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U.S. Representative · Minnesota 1st District
Brad Finstad
RepublicanDistrict R+6119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score23#334 of 431 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Brad Finstad’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2418 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-2301
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
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
- MediumBacks 2 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 2 of the 890 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: H.R. 1266, H.Res. 519.
Keeps them with Republicans · 1 signal
- MediumVotes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.558 (party median +0.530; rank 123 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 89 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
Bill-specific inputsVotes on similar past bills and committee seats vary by bill, so they appear in the swing-v3 scores below rather than here.
Term and election
From the congress-legislators datasetOn the ballot 2026
- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 4.2 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on AgricultureMajority · 17th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign AgricultureChair
- Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit
- Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development
- Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry
- House Committee on Armed ServicesMajority · 16th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Finstad← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.558 is 0.03 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress89House Republican average: 86 (n=217)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to it| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 1An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | 24
| Entrenched |
| H.R. 2283Recognizing Community Organizations for Veteran Engagement and Recovery ActSummary on Congress.gov |