Sarah Elfreth
Democrat · MD-3 · U.S. House
Bio
Sarah Kelly Elfreth is an American politician who is serving as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 3rd congressional district since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented the 30th district in the Maryland Senate from 2019 to 2025.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 1.6 years
- First took office
- 2025 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 390 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 37
- Columbia, MD · 410-832-8890
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
- Assets
- $46k – $166k
- Liabilities
- $515k – $1.1M
- Net worth
- −$1.0M – −$349k
- Since 2024
- −$684k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 5 assets reported
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)
Issue profile
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
Sarah Elfreth's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Sarah Elfreth (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Elfrethsits 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
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
- House Committee on Natural Resourcescenter · 45 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Elfreth'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.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
'All-time low!' MAGA melts down as frustrated Dems stage 'sit-in' at ICE facilityMAGA melted down Monday afternoon as a Democratic senator staged a sit-in after being barred from a federal immigration detention facility in Baltimore.Frustrated members of Maryland’s congressional delegation unsuccessfully tried to appeal to an Immigration …
Raw Story · July 28, 2025- Dems Rally Against Audit of Social Security [semi-satire]
Last week Democrats rallied outside the Baltimore office of the Social Security Administration demanding "Musk, keep your hands off of our Social Security." Those in attendance at the demonstration included Maryland Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobr…
Freerepublic.com · February 17, 2025 
The slow death of DC Democrats’ Jan. 6 politicsDemocrats bet big on January 6. It’s been their election strategy for years now; its memory is invoked like Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and Dealey Plaza rolled into one neat campaign ad. There’s a problem, though, revealed most recently in last week’s primaries: It’s…
TheBlaze · May 20, 2024
Democratic establishment's Jan. 6 'hero' defeated in House primary — and people are thanking Steve BakerFormer U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn won the confidence of establishment Democrats by dutifully bolstering their preferred Jan. 6 narrative, even though it diverged greatly from reality. He tried to replicate that success Tuesday in the Maryland Hou…
TheBlaze · May 15, 2024
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