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Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

NAICS 5231 · 88,805 matched workers · high confidence

Roughly balanced
54.0% Democratic, 46.0% Republican

Two-party shares across 88,805 workers in the Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage industry.

54.0%
46.0%
DemocraticRepublican
Imputed
56.6% D · 43.4% R
Includes lean for unaffiliated registrants
Hierarchy
Finance and Insurance › Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage
NAICS2 52 · NAICS4 5231
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Where Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage falls

More Republican than 69% of industries in Finance and Insurance.

← DemocraticRepublican →Commercial Banking — 56% DemocraticPortfolio Management and Investment Advice — 53% DemocraticDirect Health and Medical Insurance Carriers — 59% DemocraticOther Direct Insurance (except Life, Health, and Medical) Carriers — 55% DemocraticInsurance Agencies and Brokerages — 50% DemocraticDirect Property and Casualty Insurance Carriers — 52% DemocraticDirect Life Insurance Carriers — 53% DemocraticInvestment Banking and Securities Intermediation — 54% DemocraticMiscellaneous Financial Investment Activities — 56% DemocraticMortgage and Nonmortgage Loan Brokers — 51% DemocraticFinancial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities — 60% DemocraticCredit Unions — 55% DemocraticMiscellaneous Intermediation — 61% DemocraticSavings Institutions and Other Depository Credit Intermediation — 57% DemocraticCredit Card Issuing — 63% DemocraticReal Estate Credit — 54% DemocraticPension Funds — 56% DemocraticConsumer Lending — 59% DemocraticInternational, Secondary Market, and All Other Nondepository Credit Intermediation — 52% DemocraticPharmacy Benefit Management and Other Third Party Administration of Insurance and Pension Funds — 53% DemocraticClaims Adjusting — 55% DemocraticAll Other Insurance Related Activities — 56% DemocraticOther Financial Vehicles — 58% DemocraticDirect Title Insurance Carriers — 50% DemocraticSecurities and Commodity Exchanges — 67% DemocraticSales Financing — 54% DemocraticMonetary Authorities-Central Bank — 64% DemocraticOther Insurance Funds — 44% DemocraticOpen-End Investment Funds — 59% DemocraticOther Activities Related to Credit Intermediation — 45% DemocraticTrust, Fiduciary, and Custody Activities — 61% DemocraticCommodity Contracts Intermediation — 69% DemocraticReinsurance Carriers — 57% DemocraticHealth and Welfare Funds — 61% DemocraticTrusts, Estates, and Agency Accounts — 79% DemocraticSecurities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage — 54% Democratic0%25%50%75%100%
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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