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Jim Costa

Democrat · CA-21 · U.S. House

On the ballot in 2026

CA-21 — U.S. House

Safe D 97%

Jim Costa is on the ballot. Jim Costa vs. Kyle Kirkland. Runs on a newly enacted district map.

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Bio

James Manuel Costa is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 21st congressional district since 2023. He previously represented the 20th congressional district from 2005 to 2013 and the 16th congressional district from 2013 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, his district includes most of Fresno.

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Record of service

In office
21.7 years
First took office
2005 (11 terms)
Seniority
46 of 439 by time served
Age
74
District offices
  • Visalia, CA · 559-749-9330
  • Fresno, CA · 559-495-1620
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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
$3.7M
2020
$3.8M
2021
$4.0M
2022
$4.1M
2023
$4.3M
2024
$3.3M
2025
$3.5M
Most recent filing (2025)
Assets
$1.9M – $7.1M
Liabilities
$600k – $1.3M
Net worth
$602k – $6.5M
Since 2019
−$160k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 25 assets reported
James M. Costa Farms (Sole Proprietorship)$1.0M – $5.0M
Rental Home$500k – $1.0M
Wells Fargo Advisors 401(k) ⇒ MFS SER TR 1 VALUE FD$50k – $100k
Wells Fargo Advisors 401(k) ⇒ NYLI Winslow Large Cap Growth Fund Class I (MLAIX)$50k – $100k
Wells Fargo Advisors 401(k) ⇒ T Rowe Price Overseas Stock Fund$50k – $100k
UMB Financial Corporation - Common Stock (UMBF)$15k – $50k
Wells Fargo Advisors 401(k) ⇒ Allspring Special Mid Cap Value Fund Insti Class (WFMIX)$15k – $50k
Wells Fargo Advisors 401(k) ⇒ American Funds Washington Mutual Investors Fund Class F-2$15k – $50k
Wells Fargo Advisors 401(k) ⇒ Baird Aggregate Bond Fund Class Institutional$15k – $50k
Wells Fargo Advisors 401(k) ⇒ Baron Invt Funds Trust Small Cap Fund$15k – $50k
Wells Fargo Advisors 401(k) ⇒ Baron Select Funds Emerging Markets FD$15k – $50k
Wells Fargo Advisors 401(k) ⇒ Dodge & Cox Stk FD$15k – $50k
Wells Fargo Advisors 401(k) ⇒ Eaton Vance Income Fund of Boston Class I$15k – $50k
Wells Fargo Advisors 401(k) ⇒ Embark Commodity Strategy Fund Institutional Class (ECSWX)$15k – $50k
Wells Fargo Advisors 401(k) ⇒ JPMorgan U.S. Equity Fund Class L (JMUEX)$15k – $50k
Wells Fargo Advisors 401(k) ⇒ JPMorgan Emerging Markets Equity Fund Class L (JMIEX)$15k – $50k
Wells Fargo Advisors 401(k) ⇒ ROWE T PRICE MID CAP GROWTH FUND$15k – $50k
Wells Fargo Advisors 401(k) ⇒ Victory Sycamore Small Co Oppty$15k – $50k
Bank of America$1k – $15k
Portuguese Fraternal Society of America$1k – $15k
United Security Bank$1k – $15k
Wells Fargo Advisors 401(k) ⇒ Causeway International Value Fund - Institutional Class (CIV$1k – $15k
Wells Fargo Advisors 401(k) ⇒ EuroPacific Growth Fund, Class F-2 Shs (AEPFX)$1k – $15k
Wells Fargo Advisors 401(k) ⇒ Goldman Sachs FS Treasury Instruments Fund$1k – $15k
Wells Fargo Advisors 401(k) ⇒ PIMCO Commodities Plus Strategy FD CL$1k – $15k

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

FiscalHealthImmig.GunsAbortionEnviron.CrimeDefenseEconomyForeignCivil R.Educ.GovtJudicial
Taxes & Fiscal
D+0.56
Healthcare
D+0.65
Immigration & Border
D+0.58
Guns
D+0.67
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
D+0.83
Environment & Energy
D+0.24
Crime & Policing
D+0.12
Defense & Veterans
D+0.05
Economy & Labor
D+0.21
Foreign Policy & Trade
D+0.05
Civil Rights & Social
D+0.89
Education
D+0.59
Government & Democracy
D+0.46
Judicial & Executive Nominations
R+0.03

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

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

Democratic Party
88%
Green Party
79%
Democratic Socialists (DSA)
74%
Communist Party USA
73%
Libertarian Party
64%
Republican Party
45%

On the political map

Jim Costa (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Socially conservativeSocially progressiveEconomic leftEconomic rightCosta
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 Costasits 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

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Costa'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.

Most aligned

Josh Harder
D · CA-9 · House
+95%
Frank J. Mrvan
D · IN-1 · House
+95%
Angie Craig
D · MN-2 · House
+95%
Chrissy Houlahan
D · PA-6 · House
+95%
Jake Auchincloss
D · MA-4 · House
+95%

Least aligned

Mary E. Miller
R · IL-15 · House
−88%
Lauren Boebert
R · CO-4 · House
−88%
Chip Roy
R · TX-21 · House
−87%
Byron Donalds
R · FL-19 · House
−87%
Andrew S. Clyde
R · GA-9 · House
−87%

Recent notable votes

YEA
Retire through Ownership Act
2026-09-16 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Taxes & Fiscal
YEA
National Fraud Enforcement Division Act of 2026
2026-09-16 · Passed · Crime & Policing, Government & Democracy
NAY
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the "California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Commercial Harbor Craft Regulations; Notice of Decision".
2026-09-16 · Passed · Environment & Energy
YEA
Water Resources Development Act of 2026
2026-09-16 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor
YEA
National Fraud Enforcement Division Act of 2026
2026-09-16 · Passed · Crime & Policing, Government & Democracy
YEA
Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2025
2026-09-15 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor
YEA
Whistleblower Protection Act of 2025
2026-09-15 · Passed · Government & Democracy
NAY
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Ocean-Going Vessels At-Berth; Notice of Decision".
2026-09-15 · Passed · Environment & Energy
NAY
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 9576) to establish the National Fraud Enforcement Division of the Department of Justice; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 10326) to enhance information-sharing capabilities between Federal law enforcement and State agencies to detect, investigate, and prosecute fraud in certain Federal programs, and to protect individual privacy; providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 210) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to ‘‘California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Ocean-Going Vessels At-Berth; Notice of Decision''; providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 213) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the ‘‘California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Commercial Harbor Craft Regulations; Notice of Decision''; and providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 5334) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow early childhood educators to take the educator expense deduction, and for other purposes.
2026-09-15 · Passed · Government & Democracy, Crime & Policing, Environment & Energy, Taxes & Fiscal, Education
YEA
GUARD Act
2026-09-15 · Passed · Crime & Policing, Economy & Labor
YEA
Fostering the Use of Technology to Uphold Regulatory Effectiveness in Supervision Act
2026-09-15 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Government & Democracy
NAY
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 9576) to establish the National Fraud Enforcement Division of the Department of Justice; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 10326) to enhance information-sharing capabilities between Federal law enforcement and State agencies to detect, investigate, and prosecute fraud in certain Federal programs, and to protect individual privacy; providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 210) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to ‘‘California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Ocean-Going Vessels At-Berth; Notice of Decision''; providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 213) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the ‘‘California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Commercial Harbor Craft Regulations; Notice of Decision''; and providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 5334) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow early childhood educators to take the educator expense deduction, and for other purposes.
2026-09-15 · Passed · Government & Democracy, Crime & Policing, Environment & Energy, Taxes & Fiscal, Education

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