Republican · Senate · KY
Rand Paul
Placed from the roll-call score. Bioguide P000603.
Rand Paul is the Republican senator for the Senate from KY 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 0.878, drawn as economics +88. That is right of center on economics. The second dimension is -0.479, drawn as authority -48. 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 97 of 100 from the left. The first-dimension score is right of the Republican median in this chamber (0.56). The nearest other Senate scores are Mike Lee (Republican, 0.891), Tommy Tuberville (Republican, 0.936), Josh Hawley (Republican, 0.820). Those names are neighbors on the scale, not a slate.
A short public-record note says: Kentucky Republican. Libertarian on war, surveillance, and spending; less so on some social questions. The score is the placement. The sentence only names what the record is already known for.
One left-to-right score cannot say how Rand Paul would vote on a single bill. The identity and the vote file can be checked at congress.gov through bioguide P000603.