A nonpartisan public scorecard for legislators at every level of government.
GovScorecard turns the public record of your bills and committee work into a clear profile anyone can compare, free for the public to read and free for you to claim.
The five-minute survey helps shape our nationwide scoring model and keeps it fair to legislators of every party.
Sample preview
A sample scorecard.
It's built the way your own profile will be, from the public record, though the numbers here are made up.
First Elected
2018
Years in Office
7
Termed Out
2030
Next Election
2026
Legislator A
State Senate
Senator, District 12
Party Affiliation: Independent
Once you claim your profile, this is where you tell your own story: how you approach the job, what you're working on, and notes to the people you represent, right beside the public record.
Legislative record
Passage rate
Senate average
We haven't built this part yet, but it shows where profiles are headed.
Engagement Scores
Legislator Response Time
Town Hall Frequency
Constituent Engagement
District Sentiment
From Legislator...
Once you claim your profile, this space is yours for your priorities, answers to questions from your district, and anything you'd like to add to the record in your own words.
Submit Interaction
People in your district will be able to log meetings, town halls and conversations with you, so the record shows the work that happens outside the chamber, too.
Community Impact & Alignment Scores Coming 2027
Top Issues in your district
Education
Top-ranked concern in district polling and town-hall comments.
Infrastructure
Roads, broadband, and water investment lead local survey responses.
Public Safety
Steady focus across rural and urban precincts in the district.
Alignment Scores
Alignment Score
Dollars brought back to your district
Recent Bills Sample
On a real profile, every bill you've sponsored or co-sponsored is listed here, and anyone can narrow the list by year, status or committee.
Public School Broadband Expansion Act
Year: 2025
Bill number: Sample-25-100
Status: Passed
Committee: Education
Funds last-mile broadband infrastructure for K–12 districts in rural counties; allocates matching grants for digital learning tools.
Small Business Permit Modernization
Year: 2025
Bill number: Sample-25-200
Status: In Committee
Committee: Commerce
Consolidates twelve overlapping small-business permits into a single online filing and reduces review timelines from 90 to 30 days.
Veterans Mental Health Access Bill
Year: 2024
Bill number: Sample-24-100
Status: Adopted
Committee: Health
Expands telehealth mental-health coverage for state veterans and creates a 24-hour peer-support hotline staffed by trained veterans.
How we score
Every score traces back to the public record.
Public record only
Your bills, how each one fared and your committee assignments come from your chamber's official records, with no editorial summaries or advocacy groups' ratings mixed in.
Nonpartisan by design
Every score measures what you've done in office and leaves ideology out of it, and each one is explained on our How we score page.
Shaped by legislators
Our survey asks legislators what should count and what shouldn't, and their answers help decide what the scores measure.
Rollout timeline
All fifty states on day one, with more to follow in 2027.
- 1
October 23, 2026
Version 0: nationwide
Public profiles for every state legislator and member of Congress, drawn from the public record. Legislators can ask to claim theirs.
- 2
Spring 2027
Version 1
City and county officials join, starting with the hundred largest cities and counties in the country.
- 3
Fall 2027
Version 2
Engagement and community scores: how officials stay in touch with the people they serve, and how their work matches what their district cares about.
Help shape how legislators are scored.
Claim your profile so the public sees the whole of your work, and take the survey to help shape the scoring model itself.
If you have questions, write to us and we'll walk you through it.