Brad Finstad

Republican · MN-1 · U.S. House

Bio

Bradley Howard Finstad is an American politician serving since 2022 as the U.S. representative for Minnesota's 1st congressional district. Finstad represents a section of southern Minnesota along the border with Iowa. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2003 to 2009.

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Record of service

In office: 4 years
First took office: 2022 (3 terms)
Seniority: 291 of 437 by time served
Age: 50

District offices

Rochester, MN · 507-577-6140
New Ulm, MN · 507-577-6151

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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

2022

$7.2M

2023

$4.0M

2024

$4.0M

2025

$4.0M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $1.6M – $6.4M
Liabilities: $50k – $100k
Net worth: $1.5M – $6.4M
Since 2022: −$3.2M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 11 assets reported

Finstad Farms$1.0M – $5.0M

South Point Credit Union Account$250k – $500k

CREF Equity Index Account - R1 (QCEQRX)$100k – $250k

CREF Growth Account - R1 (QCGRRX)$100k – $250k

CREF Global Equities Account - R1 (QCGLRX)$50k – $100k

CREF Stock Account - R1 (QCSTRX)$50k – $100k

State Street Target Retirement 2040 Fund Class I (SSCNX)$50k – $100k

TIAA Real Estate Account (QREARX)$15k – $50k

TIAA Traditional$15k – $50k

AB Global Risk Allocation Fund, Inc. - Class A (CABNX)$1k – $15k

CREF Core Bond Account - Class R1 (QCBMRX)$1k – $15k

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+0.74

Healthcare

R+0.81

Immigration & Border

R+1.00

Guns

R+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.86

Crime & Policing

R+0.95

Defense & Veterans

R+0.70

Economy & Labor

R+0.80

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.83

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.18

Education

R+1.00

Government & Democracy

R+0.89

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

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

88%Closest

61%

26%

17%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

13%

Communist Party USA

11%

On the political map

Brad Finstad (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 Finstadsits 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 Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Finstad'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.