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Fishing

NAICS 1141 · 221 matched workers · high confidence

Democratic lean
57.7% Democratic, 42.3% Republican

Two-party shares across 221 workers in the Fishing industry.

57.7%
42.3%
DemocraticRepublican
Imputed
61.0% D · 39.0% R
Includes lean for unaffiliated registrants
Hierarchy
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting › Fishing
NAICS2 11 · NAICS4 1141
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Where Fishing falls

More Democratic than 71% of industries in Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting.

← DemocraticRepublican →Postharvest Crop Activities (except Cotton Ginning) — 47% DemocraticAll Other Miscellaneous Crop Farming — 72% DemocraticCorn Farming — 46% DemocraticDairy Cattle and Milk Production — 45% DemocraticOther Food Crops Grown Under Cover — 65% DemocraticOther Vegetable (except Potato) and Melon Farming — 51% DemocraticFruit and Tree Nut Combination Farming — 59% DemocraticFarm Management Services — 37% DemocraticOther Aquaculture — 79% DemocraticPoultry Hatcheries — 37% DemocraticBroilers and Other Meat Type Chicken Production — 47% DemocraticHunting and Trapping — 52% DemocraticAll Other Grain Farming — 55% DemocraticTurkey Production — 53% DemocraticOilseed and Grain Combination Farming — 31% DemocraticTree Nut Farming — 57% DemocraticOther Noncitrus Fruit Farming — 60% DemocraticSupport Activities for Animal Production — 49% DemocraticGoat Farming — 64% DemocraticApiculture — 45% DemocraticOther Poultry Production — 49% DemocraticOther Marine Fishing — 58% DemocraticCitrus (except Orange) Groves — 57% DemocraticHog and Pig Farming — 46% DemocraticSoil Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating — 53% DemocraticLogging — 36% DemocraticForest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products — 75% DemocraticFarm Labor Contractors and Crew Leaders — 62% DemocraticSoybean Farming — 33% DemocraticCotton Ginning — 57% DemocraticHay Farming — 30% DemocraticFloriculture Production — 51% DemocraticAll Other Animal Production — 32% DemocraticFishing — 58% Democratic0%25%50%75%100%
Each dot is one of the 33 other industries in Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting; 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