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U.S. Representative · Ohio 11th District
Shontel M. Brown
DemocratDistrict D+28119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score25#361 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Shontel M. Brown’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2455 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-3511
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 Republicans · 1 signal
- StrongBacks 7 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 7 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 842, H.R. 909, H.R. 979, H.R. 1262, H.R. 1346 and 2 more.
Keeps them with Democrats · 2 signals
- StrongSafe Democratic district: OH-11 is D+28OH-11 has a partisan lean of D+28 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
- MediumVotes with House DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.476 (party median -0.393; rank 169 of 212 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 0 (avg 1); LCV 100 (avg 96).
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
- 4.9 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on AgricultureMinority · 6th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture
- Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit
- House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformMinority · 7th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government InnovationRanking Member
- House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Brown← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.476 is 0.08 to the left of the House Democratic median (-0.393).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Democratic average- 119th Congress0House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 51–100 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 1431To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2407 State Route 71, Suite 1, in Spring Lake, New Jersey, as the "James J. Howard Post Office".Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | 39
| Middle |