David Schweikert
Republican · AZ-1 · U.S. House
AZ-1 — U.S. House
Lean D 68%David Schweikert is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Amish Shah vs. Jay Feely.
Bio
David Sheridan Schweikert is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. representative from Arizona's 1st congressional district since 2023, previously representing the 6th congressional district from 2013 to 2023 and the 5th from 2011 to 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party. His district includes most of northern Phoenix as well as Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, and Cave Creek.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 15.7 years
- First took office
- 2011 (8 terms)
- Seniority
- 87 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 64
- Scottsdale, AZ · 480-946-2411
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
- $447k – $980k
- Liabilities
- $380k – $850k
- Net worth
- −$403k – $600k
- Since 2019
- +$32k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 9 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
David Schweikert'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
David Schweikert (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Schweikertsits 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 Ways and Meanscenter · 45 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Schweikert'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
Arizona congressman heard ‘freight train crash’ sound during Grand Canyon flash floodRep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., said he heard what sounded like “a freight train smashing into a boulder” as a Grand Canyon flash flood consumed the landscape near his rafting group Saturday.
NBC News · September 2, 2026
Arizona Rep. Schweikert Convenes Hoover Experts to Explore Use of Regulatory SandboxesOn August 13, Chairman David Schweikert (R-AZ-01) of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee hosted a roundtable at Hoover entitled “Lowering Barriers to Innovate: Regulatory Sandboxes and the Federal Government’s Role.”
Hoover.org · August 27, 2026
Biggs Dominates Arizona RaceBy Pedro Rodriguez, The Daily Signal | July 22, 2026 Republican Rep. Andy Biggs secured a decisive victory Tuesday in Arizona’s Republican gubernatorial primary, defeating fellow Rep. David Schweikert and setting up a general election matchup against Democrat…
Biztoc.com · July 22, 2026
Andy Biggs Wins GOP Nomination For Arizona GovernorRepublican U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs has secured his party's nomination for Arizona governor after defeating fellow Rep. David Schweikert with more than 71 percent of the vote. Biggs will now challenge incumbent Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs in November in one o…
Biztoc.com · July 22, 2026
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