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U.S. Representative · New York 15th District
Ritchie Torres
DemocratDistrict D+27119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score43#193 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Ritchie Torres’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office1414 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-3215
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 16 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 16 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 323, H.R. 842, H.R. 909, H.R. 979, H.R. 1008 and 11 more.
Keeps them with Democrats · 2 signals
- StrongSafe Democratic district: NY-15 is D+27NY-15 has a partisan lean of D+27 (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 -0.311 (party median -0.393; rank 60 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
- 5.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Financial ServicesMinority · 17th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance
- Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions
- Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence
- House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist PartyMinority · 7th in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Torres← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.311 is 0.08 to the right 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, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 1–50 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 4553Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | 63
| Middle |
| H.R. 5371Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026 |