Mitch McConnell
Republican · KY · U.S. Senate
Mitch McConnell is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026. Charles Booker vs. Andy Barr.
R +20 points of win probability since September.
Bio
Addison Mitchell McConnell III is an American politician and attorney who has been a United States senator from Kentucky since 1985 and has been Kentucky's senior U.S. senator since 1999. A member of the Republican Party, McConnell is in his seventh Senate term, making him the longest-serving senator in Kentucky history. He led the Senate Republican Conference from 2007 to 2025, serving once as majority leader (2015–2021) and twice as minority leader, making him the longest-serving Senate party leader in U.S. history.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 41.7 years
- First took office
- 1985 (7 terms)
- Seniority
- 6 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 84
- Senate class
- 2 · senior senator
- Senate Minority Leader · 2007–2015
- Senate Majority Leader · 2015–2021
- Senate Minority Leader · 2021–2025
- Bowling Green, KY · 270-781-1673
- Fort Wright, KY · 859-578-0188
- Lexington, KY · 859-224-8286
- London, KY · 606-864-2026
- Louisville, KY · 502-582-6304
- Paducah, KY · 270-442-4554
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Mitch McConnell's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Mitch McConnell (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
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Committees
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestrycenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Appropriationscenter · 28 membersEnergy and Water DevelopmentDepartment of Interior, Environment, and Related AgenciesMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related AgenciesState, Foreign Operations, and Related ProgramsAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related AgenciesDepartment of Defense (Chairman)
Most and least aligned members
Treating McConnell's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
GOP Senator Has Meltdown Over Mitch McConnell On-Air as He's Urged to Tell Ailing Republican to 'Step Down'A Republican senator pushed back on-air after being urged to tell Mitch McConnell to step down amid questions about the longtime senator's future.
Radaronline.com · October 7, 2026
SNL Cold Open Goes Full MAGA Midterms Desperation With Hegseth’s “Schlong Donkeys,” Trump’s Rambles & A Sad VPJust a month away from the volatile midterms and a president way down in the polls, there was once again a plethora of political material ripe for this week’s SNL cold open, and the NBC late-nighter went full MAGA, with some Mitch McConnell on the side. Playe…
Deadline · October 4, 2026
Who is on the ballot in the 2026 midterms? All 435 U.S. House seats are up for election on November 3, plus Senate and Governor races tooThe 2026 midterm elections will take place on November 3, involving all 435 House seats and multiple Senate races. Several prominent senators, including Mitch McConnell, will be retiring, creating open-seat contests across states. Key battlegrounds include Ke…
The Times of India · October 2, 2026
Trump Throws A Profanity-Laced Fit Because Nobody Is Praising Him EnoughDonald J. Trump turned a question about Mitch McConnell into yet another complaint about the press during a recent interview with TIME magazine. Trump was asked whether he had seen recent footage of McConnell and whether the longtime Kentucky senator should s…
Crooksandliars.com · October 2, 2026
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