Troy Balderson

Republican · OH-12 · U.S. House

Bio

William Troy Balderson is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. representative from Ohio's 12th congressional district since 2018. He served as an Ohio state senator representing the 20th district from 2011 until his election to Congress. A member of the Republican Party, he was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2009 to 2011.

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Record of service

In office: 8 years
First took office: 2018 (5 terms)
Seniority: 188 of 437 by time served
Age: 64

District offices

Pickerington, OH · 614-523-2555

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

$73k

2020

$240k

2021

$240k

2022

−$60k

2023

−$60k

2024

−$92k

2025

$208k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $215k – $550k
Liabilities: $100k – $250k
Net worth: −$35k – $450k
Since 2019: +$135k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 3 assets reported

Rental Property$100k – $250k

Edward Jones ⇒ AMCAP Fund, Class A Shares A (AMCPX)$100k – $250k

Huntington Bank$15k – $50k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.70

Healthcare

R+0.72

Immigration & Border

R+0.95

Guns

R+0.85

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.80

Crime & Policing

R+0.74

Defense & Veterans

R+0.77

Economy & Labor

R+0.68

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.72

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.12

Education

R+0.69

Government & Democracy

R+0.83

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Troy Balderson's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

91%Closest

64%

30%

21%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

17%

Communist Party USA

15%

On the political map

Troy Balderson (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Baldersonsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Republican Governance Groupstrongly right · 44 members
Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members

Committees

House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
Energy Health Oversight and Investigations (Vice Chair)

Most and least aligned members

Treating Balderson's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.