James Lankford

RepublicanState R+17119th Congress

Typical swing score22#97 of 100 senators across tracked bills

Contact James Lankford’s office

Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators dataset

Call office 202-224-5754 Send a message

Washington, D.C. office

731 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510

lankford.senate.gov

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

Signals to watch

What in this member’s state, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.

Could pull them toward Democrats · 1 signal

Strong
Backs 3 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 3 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: S. 315, S. 861, S. 2542.

Keeps them with Republicans · 2 signals

Medium
Votes with Senate RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.589 (party median +0.558; rank 33 of 53 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 96 (avg 88); LCV 0 (avg 3).
Medium
Safe Republican state: Oklahoma is R+17Oklahoma has a partisan lean of R+17 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.

Bill-specific inputs

Term and election

From the congress-legislators dataset

Current term: January 3, 2023 – January 3, 2029
Senate class: Class 3
Seniority: Senior senator
Next election: November 7, 2028
Years in office: 15.8 years

Committees

Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3

Senate Select Committee on EthicsChairman
Majority · 1st in seniority
Senate Committee on Finance
Majority · 7th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Health Care
- Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight
- Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and InfrastructureChairman

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

R median

D median

Lankford

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Their score of +0.589 is 0.03 to the right of the Senate Republican median (+0.558).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the Senate Republican average

119th Congress96
Senate Republican average: 88 (n=53)

Swing score by bill

swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Showing 101–150 of 845 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for James Lankford on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 1431To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2407 State Route 71, Suite 1, in Spring Lake, New Jersey, as the "James J. Howard Post Office".Summary on Congress.gov	No position yet	27 Broke with party on 2% of 13 similar votes Sits on a committee of referral	Entrenched
H.R. 1706To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1200 William Street, Room 200, in Buffalo, New York, as the "William J. Donovan Post Office Building".