Maxine Waters

DemocratDistrict D+27119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score62#69 of 431 representatives across tracked bills

Contact Maxine Waters’s office

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

Call office 202-225-2201 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

2221 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0543

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 Republicans · 1 signal

Strong
Backs 4 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 4 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 842, H.R. 909, H.R. 1262, H.R. 6644.

Keeps them with Democrats · 3 signals

Strong
Safe Democratic district: CA-43 is D+27CA-43 has a partisan lean of D+27 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
Medium
2nd most liberal of 212 House DemocratsDW-NOMINATE -0.656 vs. the House Democratic median of -0.393: 0.263 further from the Republicans. Unlikely to cross toward the Republicans; may still break with the party from the left.
Medium

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: 35.8 years

Committees

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

House Committee on Financial ServicesRanking Member
Minority · 1st in seniority

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

D median

R median

Waters

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Their score of -0.656 is 0.26 to the left of the House Democratic median (-0.393).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the House Democratic average

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House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)

Swing score by bill

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

Showing 1–50 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for Maxine Waters on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 1An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.Summary on Congress.gov	No position yet	62	Middle
S. 5Laken Riley ActSummary on Congress.gov