Democrat · House · SC
James E. Clyburn
Placed from the roll-call score. Bioguide C000537.
James E. Clyburn is the Democrat representative for the House from SC, district 6 in the 119th Congress. The chart uses the October 2026 snapshot. The position is Voteview’s DW-NOMINATE score of the roll calls. Color is the party label. The place is the votes.
The first dimension is -0.466, drawn as economics -47. That is left of center on economics. The second dimension is 0.248, drawn as authority +25. The other axis sits toward authority. Voteview’s second dimension is not a pure social axis. The chart uses the public file anyway, rather than inventing a different number.
Inside the House, this first-dimension score ranks 47 of 433 from the left. The first-dimension score is left of the Democrat median in this chamber (-0.39). The nearest other House scores are Al Green (Democrat, -0.448), James R. Walkinshaw (Democrat, -0.428), Wesley Bell (Democrat, -0.455). Those names are neighbors on the scale, not a slate.
A short public-record note says: South Carolina Democrat. Former whip, a kingmaker in the 2020 Democratic primary. The score is the placement. The sentence only names what the record is already known for.
One left-to-right score cannot say how James E. Clyburn would vote on a single bill. The identity and the vote file can be checked at congress.gov through bioguide C000537.