Here are the 50 legislatures ranked from most to least conservative

A new report from the Center for Legislative Accountability (CLA) has ranked all 50 states from most to least conservative, with Alabama leading as the most conservative state in the U.S. and Massachusetts as the least conservative.

The rankings from CLA, a project of the Conservative Political Action Committee and the American Conservative Union, are based on the conservative voting records of lawmakers across 186 policy categories in 2021.

For example, Alabama lawmakers voted last year with a conservative position at the highest rate, or 74 percent of the time. Massachusetts lawmakers voted with the conservative position just 15 percent of the time, the lowest rate.

Overall, the nation has grown more polarized, according to the CLA finding.

The 3,906 Republican state lawmakers in the U.S. voted conservative 80.8 percent of the time in 2021, up from 76.4 percent in 2020.

The 3,223 Democratic state lawmakers voted conservative 15.9 percent of the time, down from 18.7 percent in 2020.

Here are the states ranked from most to least conservative.

Top 25 most conservative

  1. Alabama

  2. Tennessee

  3. Indiana

  4. South Dakota

  5. Arkansas

  6. Florida

  7. Idaho

  8. Wyoming

  9. Iowa

  10. West Virginia

  11. Oklahoma

  12. Ohio

  13. Mississippi

  14. Kentucky

  15. North Carolina

  16. Georgia

  17. North Dakota

  18. Kansas

  19. Utah

  20. Louisiana

  21. Missouri

  22. Nebraska

  23. Wisconsin

  24. Montana

  25. Michigan

Top 25 least conservative

  1. Massachusetts

  2. Hawaii

  3. Rhode Island

  4. California

  5. Maryland

  6. Vermont

  7. New York

  8. New Jersey

  9. Connecticut

  10. Oregon

  11. Nevada

  12. Colorado

  13. Delaware

  14. New Mexico

  15. Illinois

  16. Washington

  17. Maine

  18. Minnesota

  19. Virginia

  20. Alaska

  21. New Hampshire

  22. Arizona

  23. Pennsylvania

  24. South Carolina

  25. Texas

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