Nancy Pelosi
Democrat · CA-11 · U.S. House
CA-11 — U.S. House
Safe D 99%Nancy Pelosi 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
Nancy Patricia Pelosi is an American politician who was the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first female elected speaker and the first woman to lead a major political party in either chamber of Congress, heading the House Democrats from 2003 to 2023. Her 20 years as a House party leader are tied with Joe Martin's as the second-longest after Sam Rayburn. Pelosi is in her 20th term, having served in the House since 1987, representing California's 11th congressional district, which includes most of San Francisco. She is the dean of California's congressional delegation.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 39.7 years
- First took office
- 1987 (20 terms)
- Seniority
- 6 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 86
- House Minority Leader · 2011–2019
- Speaker of the House · 2019–2023
- daughter of Thomas D'Alesandro Jr.
- San Francisco, CA · 415-556-4862
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
- $86.2M – $415.2M
- Liabilities
- $61.0M – $152.0M
- Net worth
- −$65.8M – $354.2M
- Since 2019
- +$38.5M
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
Nancy Pelosi'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
Nancy Pelosi (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 Pelosi?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Pelosisits 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 Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Pelosi'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
Payback looms as Trump gets told to shove his bribeI have a confession, one I’m not necessarily proud of, and it’s this: I’m a little worried that Trump’s offer to pay $5,000 to every American adult if the Republicans somehow take the midterms is going to make a sufficient difference to enough indigent souls …
Raw Story · October 10, 2026
Why Does Gavin Newsom Keep Helping the Oligarchs?This year Gavin Newsom has shown that he would be a billionaire-friendly president. Which means he shouldn’t be president at all. In short order, we will all have a huge field of Democratic presidential hopefuls to keep up with, but Newsom has done us a favor…
The New Republic · October 9, 2026
Pelosi-backed US candidate calls for ‘full arms embargo’ on IsraelConnie Chan, endorsed by Nancy Pelosi to succeed her in California, says she will vote to 'end a genocide in Gaza'.
Al Jazeera English · October 3, 2026
Two Democrats Competing to Replace Pelosi, Live OnstageThe two candidates vying to replace Rep. Nancy Pelosi in Congress faced off in a live onstage debate at KQED on Oct. 1, moderated by Political Breakdown co-hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos and the San Francisco Chronicle’s Joe Garofoli. City Supervisor Co…
KQED · October 3, 2026
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