Ryan K. Zinke

Republican · MT-1 · U.S. House

Bio

Ryan Keith Zinke is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. representative for Montana's 1st congressional district since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, Zinke served in the Montana Senate from 2009 to 2013 and as the U.S. representative for the at-large congressional district from 2015 to 2017. He served as the United States secretary of the interior under president Donald Trump from 2017 until his resignation in 2019 following a series of ethics inquiries.

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Record of service

In office: 5.8 years · not continuous, returned 2023
First took office: 2015 (4 terms)
Seniority: 242 of 437 by time served
Age: 64

District offices

Bozeman, MT · 406-602-6030
Missoula, MT · 406-317-0276
Kalispell, MT · 406-317-0277

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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

2022

$16.7M

2023

$19.9M

2024

$5.1M

2025

$6.0M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $4.0M – $14.8M
Liabilities: $1.3M – $5.5M
Net worth: −$1.6M – $13.5M
Since 2022: −$10.7M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 10 assets reported

Hand Family Property$1.0M – $5.0M

Snowfrog LLC Whitefish MT$1.0M – $5.0M

Bay Point Resort Unit Whitefish MT$500k – $1.0M

Double Tap LLC Whitefish MT$500k – $1.0M

Family Property Whitefish MT$500k – $1.0M

LC Hand Holdings LLC$100k – $1.0M

Undeveloped Property Flathead County$250k – $500k

Bank Account Balances$100k – $250k

Operating Bank Account Balances$15k – $50k

USAA MF$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

R+0.81

Healthcare

R+0.59

Immigration & Border

R+1.00

Guns

R+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.98

Environment & Energy

R+0.84

Crime & Policing

R+0.98

Defense & Veterans

R+0.85

Economy & Labor

R+0.77

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.81

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.24

Education

R+0.97

Government & Democracy

R+0.90

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+0.77

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

Ryan K. Zinke's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

90%Closest

63%

27%

17%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

13%

Communist Party USA

12%

On the political map

Ryan K. Zinke (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 Zinkesits 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

Most and least aligned members

Treating Zinke'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.