Mark Alford

RepublicanDistrict R+21119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score9#430 of 431 representatives across tracked bills

Contact Mark Alford’s office

Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators dataset

Call office 202-225-2876 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

328 Cannon House Office Building Washington DC 20515-2504

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

Signals to watch

What in this member’s district, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.

Could pull them toward Democrats · 1 signal

Strong
Backs 4 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 4 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: H.R. 789, H.R. 1266, H.R. 2004, H.R. 8205.

Keeps them with Republicans · 2 signals

Medium
Votes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.563 (party median +0.530; rank 127 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 87 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
Medium
Safe Republican district: MO-4 is R+21MO-4 has a partisan lean of R+21 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.

Bill-specific inputs

Term and election

From the congress-legislators dataset

On the ballot 2026

Current term: January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
Next election: November 3, 2026
Years in office: 3.8 years

Committees

Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3

House Committee on Appropriations
Majority · 30th in seniority
- Subcommittee on National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs
- Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related AgenciesVice Chair
- Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
- Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government
House Committee on Small Business
Majority · 6th in seniority

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

R median

D median

Alford

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Their score of +0.563 is 0.03 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the House Republican average

119th Congress87
House Republican average: 86 (n=217)

Swing score by bill

swing-v2 · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Showing 151–200 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for Mark Alford on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 9340Ratepayer Protection ActSummary on Congress.gov	No position yet	9	Entrenched
H.R. 9436Northeast Lobsterman Protection Act of 2026Summary on Congress.gov