Dwight Evans
Democrat · PA-3 · U.S. House
PA-3 — U.S. House
Safe D 99%Dwight Evans is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Chris Rabb vs. Republican nominee TBD.
Bio
Dwight E. Evans is an American politician and former educator serving as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district since 2016. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 203rd district from 1981 to 2016.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 9.9 years
- First took office
- 2016 (6 terms)
- Seniority
- 157 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 72
- Philadelphia, PA · 215-276-0340
- Philadelphia, PA · 215-254-3400
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
- $673k – $1.8M
- Liabilities
- $115k – $300k
- Net worth
- $373k – $1.7M
- Since 2019
- −$398k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 34 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
Dwight Evans'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
Dwight Evans (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 Evans?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Evanssits 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
- Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 95 members
- Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Ways and Meanscenter · 45 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Evans'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
- Far-Left Lawmaker Who Introduced Joke Forced Vasectomy Bill Likely Heading To Congress In Major Upset
Five-term Pennsylvania state Rep. Chris Rabb won the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District on Tuesday. Rabb secured the Democratic nomination for the seat held by retiring Rep. Dwight Evans after securing 44.3% of the vote, accordin…
Freerepublic.com · May 20, 2026 
Candidate Crib Sheet: The Race to Replace Dwight EvansThe 3rd Congressional District has a highly competitive primary for the first time in 35 years. From the son of a former mayor to a famous doctor to a high-profile state representative, here’s what you need to know before you head to the polls.
phillymag.com · March 30, 2026
A List of Every House Democrat Calling on Trump to Recognize PalestineDemocratic Representative Ro Khanna has collected almost 50 signatures on a petition of lawmakers urging the Trump administration to acknowledge the State of Palestine. Since the letter was first reported early last month, dozens of House Democrats have signe…
The New Republic · September 25, 2025
House Democrat announces he won't seek re-election in 2026Democratic Rep. Dwight Evans of Pennsylvania announced that he will not seek re-election next year, but will finish out his current term.
Fox News · July 1, 2025
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