Mario Diaz-Balart
Republican · FL-26 · U.S. House
FL-26 — U.S. House
Safe R 97%Mario Diaz-Balart is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Nicole Locklin vs. Mario Díaz-Balart. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Mario Rafael Díaz-Balart y Caballero is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 26th congressional district. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in 2002, and his district includes much of northwestern Miami-Dade County, including Hialeah, and much of the northern portion of the Everglades.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 23.7 years
- First took office
- 2003 (12 terms)
- Seniority
- 40 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 65
- brother of Lincoln Diaz Balart
- Doral, FL · 305-470-8555
- Naples, FL · 239-348-1620
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
- $55k – $176k
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $55k – $176k
- Since 2019
- +$518k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 7 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
Mario Diaz-Balart'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
Mario Diaz-Balart (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Diaz-Balartsits 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
Committees
Most and least aligned members
Treating Diaz-Balart'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
WSJ warns red state gambit could cost GOP dearly: 'How confident are Republicans?'The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board has a warning for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis: if you move forward with re-gerrymandering your state, it might not turn out the way you're hoping.This comes as the architect of DeSantis' new congressional map…
Raw Story · April 29, 2026
'Carpetbagger primary': Consultant rips GOP candidates flooding red state to 'rehab' imageRepublicans are flocking to Florida after previously running for Congress from other states, annoying one GOP strategist enough to complain the Sunshine State isn't a vehicle for them to "rehab" their images.Axios reported Thursday night that a whopping five …
Raw Story · October 3, 2025
'They're human beings!' Republicans cheering ICE raids change their tune behind the scenesRepublican lawmakers are publicly celebrating President Donald Trump's immigration raids and mass deportations, but behind the scenes, they're doing something else. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), one of the most conservative members of Congress, said he's "going to ba…
Raw Story · July 21, 2025- Key Republican calls for emergency funding to Israel amid worsening Iran conflict
A key House Republican says Congress should consider sending emergency U.S. aid to Israel amid its worsening conflict with Iran. "Yeah, absolutely," Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., said when asked about a supplemental funding package in the event the crisis b…
Freerepublic.com · June 17, 2025
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