Darren Soto
Democrat · FL-9 · U.S. House
Bio
Darren Michael Soto is an American attorney and Democratic politician who has been the U.S. representative for Florida's 9th district since 2017.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 9.6 years
- First took office
- 2017 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 166 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 48
- Kissimmee, FL · 407-452-1171
- Orlando, FL · 407-204-3370
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
- $851k – $1.8M
- Liabilities
- $315k – $650k
- Net worth
- $201k – $1.4M
- Since 2019
- +$117k
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
Darren Soto'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
Darren Soto (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.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Sotosits 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
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Problem Solvers Caucuscenter · 46 members
- Congressional Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
Committees
- House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
- House Committee on Natural Resourcescenter · 45 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Soto'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
13 Dems Help House GOP Pass Stock Trading Ban That Includes Trump Attack on VotersThe US House of Representatives on Wednesday held a series of key votes, including one in which over a dozen Democrats helped Republicans pass a purported congressional stock trading ban, even though the GOP tacked on a voter suppression provision demanded by…
Common Dreams · July 22, 2026
DeSantis Signs Gerrymandered Florida Map to Flip Seats for RepublicansFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis made his state’s new gerrymandered congressional map official Monday. DeSantis signed the map that his own office specifically drew in order to capture four more Republican seats in time for November’s midterm elections, hoping t…
The New Republic · May 4, 2026
WSJ warns red state gambit could cost GOP dearly: 'How confident are Republicans?'The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board has a warning for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis: if you move forward with re-gerrymandering your state, it might not turn out the way you're hoping.This comes as the architect of DeSantis' new congressional map…
Raw Story · April 29, 2026
DeSantis Unveils New, Almost Entirely Red Florida MapFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis released his new proposed congressional map Monday that aims to grab four more Republican seats in the House of Representatives. DeSantis told Fox News Digital that “Florida got shortchanged in the 2020 Census, and we’ve been fig…
The New Republic · April 27, 2026
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