James Gallagher
Republican · CA-1 · U.S. House
CA-1 — U.S. House
Safe D 98%James Gallagher is on the ballot. Mike McGuire vs. James Gallagher. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Record of service
- In office
- 0.3 years
- First took office
- 2026 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 437 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 45
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
- $483k – $1.1M
- Liabilities
- $320k – $715k
- Net worth
- −$232k – $825k
Largest holdings in the 2026 filing · 8 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
James Gallagher'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
James Gallagher (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 Gallaghersits 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.
Committees
- House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 67 members
- House Committee on Science, Space, and Technologycenter · 40 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Gallagher'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
Republican Study Committee Members Say 'Waste, Water, and Wildfire' in California Shows the Costs of Democrat LeadershipReps. Vince Fong (R-CA) and James Gallagher (R-CA) pointed to California’s unemployment system, high-speed rail project, wildfire and water policies, and regulatory costs as examples of problems they attributed to Democrat governance, including effects they s…
Breitbart News · October 1, 2026
Republican James Gallagher wins special election to complete term of late California Rep. Doug LaMalfaCalifornia Republican Assemblyman James Gallagher will serve the remainder of late congressman Doug LaMalfa's House term after cruising to victory in a special election Tuesday.
New York Post · June 3, 2026
Republican James Gallagher wins special election for vacant red House district in CaliforniaRepublican state Rep. James Gallagher, the former state Assembly minority leader, will join Congress as its newest member after he won California’s 1st District special election Tuesday, NBC News projects.
NBC News · June 3, 2026
James Gallagher announces run to finish Doug LaMalfa's termCalifornia Republican James Gallagher announced on Wednesday that he will run to serve the remainder of the late Doug LaMalfa's term in Congress.
KCRA Sacramento · January 14, 2026
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