Jake Ellzey
Republican · TX-6 · U.S. House
TX-6 — U.S. House
Safe R 99%Jake Ellzey is on the ballot. Danny Minton vs. Jake Ellzey. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
John Kevin "Jake" Ellzey Sr. is an American politician and former military officer serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 6th congressional district since 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a commissioner for the Texas Veterans Commission and later as a member of the Texas House of Representatives for the 10th district from January to July 2021. He served in the United States Navy as a fighter pilot, completing tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 5.2 years
- First took office
- 2021 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 287 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 56
- Corsicana, TX · 903-602-7860
- Waxahachie, TX · 469-550-7150
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
- $2.6M – $9.0M
- Liabilities
- $250k – $500k
- Net worth
- $2.1M – $8.7M
- Since 2021
- +$4.8M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 57 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
Jake Ellzey'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
Jake Ellzey (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 Ellzeysits 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 Small Businesscenter · 26 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Ellzey'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
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