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U.S. Representative · Mississippi 1st District
Trent Kelly
RepublicanDistrict R+18119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score26#355 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Trent Kelly’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2243 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-2401
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 · 1 signal
- WeakBacks 1 Democratic-led tracked billSponsor or active cosponsor of 1 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: H.R. 4467.
Keeps them with Republicans · 2 signals
- MediumVotes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.636 (party median +0.530; rank 161 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 94 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
- MediumSafe Republican district: MS-1 is R+18MS-1 has a partisan lean of R+18 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
Bill-specific inputs
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
- 11.3 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on AgricultureMajority · 7th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture
- Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry
- House Committee on Armed ServicesMajority · 9th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations
- Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection ForcesChairman
- House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Kelly← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.636 is 0.11 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress94House Republican average: 86 (n=217)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · 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. 1049Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | 43
| Middle |
| H.R. 3062Promoting Cross-border Energy Infrastructure Act |