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Lawyers

SOC 23-1011.00 · 361,853 matched workers · high confidence

Strong Democratic lean
64.0% Democratic, 36.0% Republican

Two-party shares across 361,853 workers in this occupation matched to voter registration records.

64.0%
36.0%
DemocraticRepublican
Imputed
63.7% D · 36.3% R
Includes lean for unaffiliated registrants
Major group
Legal Occupations
SOC major code 23-0000
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Where Lawyers falls

More Republican than 87% of occupations in Legal Occupations.

← DemocraticRepublican →Paralegals and Legal Assistants — 66% DemocraticJudicial Law Clerks — 68% DemocraticJudges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates — 66% DemocraticArbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators — 69% DemocraticTitle Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers — 54% DemocraticAdministrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers — 65% DemocraticLegal Support Workers, All Other — 66% DemocraticLawyers — 64% Democratic0%25%50%75%100%
Each dot is one of the 7 other occupations in Legal Occupations; size scales by worker count. Hover to see names — click to jump.

How this is measured

VRscores estimate the partisan composition of an occupation by linking voter registration records to employment profiles. Each worker is assigned to one occupation per year. 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