James R. Walkinshaw

Democrat · VA-11 · U.S. House

Bio

James Robert Walkinshaw is an American politician and former congressional aide serving as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 11th congressional district since September 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a member of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors from the Braddock District from 2020 until his resignation in 2025.

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Record of service

In office: 0.9 years
First took office: 2025 (1 terms)
Seniority: 431 of 437 by time served
Age: 43

District offices

Fairfax, VA · 703-256-3071

FEC filings ↗GovTrack ↗Ballotpedia ↗Vote Smart ↗

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

2025

$850k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $550k – $1.1M
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $550k – $1.1M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 6 assets reported

Empower 401k ⇒ Fidelity 500 Index Fund (FXAIX)$250k – $500k

T. Rowe Price Fairfax County Deferred Compensation Plan ⇒ Vanguard Institutional Index Fun$100k – $250k

Empower 401k ⇒ Fidelity International Index Fund (FSPSX)$50k – $100k

HSA Bank HSA ⇒ Vanguard Total International Stock ETF (VXUS)$50k – $100k

Vanguard Roth IRA ⇒ Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fd Admiral (VTIAX)$50k – $100k

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+0.64

Healthcare

D+1.00

Immigration & Border

D+1.00

Guns

D+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.94

Crime & Policing

D+1.00

Defense & Veterans

D+0.59

Economy & Labor

D+0.43

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.27

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.81

Education

D+1.00

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

James R. Walkinshaw'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

88%

Communist Party USA

88%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

88%

Libertarian Party

51%

Republican Party

26%

On the political map

James R. Walkinshaw (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 Walkinshawsits 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
Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
Military and Foreign Affairs Delivering on Government Efficiency
House Committee on Homeland Securitycenter · 31 members
Border Security and Enforcement Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection

Most and least aligned members

Treating Walkinshaw'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.