Emilia Strong Sykes

Democrat · OH-13 · U.S. House

Bio

Emilia Strong Sykes is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 13th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she formerly represented the 34th district of the Ohio House of Representatives, which consists of portions of the Akron area. From 2019 until 2021, she also served as minority leader of that chamber.

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Record of service

In office: 3.6 years
First took office: 2023 (2 terms)
Seniority: 338 of 437 by time served
Age: 40

District offices

Akron, OH · 330-400-5350
Canton, OH · 330-400-5350

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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

$108k

2024

−$321k

2025

−$1k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $372k – $905k
Liabilities: $400k – $880k
Net worth: −$508k – $505k
Since 2023: −$109k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 10 assets reported

Ohio Public Employee Retirement$250k – $500k

Ohio Public Employee Retirement$100k – $250k

Boycehaydar LLC$15k – $50k

Adelphi Bank - Certificate of Deposit #1$1k – $15k

Adelphi Bank - Certificate of Deposit #2$1k – $15k

Transamerica - Adelphi Bank 401(k) Plan ⇒ Fidelity 500 Index Fund (FXAIX)$1k – $15k

Transamerica - Adelphi Bank 401(k) Plan ⇒ International Growth Fund II Fee Class R1$1k – $15k

Transamerica - Adelphi Bank 401(k) Plan ⇒ Vanguard Growth Index Fd Admiral Shs (VIGAX)$1k – $15k

SP None Tax-Deferred Transamerica - Adelphi Bank 401(k) Plan ⇒ Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth Ind$1k – $15k

Transamerica - Adelphi Bank 401(k) Plan ⇒ Vanguard Small Cap Index Fd Admiral Shs (VSMAX)$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

D+0.23

Healthcare

D+0.71

Immigration & Border

D+0.51

Guns

D+0.52

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.79

Crime & Policing

D+0.13

Defense & Veterans

R+0.06

Economy & Labor

D+0.61

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.33

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.89

Education

D+0.92

Government & Democracy

D+0.65

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+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

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

Democratic Party

89%Closest

Green Party

83%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

80%

Communist Party USA

79%

Libertarian Party

54%

Republican Party

39%

On the political map

Emilia Strong Sykes (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 Sykessits 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

New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
Problem Solvers Caucuscenter · 46 members
Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 66 members
Highways and Transit Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Water Resources and Environment
House Committee on Science, Space, and Technologycenter · 39 members
Investigations and Oversight (Ranking Member)

Most and least aligned members

Treating Sykes'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.