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U.S. Representative · Kansas 4th District
Ron Estes
RepublicanDistrict R+12119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score24#331 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Ron Estes’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2234 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-1604
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 +0.647 (party median +0.530; rank 167 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 91 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
- WeakBacks only Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 21 of the 865 tracked bills, all introduced by Republicans: H.Con.Res. 58, H.R. 21, H.R. 22, H.R. 28, H.R. 33 and 16 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
- 9.5 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on the BudgetMajority · 12th in seniority
- House Committee on Ways and MeansMajority · 8th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Social SecurityChair
- Subcommittee on Tax
- Joint Economic CommitteeMajority · 3rd in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Estes← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.647 is 0.12 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress91House Republican average: 86 (n=217)
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. 7006Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | 43
| Middle |