What Issues Have The Most Party Unity?

Members of the same party usually vote together in the General Assembly, but breaking out votes by topic highlights that some issues had more consensus than others among caucus members. For more details, select a legislator, and click through to see the individual votes where they sided against the majority of their party in the 2025 session.

Note on VPAP's Party Unity Score: The chart below measures how often caucus members vote with the majority of their party on floor votes where at least two-thirds of the caucus took the same position, but the vote was not unanimous for the caucus. Excludes issues with fewer than five bills meeting this criteria. The party unity score should not be interpreted as a partisan litmus test. A nuanced reading of the bills involved is needed to reach any conclusions.

Notes: Del. Danny Marshall is excluded above since he was unable to attend floor votes this session, and therefore does not have votes included in the official count. Record of how we intended to vote on select bills was submitted to the House Clerk's office and is available in vote descriptions for some bills.

Update 2/27/25 at 10:00 AM: VPAP was made aware of a block vote that occurred on January 30, 2025 in the Senate in which one Senator mistakenly voted against all the others. In an effort to make this visual more accurate we removed that block vote since it was now unanimous. Removing this block affected many of the Senators' scores from what was originally published.

Sources: Virginia Legislative Information Service and VPAP Analysis.