WHY
Does Sanford Bishop's voting align with their donors?
Correlation summary
A moderate correlation between donor sector funding and voting alignment, based on 10 sectors with sufficient data.
- Peer average
- 35.6%
- Percentile rank
- 50th
Methodology
Correlation between campaign donor sectors and voting alignment on sector-relevant bills. Bills classified by AI-generated affectedIndustries or policy-area-map fallback. Spearman rank correlation across sectors with 10+ votes.
This analysis shows factual patterns in public data. Campaign contributions are legal and do not indicate wrongdoing. Voting alignment with donor industries is common across all legislators. Correlation does not indicate causation or improper behavior.
- Confidence
- 80%
- Data as of
- Mar 26, 2026
Sector alignment
- Defense58.8% aligned$0
34 bills analyzed
- Labor57.1% aligned$63K
14 bills analyzed
- Construction41.2% aligned$0
34 bills analyzed
- Ideology/Single-Issue38.5% aligned$13K
26 bills analyzed
- Agribusiness33.3% aligned$145K
12 bills analyzed
- Health33.3% aligned$43K
12 bills analyzed
- Energy/Natural Resources27.3% aligned$25K
66 bills analyzed
- Communications/Electronics20.0% aligned$125K
10 bills analyzed
- Finance/Insurance/Real Estate17.6% aligned$75K
34 bills analyzed
- Lawyers & Lobbyists12.5% aligned$123K
16 bills analyzed
Campaign finance data from FEC.gov. Voting records from Congress.gov. Full methodology