Julia Letlow
Republican · LA-5 · U.S. House
LA-5 — U.S. House
Safe R 99%Julia Letlow is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Nominees are not yet set. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Julia Janelle Letlow is an American politician and academic administrator serving as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 5th congressional district since 2021. Letlow is the first Republican woman to represent Louisiana in the House.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 5.5 years
- First took office
- 2021 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 284 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 45
- Amite, LA · 985-284-5200
- Monroe, LA · 318-570-6440
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
- $333k – $2.7M
- Liabilities
- $100k – $250k
- Net worth
- $83k – $2.6M
- Since 2020
- +$1.5M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 169 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
Julia Letlow'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
Julia Letlow (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 Letlowsits 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 Governance Groupstrongly right · 44 members
- Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 141 members
Committees
- House Committee on Appropriationscenter · 63 members
- House Committee on Education and Workforcecenter · 37 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Letlow'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
How Julia Letlow, Jamie Davis are running for Senate in Louisiana — and how their styles differU.S. Rep. Julia Letlow and farmer Jamie Davis are taking sharply contrasting routes as they run for the same job – to be the next senator from Louisiana.
The Advocate · October 2, 2026- Louisiana Senate race between Jamie Davis, Julia Letlow is about to heat up. Here’s the latest.
After a sleepy summer, Louisiana’s U.S. Senate campaign appears likely to kick into high gear now that the election is less than 60 days away.
The Advocate · September 9, 2026 - Can Jamie Davis raise enough to challenge Julia Letlow for Louisiana Senate? See the numbers.
Republican Julia Letlow has big advantages in the contest for U.S. Senate in Louisiana, but Democrat Jamie Davis is touting a haul of $1.6 million as evidence he can run a competitive race.
The Advocate · July 22, 2026 
After Lindsey Graham's death, sister joins long list of relatives who replaced late family members in CongressFrom Julia Letlow to Adelita Grijalva, family succession in Congress has a long history that now includes Lindsey Graham's sister in the Senate.
Fox News · July 14, 2026
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