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Paralegals and Legal Assistants

SOC 23-2011.00 · 169,340 matched workers · high confidence

Strong Democratic lean
65.6% Democratic, 34.4% Republican

Two-party shares across 169,340 workers in this occupation matched to voter registration records.

65.6%
34.4%
DemocraticRepublican
Imputed
66.0% D · 34.0% R
Includes lean for unaffiliated registrants
Major group
Legal Occupations
SOC major code 23-0000
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Where Paralegals and Legal Assistants falls

More Republican than 62% of occupations in Legal Occupations.

← DemocraticRepublican →Lawyers — 64% 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% DemocraticParalegals and Legal Assistants — 66% 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