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Electric Power Distribution

NAICS 221122 · 40,434 matched workers · high confidence

Roughly balanced
50.4% Democratic, 49.6% Republican

Two-party shares across 40,434 workers in the Electric Power Distribution industry.

50.4%
49.6%
DemocraticRepublican
Imputed
50.2% D · 49.8% R
Includes lean for unaffiliated registrants
Hierarchy
Utilities › Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution
NAICS2 22 · NAICS4 2211
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Where Electric Power Distribution falls

Near the middle of industries in Utilities (57th percentile).

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Each dot is one of the 13 other industries in Utilities; size scales by workforce. Hover to see names — click to jump.

How this is measured

VRscores estimate the partisan composition of an industry by linking voter registration records to employment profiles, then aggregating workers up the NAICS hierarchy. The two-party shares above exclude workers with no major-party affiliation.

Read the full methodology or the published Organization Science paper.

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Citation

Kagan, Max; Frake, Justin; Hurst, Reuben (2026). “VRscores: A New Measure and Data Set of Workforce Politics Using Voter Registrations.” Organization Science, 37(2), 444–465.
https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2025.20402