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 dataset

Call office 202-225-6216 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

2234 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-1604

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

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

Medium
Votes 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).
Weak
Backs 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 dataset

On 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 Budget
Majority · 12th in seniority
House Committee on Ways and Means
Majority · 8th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Social SecurityChair
- Subcommittee on Tax
Joint Economic Committee
Majority · 3rd in seniority

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

R 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 Congress91
House Republican average: 86 (n=217)

Swing score by bill

swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Showing 51–100 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for Ron Estes on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 9498Taxpayer Advocate Participation ActSummary on Congress.gov	No position yetNow in the Senate	32 Broke with party on 1% of 10 similar votes Sits on a committee of referral	Middle
H.R. 9499Protecting Taxpayers from Ghost Preparers Act