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U.S. Representative · South Carolina 5th District
Ralph Norman
RepublicanDistrict R+11119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score20#366 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Ralph Norman’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office569 Cannon House Office Building Washington DC 20515-4005
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 · 3 signals
- Medium3rd most conservative of 219 House RepublicansDW-NOMINATE +0.856 vs. the House Republican median of +0.530: 0.326 further from the Democrats. Unlikely to cross toward the Democrats; may still break with the party from the right.
- MediumVotes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.856 (party median +0.530; rank 217 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 100 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
- WeakBacks only Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 18 of the 865 tracked bills, all introduced by Republicans: H.R. 22, H.R. 30, H.R. 38, H.R. 260, H.R. 425 and 13 more.
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
- 9.3 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Financial ServicesMajority · 15th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance
- Subcommittee on Financial Institutions
- House Committee on RulesMajority · 3rd in seniority
- Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process
- House Committee on the BudgetMajority · 2nd in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Norman← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.856 is 0.33 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress100House Republican average: 86 (n=217)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 101–150 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. 5045Wildfire Emissions Prevention Act of 2026Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | 28
| Entrenched |
| H.R. 6387FIRE Act |