Elise M. Stefanik
Republican · NY-21 · U.S. House
Bio
Elise Marie Stefanik is an American politician who has served as the U.S. representative for New York's 21st congressional district since 2015. From 2021 to 2025, she served as chair of the House Republican Conference.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 11.6 years
- First took office
- 2015 (6 terms)
- Seniority
- 143 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 42
- House Republican Conference Chair · 2021–2025
- Herkimer, NY · 315-219-8005
- Plattsburgh, NY · 518-561-2324
- Ogdensburg, NY · 315-541-2670
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.
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
Elise M. Stefanik'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
Elise M. Stefanik (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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.
Do you vote like Stefanik?
Answer a few questions on the issues and see which members of Congress — and which party — actually line up with you.
Caucuses & committees
Where Stefaniksits 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 Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
- House Committee on Education and Workforcecenter · 36 members
- House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligencecenter · 27 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Stefanik'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
The Endless, Maddening Wait for a Woman PresidentI was sitting at the bar of a coffee shop in South Austin, researching the suffragist movement.“Those are old newspaper articles?” the guy next to me asked. He might have been in his thirties. He had a loose hipster haircut and expensive sneakers. “Very cool.…
The New Republic · August 13, 2026
Hochul says Stefanik would've been tougher GOP opponent than Blakeman in surprising swipe at rivalBruce Blakeman compared Kathy Hochul to Cruella de Vil after the New York governor suggested Elise Stefanik would have been a tougher opponent.
Fox News · July 7, 2026- US News NY congressional GOP hopeful gifts Trump $250K bronze statue depicting prez after attempted assassination
President Trump’s bond with likely New York lawmaker Anthony Constantino is already set — in bronze. Constantino, who got Trump’s endorsement to fill the seat of retiring upstate Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), gifted a $250,000 bronze statue capturing his defian…
Freerepublic.com · July 4, 2026 
Trump Convinces Third-Party to Exit House RacePresident Trump personally intervened to ask a third-party candidate to drop from a House race in New York state—and the move worked. As a result, Democratic chances of flipping the seat held by the outgoing Elise Stefanik just fell dramatically, reports the …
Newser · July 3, 2026
Recent coverage via NewsAPI, refreshed daily.