By Meg Hansen

The voting of Vermont’s state lawmakers has placed the legislature as the 5th most liberal in America according to a new 50 state analysis conducted by the Center for Legislative Accountability (CLA), a project of CPAC Foundation and the American Conservative Union Foundation.

The Vermont Statehouse

In CPAC’s analysis of all 7,400 state lawmakers in America, the Vermont Legislature earned a conservative rating of 26%, tying New York and Maryland, and trailing only Hawaii (23%), Rhode Island (20%), and Massachusetts (15%) as most liberal in America.

Only 3 Vermont Republican lawmakers earned CPAC’s highest Award for Conservative Excellence (90% and above conservative ratings), and 23 earned the Award for Conservative Achievement (80-89% conservative ratings). An astounding 95 lawmakers earned CPAC’s “Coalition of the Radical Left” award for conservative ratings of 10% or below. The conservative rating is calculated through CPAC’s scorecards and is based on lawmaker voting across 186 policy areas ranging from cultural and life issues to tax, fiscal, and regulatory policies. Each year the CLA tallies over 260,000 votes to generate the scores.

RELATED: Vermont Scorecard

Coalition of the Radical Left Award
(Conservative Ratings of 10% and below)

Jane Kitchel (7%)
Warren Kitzmiller (7%)
Dick Sears (7%)
Tristan Toleno (7%)
David Yacovone (7%)
Janet Ancel (6%)
Sarah Austin (6%)
John Bartholomew (6%)
Alyssa Black (6%)
Tiffany Bluemle (6%)
Michelle Bos-Lun (6%)
Erin Brady (6%)
Timothy Briglin (6%)
Jana Brown (6%)
Jessica Brumsted (6%)
Scott Campbell (6%)
Kevin Christie (6%)
Harold Colston (6%)
Peter Conlon (6%)
Sarah Copeland-Hanzas (6%)
Karen Dolan (6%)
Katherine Dolan (6%)
David Durfee (6%)
Caleb Elder (6%)
Alice Emmons (6%)
Leslie Goldman (6%)
Maxine Grad (6%)
Mary Hooper (6%)
Lori Houghton (6%)
Kathleen James (6%)
Kimberly Jessup (6%)
John Killacky (6%)
Emilie Kornheiser (6%)
Martin LaLonde (6%)
Diane Lanpher (6%)
William Lippert (6%)
Emily Long (6%)
James Masland (6%)
Michael McCarthy (6%)
Michael Mrowicki (6%)
Michael Nigro (6%)
William Notte (6%)
John O’Brien (6%)
Carol Ode (6%)
Carolyn Partridge (6%)
Avram Patt (6%)
Ann Pugh (6%)
Barbara Rachelson (6%)
Marybeth Redmond (6%)
Robin Scheu (6%)
Amy Sheldon (6%)
Trevor Squirrell (6%)
Gabrielle Stebbins (6%)
Thomas Stevens (6%)
Heather Surprenant (6%)
Curt Taylor (6%)
Maida Townsend (6%)
Joseph Troiano (6%)
Tommy Walz (6%)
Kathryn Webb (6%)
Rebecca White (6%)
Dane Whitman (6%)
Peter Anthony (0%)
Becca Balint (0%)
Philip Baruth (0%)
Christopher Bray (0%)
Mollie Burke (0%)
Elizabeth Burrows (0%)
Brian Campion (0%)
Seth Chase (0%)
Brian Cina (0%)
Alison Clarkson (0%)
Selene Colburn (0%)
Mari Cordes (0%)
Ann Cummings (0%)
Ruth Hardy (0%)
Cheryl Hooker (0%)
Jay Hooper (0%)
Robert Hooper (0%)
Mary Howard (0%)
Virginia Lyons (0%)
Mark MacDonald (0%)
Dick McCormack (0%)
James McCullough (0%)
Emma Mulvaney-Stanak (0%)
Logan Nicoll (0%)
Christopher Pearson (0%)
Andrew Perchlik (0%)
Anthony Pollina (0%)
Kesha Ram (0%)
Larry Satcowitz (0%)
Michael Sirotkin (0%)
Taylor Small (0%)
Tanya Vyhovsky (0%)
Michael Yantachka (0%)

Meg Hansen is president of the Ethan Allen Institute, a policy research and educational nonprofit organization in Vermont.