Marcy Kaptur
Democrat · OH-9 · U.S. House
OH-9 — U.S. House
Toss-up 59%Marcy Kaptur is on the ballot. Marcy Kaptur vs. Derek Merrin. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Marcia Carolyn Kaptur is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 9th congressional district since 1983. Her district stretches across northwestern Ohio along the southern shore of Lake Erie and includes parts of Toledo and surrounding communities. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 43.7 years
- First took office
- 1983 (22 terms)
- Seniority
- 4 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 80
- Toledo, OH · 419-259-7500
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
- $695k – $1.6M
- Liabilities
- $30k – $100k
- Net worth
- $595k – $1.6M
- Since 2019
- +$932k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 14 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
Marcy Kaptur'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
Marcy Kaptur (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 Kaptur?
Answer a few questions on the issues and see which members of Congress — and which party — actually line up with you.
Caucuses & committees
Where Kaptursits 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.
Most and least aligned members
Treating Kaptur'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
Dems in tight races backpedal on trans messaging — after voting to support biological men in women’s sportsRep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) declared in a recent ad, "I voted with Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of our schools because parents know what’s best for their kids."
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