
Kathy Castor
Democrat · FL-14 · U.S. House
FL-14 — U.S. House
Toss-up 62%Kathy Castor is on the ballot. Kathy Castor vs. Mike Beltran. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Katherine Anne Castor is an American politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 14th congressional district since 2007. The district, based in Tampa, was numbered as the 11th district from 2007 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served on the Hillsborough County Commission from 2002 to 2006.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 19.7 years
- First took office
- 2007 (10 terms)
- Seniority
- 56 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 60
- Tampa, FL · 813-871-2817
- St. Petersburg, FL · 727-369-0201
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
- $8.0M – $31.9M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $8.0M – $31.9M
- Since 2019
- +$12.9M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 65 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
Kathy Castor'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
Kathy Castor (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 Castor?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Castorsits 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 Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Castor'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
Transcript: Trump Polls Turn Brutal as Allies Panic: “Worse than 2006”The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.Today we’re…
The New Republic · October 8, 2026
Florida GOP nominee blasts 20-year Dem incumbent as a 'socialist' rubber-stamp with 'precious little to show'Former Florida legislator Mike Beltran seeks to oust 10-term incumbent Kathy Castor in 14th district, arguing she has been ineffective and out of touch with constituents.
Fox News · September 25, 2026
MAGA panics as lifelong Republican vows to support Dems: ‘Bro we need your vote’Robbie Smither, a Kentucky conservative and former Republican candidate for local office, vowed to vote for a Democrat “for the first time,” prompting former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to beg him to reconsider.“When I vote for a Democrat, [Florida gubernatorial…
Raw Story · September 22, 2026
Trump rages at 'Evil Cause' sweeping America — but GOP senator leading the charge anywayWASHINGTON — The rare 2026 issue that draws huge support from Republicans and Democrats in Congress is the same one that’s mobilized many Americans: restrictions on giant data centers.The House has overwhelmingly passed legislation forcing state regulators to…
Raw Story · September 21, 2026
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