Nick LaLota
Republican · NY-1 · U.S. House
NY-1 — U.S. House
Lean R 79%Nick LaLota is on the ballot. Chris Gallant vs. Nick LaLota.
Bio
Nicholas Joseph LaLota is an American politician and veteran serving since 2023 as the U.S. representative for New York's 1st congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.7 years
- First took office
- 2023 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 332 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 48
- Rocky Point, NY · 631-289-1097
- Hauppauge, NY · 631-289-1097
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
- $179k – $560k
- Liabilities
- $500k – $1.0M
- Net worth
- −$821k – $60k
- Since 2023
- +$84k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 10 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
Nick LaLota'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
Nick LaLota (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.
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Caucuses & committees
Where LaLotasits 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
- Problem Solvers Caucuscenter · 46 members
- Republican Governance Groupstrongly right · 44 members
- Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 141 members
Committees
- House Committee on Appropriationscenter · 63 members
- House Committee on Homeland Securitycenter · 33 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating LaLota'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
Democrat used to model fetish gay sex attireThe private life of a Democrat running for Congress has made national news after old photos reveal he used to model leather sexual attire and other "bondage gear," according to a report from the New York Post.The Post confirmed that Chris Gallant, a 37-year-o…
TheBlaze · September 14, 2026
Congressional candidate modelled BDSM gear before turning to politics – and honestly, good for himA New York Democratic congressional candidate is facing attention over a very unexpected part of his past. Chris Gallant, 37, who is running against Republican Rep. Nick LaLota in New York’s First Congressional District, previously appeared in BDSM-themed pro…
Thepinknews.com · September 14, 2026- NY Dem House candidate modeled for XXX-rated BDSM ads while serving in National Guard
This New York pol has a secret BDSM past. Chris Gallant, 37, the Democratic nominee running against Long Island Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY) was previously involved in a very different kind of campaign: selling toys as a model for a fetish sex shop, The Post can r…
Freerepublic.com · September 14, 2026 
Democratic Candidate Once Modeled for Fetish Sex Shop“Chris Gallant, the Democratic nominee running against Long Island Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY) was previously involved in a very different kind of campaign: selling toys as a model for a fetish sex shop,” the New York Post reports. “Gallant appeared in multiple p…
Politicalwire.com · September 13, 2026
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