Christopher H. Smith

Republican · NJ-4 · U.S. House

Bio

Christopher Henry Smith is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 4th congressional district since 1981. Though it has taken various forms, his district has always been situated in central New Jersey. Currently, the district contains parts of Ocean and Monmouth counties. Smith is a member of the Republican Party, having switched from the Democratic Party in 1978.

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Record of service

In office: 45.6 years
First took office: 1981 (23 terms)
Seniority: 3 of 437 by time served
Age: 73

District offices

Middletown, NJ · 732-780-3035
Toms River, NJ · 732-504-0567

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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

2023

$208k

2024

$240k

2025

$383k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $215k – $550k
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $215k – $550k
Since 2023: +$175k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 3 assets reported

Synchrony Bank$100k – $250k

UFB Direct$100k – $250k

Vanguard Money Market (Inherited IRA)$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+0.60

Healthcare

R+0.51

Immigration & Border

R+0.81

Guns

R+0.26

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.97

Environment & Energy

R+0.61

Crime & Policing

R+0.76

Defense & Veterans

R+0.67

Economy & Labor

R+0.63

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.66

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.06

Education

R+0.88

Government & Democracy

R+0.81

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

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

89%Closest

63%

35%

26%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

22%

Communist Party USA

20%

On the political map

Christopher H. Smith (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 Smithsits 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

House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 50 members
Africa (Chair)Western Hemisphere

Most and least aligned members

Treating Smith'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.