Jared F. Golden

Democrat · ME-2 · U.S. House

On the ballot in 2026

ME-2 — U.S. House

Toss-up 63%

Jared F. Golden is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Matthew Dunlap vs. Paul LePage.

R +7 points of win probability since February.

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Bio

Jared Forrest Golden is an American politician and Marine Corps veteran serving as the U.S. representative for Maine's 2nd congressional district since 2019. A Democrat, he represents a district encompassing the northern four-fifths of the state, including the cities of Lewiston, Bangor, and Auburn, along with the state capital of Augusta. It is the largest district east of the Mississippi River. His district was carried by Donald Trump in both the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, making it a politically competitive area. Golden concurrently won his district both times.

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Record of service

In office: 7.6 years
First took office: 2019 (4 terms)
Seniority: 238 of 437 by time served
Age: 44

District offices

Bangor, ME · 207-249-7400
Caribou, ME · 207-492-6009
Lewiston, ME · 207-241-6767

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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

2019

−$27k

2020

−$361k

2021

−$329k

2022

−$262k

2023

−$237k

2024

−$294k

2025

−$219k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $86k – $291k
Liabilities: $265k – $550k
Net worth: −$464k – $26k
Since 2019: −$192k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 10 assets reported

Norman, Hanson & Detroy 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan ⇒ Vanguard Target Retirement 2055 Fund $50k – $100k

Maine Public Employees Retirement System$15k – $50k

USAA - Checking & Savings$15k – $50k

Camden National Savings$1k – $15k

Maine Family Federal Credit Union$1k – $15k

Maine Public Employees Retirement System$1k – $15k

TD Bank - Checking$1k – $15k

Norman, Hanson & Detroy 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan ⇒ The Growth Fund of America Class R-6 $1k – $15k

Vanguard - Roth IRA ⇒ Vanguard Target Retirement 2055 Fund (VFFVX)$1k – $15k

USAA CD$201 – $1k

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.15

Healthcare

D+0.78

Immigration & Border

R+0.13

Guns

R+0.70

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.13

Crime & Policing

R+0.23

Defense & Veterans

R+0.22

Economy & Labor

D+0.01

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.29

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.80

Education

R+0.32

Government & Democracy

D+0.32

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+0.44

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

Jared F. Golden's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

71%Closest

69%

65%

60%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

57%

Communist Party USA

55%

On the political map

Jared F. Golden (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

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 Goldensits 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

Blue Dog Coalitionleft · 10 members
Problem Solvers Caucuscenter · 46 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
Seapower and Projection Forces Intelligence and Special Operations
House Committee on Natural Resourcescenter · 45 members
Energy and Mineral Resources Federal Lands Water, Wildlife and Fisheries

Most and least aligned members

Treating Golden'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.