
Ashley Hinson
Republican · IA-2 · U.S. House
IA-2 — U.S. House
Toss-up 63%Ashley Hinson is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Lindsay James vs. Joe Mitchell.
R +3 points of win probability since July.
Bio
Ashley Elizabeth Hinson is an American politician and journalist serving as the U.S. representative for Iowa's 2nd congressional district since 2021. The district, numbered as the 1st district during her first term, covers much of northeastern Iowa, including Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, Cedar Falls, and Dubuque.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 5.7 years
- First took office
- 2021 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 255 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 43
- Waterloo, IA · 319-266-6925
- Dubuque, IA · 563-557-7789
- Cedar Rapids, IA · 319-364-2288
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
- $2.2M – $8.7M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $2.2M – $8.7M
- Since 2022
- +$1.2M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 81 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
Ashley Hinson'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
Ashley Hinson (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 Hinson?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Hinsonsits 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 · 141 members
Committees
- House Committee on Appropriationscenter · 63 members
- House Committee on Ethicscenter · 10 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Hinson'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
Ashley Hinson criticized for vote increasing Iowans’ health insurance costsHinson's vote may sway voter sentiment, potentially boosting Democratic chances in a tight Iowa Senate race amid healthcare concerns. The post Ashley Hinson criticized for vote increasing Iowans’ health insurance costs appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Crypto Briefing · October 9, 2026
Ashley Hinson's Trump Strategy Might Be Working in IowaIowa Republican Senate hopeful Ashley Hinson has a 2-point lead over Democrat rival Josh Turek according to the latest Emerson College survey, which puts her at 47 percent of the vote against 45 percent. Democrats hope to flip both chambers of Congress in Nov…
Biztoc.com · October 9, 2026
Iowa Debate: Ashley Hinson Demands Josh Turek Refund $20K Per Diem Payout: ‘You Stole from Taxpayers’Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) criticized Obama-endorsed Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Josh Turek for taking taxpayer-funded per diem payments while missing a majority of Iowa House votes this year, repeatedly targeting his attendance record during their Senate deb…
Breitbart News · October 9, 2026
Trump-backed Senate hopeful grilled over her husband's 'shadow lobbyist' ties and $50,000 taxpayer-dollar grab shaking up nail-biter raceIowa Republican Senate candidate and current Congresswoman Ashley Hinson denied that her husband was a 'shadow lobbyist' during a Wednesday debate.
Dailymail.com · October 8, 2026
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