Ilhan Omar
Democrat · MN-5 · U.S. House
Bio
Ilhan Abdullahi Omar is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district since 2019. The district includes all of Minneapolis and some of its first-ring suburbs. From 2017 to 2019, Omar served in the Minnesota House of Representatives, representing part of Minneapolis. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 7.6 years
- First took office
- 2019 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 212 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 44
- Minneapolis, MN · 612-333-1272
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
- $20k – $126k
- Liabilities
- $30k – $100k
- Net worth
- −$80k – $96k
- Since 2019
- +$33k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 7 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
Ilhan Omar'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
Ilhan Omar (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Omarsits 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
- Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 93 members
- Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on the Budgetcenter · 37 members
- House Committee on Education and Workforcecenter · 36 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Omar'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
Omar's GOP challenger comes out firing with vow to clean up 'mess' in deep blue district: 'People are fed up'John Nagel, a 30-year state trooper who won the Republican primary, says Minnesota voters of all backgrounds are fed up with fraud under Ilhan Omar.
Fox News · August 18, 2026
Ilhan Omar on track for fifth term as Minnesota voters maintain far-left streakIlhan Omar faced four challengers in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District Democratic primary as affordable housing and public safety dominated.
Fox News · August 12, 2026
Ilhan Omar Says ICE Agent Sat Outside Her Town Hall In Car With Mismatched PlatesThis “raises serious and uncomfortable questions,” the Minnesota Democrat wrote in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security.
HuffPost · August 10, 2026
Maniacal Trump-hater loses Democratic primary — BIGLYAnother nemesis of President Donald Trump has bitten the dust, politically speaking.Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) has voted as a far-left radical since he was first elected to Congress in 2022. He has even introduced articles of impeachment against Sec. of War…
TheBlaze · August 5, 2026
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