/
- SB 227: An Act relating to use of income of the Alaska permanent fund; relating to the amount of the permanent fund dividend; relating to the duties of the… (in committee, 2020-02-24) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/31/SB227/
- SB 220: An Act relating to the reporting of certain information relating to commercially harvested fishery resources; relating to the delegation of authority to fish… (in committee, 2020-02-24) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/31/SB220/
- SB 91: An Act relating to the development and operation of a hydroelectric site at the Nuyakuk River Falls; providing for the amendment of the management plan for… (became law, 2019-10-23) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/31/SB91/
- SB 74: An Act relating to funding for Internet services for school districts. (became law, 2020-05-19) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/31/SB74/

## Campaign money (2022 cycle)

Itemized receipts $17.6K (State Senate Democrats median $64.8K). 91% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://akleg.gov/legislator.php?id=hof
- Campaign site: https://www.senatorlymanhoffman.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lyman.hoffman
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lymanhoffman/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyman-hoffman-8291a536/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/e187d603-9202-4f64-80b0-6366702aec11