Mississippi House · District 88

Chuck Blackwell

Republican

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Votes with the Speaker 84% On 258 contested votes where both voted · 97% on all votes Votes with own party 92% Partisan rank: 84 of 120 in the House (tied with 3 others) Didn't vote at roll call 7% 168 of 2,367 roll calls

Statewide bills passed 0 17 sponsored · 0 became law · Rank 74 of 120 in the House (tied with 46 others) Local and private bills passed 0 0 sponsored · 0 became law

Where they sit

Every current House member, placed from most liberal to most conservative by how they voted on contested bills.

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Chuck Blackwell's seat is marked. Seats run from most liberal (left) to most conservative (right), by contested floor votes. Color shows how often each member crosses party lines toward the middle on votes that divide the parties: solid blue or red means almost never, and purple means on at least 1 in 5 of those votes. Gray seats are members too new to score. How these numbers work

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More liberal than 50% of the Mississippi House.

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60th most liberal of 120

The scores

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Votes with the Speaker

84%

Each tick is a current House member, by party; the dot is Chuck Blackwell.

On 258 contested votes where both voted97% on all 2,193 votes where both voted

Votes with own party

92%

Each tick is a current House member, by party; the dot is Chuck Blackwell.

On 143 party-line votesPartisan rank: 84 of 120 in the House (tied with 3 others)83 House members vote with their party more often

Bills

The bills Chuck Blackwell sponsored this term and how far they got. Co-sponsors aren’t counted.

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Bills: Chuck Blackwell
	Statewide	Local and private
Sponsored	17	0
Passed both chambers	0	0
Became law	0	0
Vetoed by the Governor	0	0

Rank by statewide bills passed: Rank 74 of 120 in the House (tied with 46 others) · 61 of 77 Republicans (tied with 16 others)

A bill's sponsors are its principal authors, as the Legislature lists them; co-authors aren't counted. Local and private bills (for one county, city or district) are counted and shown apart, not ranked.

Bills that passed both chambers

None of the bills Chuck Blackwell sponsored passed both chambers.

Budget projects

Mississippi's appropriation bills don't say which legislator asked for an item, so there's no budget figure for Mississippi legislators.

Contested votes where they split

42 against the Speaker; 42 against most of their party.

Contested votes where they split: Chuck Blackwell
Date	Bill and motion	Their vote	Speaker	Most of their party
March 29, 2026	HB 1936: Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for Conference Committee Report	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 29, 2026	SB 3088: Appropriation; Corrections, Department of Conference Committee Report	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 10, 2026	SB 2436: Black bear hunting season; require MDWFP to create and issue harvest tags for through a lottery system Passage	Yea	Yea	Nay (split)
March 5, 2026	SB 2714: Safe deposit boxes; create escheatment process for and revise certain portions of Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 5, 2026	SB 3111: Alcohol taxes, markups and other charges; exempt up to 10 cases of wine donated annually by a permittee to nonprofits Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 25, 2026	HB 4014: Income tax; exclude NIL compensation from gross income Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 19, 2026	HB 1936: Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 12, 2026	HB 814: Dept. of Health; authorize to increase fees by certain percentage during next three fiscal years Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 11, 2026	HB 389: Student enrollment; require automobile registration as proof of residency Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 10, 2026	HB 670: Alcoholic beverages; increase number of package retailer's permits a person may own Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 4, 2026	HB 1665: Pharmacy Benefit Prompt Pay Act and State Health Insurance Plan; revise Amendment	Yea	Nay (split)	Nay (split)
May 28, 2025	SB 2046: Appropriation; Development Authority, Mississippi Amendment	Yea	Nay (split)	Nay (split)
May 28, 2025	SB 2046: Appropriation; Development Authority, Mississippi Amendment	Yea	Nay (split)	Nay (split)
May 28, 2025	SB 2046: Appropriation; Development Authority, Mississippi Amendment	Yea	Nay (split)	Nay (split)
May 28, 2025	HB 43: Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Nay
May 28, 2025	SB 2050: Special funds; revise and create certain within the State Treasury and transfer funds to Passage	Yea	Yea	Nay (split)
March 12, 2025	SB 2248: Fresh Start Act; revise Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 11, 2025	SB 2851: Alcoholic beverages; allow persons to bring onto premises with on-premise retailer's permits in certain qualified resorts Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 27, 2025	SB 2768: Judicial redistricting; revise provisions related to chancery courts, provide procedure for implementation Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 20, 2025	HB 1769: Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 18, 2025	SB 2145: Alcoholic beverages; authorize the direct shipment of wine Amendment	Yea	Nay (split)	Nay (split)
Feb. 13, 2025	HB 1157: Used motor vehicle dealers; require continuing education as a condition of application for licensure renewal Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Nay
Feb. 11, 2025	HB 92: Alcoholic beverages; authorize governing authorities of wet jurisdictions to authorize package retail sales on Sunday Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 11, 2025	HB 91: Alcoholic beverages; revise policy of state regarding prohibition of, revise certain provisions regarding delivery service permits Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 11, 2025	HB 51: Alcoholic beverages; revise certain provisions regarding distance restrictions from churches, schools, kindergartens and funeral homes Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 11, 2025	HB 558: Alcoholic beverages; increase number of package retailer's permits a person may own Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 10, 2025	HB 1154: Mississippi Law on Notarial Acts; revise to allow notaries to perform remote online notarization Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 10, 2025	HB 848: Opioid Settlement Fund Committee; create to disburse opioid litigation settlement monies Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 6, 2025	HB 1544: Judicial redistricting; revise for circuit courts Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
May 1, 2024	HB 1824: Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for Conference Committee Report	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 25, 2024	HB 903: Machine gun; provide crime for conversion to Conference Committee Report	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 10, 2024	SB 2405: Alcoholic beverages; increase number of package retailer's permits under certain conditions Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 10, 2024	SB 2776: Immediate possession; authorize for certain public agencies for roads & public utilities for an economic development project Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 9, 2024	SB 2405: Alcoholic beverages; increase number of package retailer's permits under certain conditions Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 26, 2024	HB 1990: Ad valorem tax; authorize counties to establish minimum revenue amount to be produced by certain property Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 14, 2024	HB 1824: Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 13, 2024	HB 73: School attendance officers; transfer responsibility of employment from MDE to local school districts Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 13, 2024	HB 430: Alcoholic beverages; allow direct sales and shipment of certain wines to residents in this state Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 6, 2024	HB 413: Dog bites; authorize payment for actual expenses for injuries caused by Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 6, 2024	HB 1000: Corporations and LLCs; authorize notice of dissolution by electronic mail only Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 6, 2024	HB 1257: Notary public; clarify maximum fee permitted and authorize qualified nonresidents to be commissioned as Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 6, 2024	HB 1525: Alcoholic beverages; revise certain provisions regarding locations for sale of Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 28, 2024	HB 1725: Medicaid; seek federal waiver for plan to allow Medicaid coverage for persons described in the federal Affordable Care Act Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 6, 2024	HB 777: Alcoholic beverages; revise policy of state regarding prohibition of Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)

Every roll call

How Chuck Blackwell voted on each of the 2,367 floor roll calls while in office, newest first.

Every roll call: Chuck Blackwell
Date	Vote	Their vote	Most of their party	Speaker	Yeas–nays
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Contested and party-line votes link to their own pages; the rest link to the official record.

Contact, committees and caucuses

Contact

Official page: billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
Email: cblackwell@house.ms.gov
Capitol office: State Capitol 400 High St., Jackson, MS 39201
601-359-3770
District office: P.O. Box 1018, Jackson, MS 39215

Committees

Constitution
County Affairs
Education
Judiciary A
Public Utilities
Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks
Youth and Family Affairs

Contact details and committee assignments from Open States' data on the Mississippi Legislature, which it collects from the chambers' websites, as of Oct. 15, 2026.

Source: the Mississippi Legislature's roll-call records, Jan. 2, 2024 to July 16, 2026. How these numbers work · Corrections