Democrat · Senate · OR
Jeff Merkley
Placed from the roll-call score. Bioguide M001176.
Jeff Merkley is the Democrat senator for the Senate from OR 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 -0.453, drawn as economics -45. That is left of center on economics. The second dimension is -0.712, drawn as authority -71. The other axis sits toward liberty. 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 Senate, this first-dimension score ranks 9 of 100 from the left. The first-dimension score is left of the Democrat median in this chamber (-0.36). The nearest other Senate scores are Edward J. Markey (Democrat, -0.518), Ron Wyden (Democrat, -0.335), Bernard Sanders (Independent, -0.546). Those names are neighbors on the scale, not a slate.
The member’s official site (https://www.merkley.senate.gov), under “Appropriations Disclosures,” says: “Pursuant to Senate Policy , petitions, opinion polls and unsolicited mass electronic communications cannot be initiated by this office for the 60-day…” Those are the member’s words. They are not the same thing as the roll-call score.
One left-to-right score cannot say how Jeff Merkley would vote on a single bill. The identity and the vote file can be checked at congress.gov through bioguide M001176.