
Raja Krishnamoorthi
Democrat · IL-8 · U.S. House
IL-8 — U.S. House
Safe D 95%Raja Krishnamoorthi is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Melissa Bean vs. Jennifer Davis.
Record of service
- In office
- 9.7 years
- First took office
- 2017 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 168 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 53
- Schaumburg, IL · 847-413-1959
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
- $2.4M – $5.5M
- Liabilities
- $250k – $600k
- Net worth
- $1.8M – $5.3M
- Since 2019
- +$2.0M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 42 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
Raja Krishnamoorthi'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
Raja Krishnamoorthi (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 Krishnamoorthisits 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
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Committees
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
- House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligencecenter · 27 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Krishnamoorthi'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
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