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U.S. Representative · Missouri 8th District
Jason Smith
RepublicanDistrict R+27119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score22#346 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Jason Smith’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office1011 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-2508
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. 1993.
Keeps them with Republicans · 2 signals
- StrongSafe Republican district: MO-8 is R+27MO-8 has a partisan lean of R+27 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
- MediumVotes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.578 (party median +0.530; rank 130 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 100 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
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
- 13.4 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Ways and MeansChairMajority · 1st in seniority
- Joint Committee on TaxationVice ChairmanMajority · 1st in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Smith← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.578 is 0.05 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 51–100 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 7147Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026.Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | 33
| Middle |
| H.R. 7744Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026 |