Get the Data

Download Bridge Grades data for the 119th Congress as CSV: House or Senate. Each file pulls from the latest snapshot and includes bioguide ID, name, chamber, state, district, party, Bridge Grade, Bridge Score, snapshot date, and a profile link.

Visit our Bridge Grades github repo to access our open source code and full documentation.

Our Data Sources

Legislative record data source: GovInfo.gov

Rhetoric data source: America’s Political Pulse* by Polarization Research Lab

Coalition bonus source: Problems Solver Caucus


Legislative record data source: congress.gov

District lean data source: The Cook Political Report
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Ideology score source: VoteView

*Westwood, S. J., & Lelkes, Y. (2024). America's Political Pulse [Data set]. https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/data

** To learn more about the analysis behind the district lean ratings (and Cook PVI in general), please subscribe to The Cook Political Report.