Nicholas J. Begich III
Republican · AK · U.S. House
AK-1 — U.S. House
Safe R 99%Nicholas J. Begich III is on the ballot. Eric Hafner vs. Nick Begich III.
Bio
Nicholas Joseph Begich III is an American politician and businessman who has served as the U.S. representative for Alaska's at-large congressional district since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, he had previously run for the seat in the 2022 special and regular elections before his election in 2024.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 1.7 years
- First took office
- 2025 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 368 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 48
- Anchorage, AK · 907-921-6575
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 – $32.6M
- Liabilities
- $25k – $65k
- Net worth
- $7.9M – $32.6M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 69 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
Nicholas J. Begich III'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
Nicholas J. Begich III (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where IIIsits 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
- Freedom Caucusstrongly right · 31 members
Committees
- House Committee on Natural Resourcescenter · 45 members
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 67 members
- House Committee on Science, Space, and Technologycenter · 40 members
Most and least aligned members
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Recent notable votes
Latest news
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