Paul Tonko

DemocratDistrict D+8119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score26#292 of 431 representatives across tracked bills

Contact Paul Tonko’s office

Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators dataset

Call office 202-225-5076 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

2269 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-3220

Model

v3defaultv2

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 Republicans · 1 signal

Strong
Backs 14 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 14 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 323, H.R. 452, H.R. 842, H.R. 909, H.R. 979 and 9 more.

Keeps them with Democrats · 1 signal

Medium
Votes with House DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.416 (party median -0.393; rank 123 of 212 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 0 (avg 1); LCV 100 (avg 96).

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: 17.8 years

Committees

Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3

House Committee on Energy and Commerce
Minority · 6th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
- Subcommittee on Energy
- Subcommittee on EnvironmentRanking Member
House Committee on the Budget
Minority · 14th in seniority

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

D median

R median

Tonko

← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →

Their score of -0.416 is 0.02 to the left of the House Democratic median (-0.393).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the House Democratic average

119th Congress0
House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)

Swing score by bill

swing-v2, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to it

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

Swing score for Paul Tonko on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 131Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit ActSummary on Congress.gov	No position yet	26	Entrenched
H.R. 139Sunshine Protection Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov