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U.S. Representative · North Carolina 8th District
Mark Harris
RepublicanDistrict R+10119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score41#192 of 431 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Mark Harris’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office126 Cannon House Office Building Washington DC 20515-3308
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 · 0 signals
No signals in this direction
None of our measures place this member closer to the Democrats than their party.
Keeps them with Republicans · 3 signals
- Medium10th most conservative of 219 House RepublicansDW-NOMINATE +0.800 vs. the House Republican median of +0.530: 0.270 further from the Democrats. Unlikely to cross toward the Democrats; may still break with the party from the right.
- MediumVotes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.800 (party median +0.530; rank 209 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 91 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
- WeakBacks only Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 23 of the 890 tracked bills, all introduced by Republicans: H.R. 22, H.R. 28, H.R. 30, H.R. 38, H.R. 425 and 18 more.
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
- 1.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on AgricultureMajority · 27th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture
- Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit
- Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry
- House Committee on Education and WorkforceMajority · 19th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development
- Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Harris← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.800 is 0.27 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-v2 · a bill marks a member as committed to it| 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 | 41 | Middle |
| H.R. 2283Recognizing Community Organizations for Veteran Engagement and Recovery ActSummary on Congress.gov |