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U.S. Representative · California 52nd District
Juan Vargas
DemocratDistrict D+13119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score26#350 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Juan Vargas’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2467 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0552
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 8 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 8 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 842, H.R. 979, H.R. 1262, H.R. 1329, H.R. 1422 and 3 more.
Keeps them with Democrats · 1 signal
- MediumVotes with House DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.396 (party median -0.393; rank 108 of 212 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 0 (avg 1); LCV 100 (avg 96).
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
- 13.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Financial ServicesMinority · 11th in seniority
- Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions
- Subcommittee on Capital Markets
- Subcommittee on Financial Institutions
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Vargas← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.396 is 0.00 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 101–150 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 1526NORRA of 2025Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | 33
| Middle |
| H.R. 8365Monitor Accountability ActSummary on Congress.gov |