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U.S. Representative · Oklahoma 1st District
Kevin Hern
RepublicanDistrict R+11119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score24#327 of 431 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Kevin Hern’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office171 Cannon House Office Building Washington DC 20515-3601
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 · 0 signals
No signals in this direction
None of our measures place this member closer to the Democrats than their party.
Keeps them with Republicans · 2 signals
- MediumVotes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.677 (party median +0.530; rank 180 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 87 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
- WeakBacks only Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 18 of the 890 tracked bills, all introduced by Republicans: H.R. 21, H.R. 28, H.R. 33, H.R. 38, H.R. 425 and 13 more.
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
- 7.9 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Ways and MeansMajority · 10th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Health
- Subcommittee on Tax
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Hern← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.677 is 0.15 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress87House 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. 9642Medicare Access to Rural Anesthesiology ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yet | 31
| Middle |
| H.R. 10666FCHIP Extension ActSummary on Congress.gov |