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Industry · Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction

Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations

NAICS 213112 · 11,314 matched workers · high confidence

Strong Republican lean
39.1% Democratic, 60.9% Republican

Two-party shares across 11,314 workers in the Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations industry.

39.1%
60.9%
DemocraticRepublican
Imputed
38.4% D · 61.6% 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 Oil and Gas Operations falls

More Republican than 75% of industries in Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction.

← DemocraticRepublican →Crude Petroleum Extraction — 40% DemocraticDrilling Oil and Gas Wells — 40% 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 Oil and Gas Operations — 39% Democratic0%25%50%75%100%
Each dot is one of the 15 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