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U.S. Representative · Kansas 4th District
Ron Estes
RepublicanDistrict R+12119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score24#327 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 · 2 signals
- WeakBroke with Republicans on 9 of 353 recorded votes on tracked billsVoted against the majority of House Republicans on 9 of the 353 recorded yea/nay votes they cast on tracked bills (3%). The median House Republican broke on 1%; this member ranks 74 of 219 by break rate.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 4294 MAWS Act of 2026
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 2503 ROTOR Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1917 Great Lakes Mass Marking Program Act of 2025
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1770 Consumer Safety Technology Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 3422 Promoting Opportunities for Non-Traditional Capital Formation Act
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 401–450 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 1431To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2407 State Route 71, Suite 1, in Spring Lake, New Jersey, as the "James J. Howard Post Office".Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | No recorded vote | 28
| Entrenched |