Cindy Hyde-Smith

RepublicanState R+11119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score53#32 of 100 senators across tracked bills

Contact Cindy Hyde-Smith’s office

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

Call office 202-224-5054 Send a message

Washington, D.C. office

528 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510

hydesmith.senate.gov

Model

v3defaultv2

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 890 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: S. 237, S. 1467, S. 4189.

Keeps them with Republicans · 1 signal

Medium
Votes with Senate RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.451 (party median +0.558; rank 16 of 53 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 81 (avg 88); LCV 0 (avg 3).

Bill-specific inputsVotes on similar past bills and committee seats vary by bill, so they appear in the swing-v3 scores below rather than here.

Term and election

From the congress-legislators dataset

On the ballot 2026

Current term: January 3, 2021 – January 3, 2027
Senate class: Class 2
Seniority: Junior senator
Next election: November 3, 2026
Years in office: 8.5 years

Committees

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

Joint Committee of Congress on the Library
Majority · 3rd in seniority
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Majority · 5th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Commodities, Derivatives, Risk Management, and TradeChairman
- Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology
- Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, and Food Safety

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

R median

D median

Hyde-Smith

← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →

Their score of +0.451 is 0.11 to the left of the Senate Republican median (+0.558).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the Senate Republican average

119th Congress81
Senate Republican average: 88 (n=53)

Swing score by bill

swing-v2, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Swing score for Cindy Hyde-Smith on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 22SAVE ActSummary on Congress.gov	No position yet	53	Middle
S. 5521Ukrainian Adjustment Act of 2026Summary on Congress.gov