Juan Vargas
Democrat · CA-52 · U.S. House
CA-52 — U.S. House
Safe D 99%Juan Vargas is on the ballot. Juan Vargas vs. Jeff Belle. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Juan Carlos Vargas is an American businessman and politician who has been a U.S. representative for California since 2013. His district includes the southernmost portions of San Diego County.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 13.7 years
- First took office
- 2013 (7 terms)
- Seniority
- 104 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 65
- Chula Vista, CA · 619-422-5963
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
- $3.4M – $15.8M
- Liabilities
- $1.2M – $2.4M
- Net worth
- $981k – $14.6M
- Since 2019
- +$3.7M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 9 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
Juan Vargas'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
Juan Vargas (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 Vargas?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Vargassits 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
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Congressional Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Vargas'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
Fraud-convicted GOP candidate accused of exploiting five ex-wives: reportA San Diego Republican is running for Congress despite a decades-long record of fraud, false claims, and ex-wives who feel exploited.According to a Monday article by the San Diego Union-Tribune, Jeff Belle is the only Republican challenging longtime Rep. Juan…
Raw Story · September 7, 2026
Every Democrat Who Voted to Defund Schools That Boycott IsraelOn Thursday, 33 Democrats joined Republicans to pass a law that would take federal funding away from academic institutions involved in any kind of boycott of or divestment from Israel. The legislation passed 237–169.The Protect Economic and Academic Freedom A…
The New Republic · September 3, 2026
Rep. Juan Vargas denies receiving AIPAC money, contradicting the public recordCampaign finance records show the Democratic member of Congress representing San Diego’s South Bay has received over $200,000 from the pro-Israel group in recent election cycles. But he denies ever receiving a penny.
KPBS · April 22, 2026
Lone Democrat—Jared Golden—Helps GOP Tank Another Iran War Powers ResolutionWith the decisive support of one Democrat—Rep. Jared Golden of Maine—the Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Thursday voted down a war powers resolution aimed at ending President Donald Trump's illegal assault on Iran, over six weeks after it be…
Common Dreams · April 16, 2026
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