
Byron Donalds
Republican · FL-19 · U.S. House
FL-19 — U.S. House
Safe R 99%Byron Donalds is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Victor Arias vs. Jim Schwartzel. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Byron Lowell Donalds is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 19th congressional district since 2021. His congressional district includes much of Southwest Florida. From 2016 to 2020, he served in the Florida House of Representatives. A member of the Republican Party, Donalds is its nominee in the 2026 Florida gubernatorial election.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 5.7 years
- First took office
- 2021 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 250 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 47
- Cape Coral, FL · 239-599-6033
- Naples, FL · 239-252-6225
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
- $1.2M – $3.4M
- Liabilities
- $765k – $1.6M
- Net worth
- −$310k – $2.6M
- Since 2020
- +$651k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 67 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
Byron Donalds'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
Byron Donalds (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 Donaldssits 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
- Freedom Caucusstrongly right · 31 members
- Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Committees
- House Committee on Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Donalds'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
- Florida polls show Republicans lead Democrats in governor and Senate races, but contests remain close
A quartet of public opinion polls in recent days show Republican Byron Donalds with a continuing, albeit narrow, lead over Democrat David Jolly in the race for Florida governor. In the U.S. Senate race, Republican Ashley Moody enjoys a larger advantage in her…
Freerepublic.com · October 10, 2026 - Florida poll: Republicans lead in the races for governor and Senate
Republican Byron Donalds holds a 7-percentage-point advantage over Democrat David Jolly in the Florida governor’s race, according to a new NBC South Florida/Telemundo Station Group poll, while Republican Sen. Ashley Moody is up by 10 points in her matchup aga…
Freerepublic.com · October 8, 2026
David Jolly Within Striking Distance of Byron Donalds: Florida PollDemocrat David Jolly is trailing Republican Representative Byron Donalds by just 2 points in the race for Florida governor, according to a new YouGov poll, the latest sign that the contest to succeed Governor Ron DeSantis is tighter than many expected. The su…
Biztoc.com · October 7, 2026- Byron Donalds is Trying to Convince Black Floridians to Trust a Top Trump Ally
Byron Donalds wants to make history as the first Black elected governor of Florida. But first, he has to convince Black voters that electing a Black governor who is one of President Donald Trump’s biggest allies is actually a win. That’s proving harder than t…
The Root · October 7, 2026
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