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Industry · Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction

Support Activities for Mining

NAICS 2131 · 24,511 matched workers · high confidence

Strong Republican lean
39.8% Democratic, 60.2% Republican

Two-party shares across 24,511 workers in the Support Activities for Mining industry.

39.8%
60.2%
DemocraticRepublican
Imputed
39.3% D · 60.7% R
Includes lean for unaffiliated registrants
Hierarchy
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction › Support Activities for Mining
NAICS2 21 · NAICS4 2131
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Where Support Activities for Mining falls

More Republican than 65% of industries in Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction.

← DemocraticRepublican →Crude Petroleum Extraction — 40% DemocraticDrilling Oil and Gas Wells — 40% DemocraticSupport Activities for Oil and Gas Operations — 39% DemocraticNatural Gas Extraction — 38% DemocraticIron Ore Mining — 48% DemocraticOther Crushed and Broken Stone Mining and Quarrying — 39% DemocraticConstruction Sand and Gravel Mining — 40% DemocraticCopper, Nickel, Lead, and Zinc Mining — 44% DemocraticOther Metal Ore Mining — 42% DemocraticGold Ore and Silver Ore Mining — 41% DemocraticOther Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying — 46% DemocraticCrushed and Broken Limestone Mining and Quarrying — 40% DemocraticUnderground Coal Mining — 28% DemocraticSurface Coal Mining — 35% DemocraticIndustrial Sand Mining — 45% DemocraticCrushed and Broken Granite Mining and Quarrying — 50% DemocraticSupport Activities for Mining — 40% Democratic0%25%50%75%100%
Each dot is one of the 16 other industries in Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction; 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