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Radio Broadcasting Stations

NAICS 516110 · 7,916 matched workers · high confidence

Strong Democratic lean
63.2% Democratic, 36.8% Republican

Two-party shares across 7,916 workers in the Radio Broadcasting Stations industry.

63.2%
36.8%
DemocraticRepublican
Imputed
63.9% D · 36.1% R
Includes lean for unaffiliated registrants
Hierarchy
Information › Radio and Television Broadcasting Stations
NAICS2 51 · NAICS4 5161
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Where Radio Broadcasting Stations falls

More Republican than 69% of industries in Information.

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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