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U.S. Representative · Minnesota 5th District
Ilhan Omar
DemocratDistrict D+32119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score54#141 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Ilhan Omar’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office1730 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-2305
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 · 2 signals
- StrongBacks 5 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 5 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 452, H.R. 909, H.R. 979, H.R. 1262, H.R. 8823.
- Weak52nd most moderate of 212 House DemocratsDW-NOMINATE -0.296 vs. the House Democratic median of -0.393: 0.097 toward the Republicans (rank 52 of 212 by distance toward the Republicans).
Keeps them with Democrats · 1 signal
- StrongSafe Democratic district: MN-5 is D+32MN-5 has a partisan lean of D+32 (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 datasetOn the ballot 2026
- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 7.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Education and WorkforceMinority · 11th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Workforce ProtectionsRanking Member
- Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development
- House Committee on the BudgetMinority · 9th in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Omar← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.296 is 0.10 to the right of the House Democratic median (-0.393).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Democratic average- 119th Congress7House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · 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. 3055TRANSPORT Jobs ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | 63
| Middle |
| H.R. 3123Ernest Peltz Accrued Veterans Benefits Act |