Richard Hudson
Republican · NC-9 · U.S. House
NC-9 — U.S. House
Likely R 94%Richard Hudson is on the ballot. Richard Ojeda vs. Richard Hudson. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Richard Lane Hudson Jr. is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 9th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, his district covers a large part of the southern Piedmont area from Concord to Spring Lake.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 13.7 years
- First took office
- 2013 (7 terms)
- Seniority
- 109 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 54
- House Republican Conference Secretary · 2021–2023
- Fayetteville, NC · 910-997-2070
- Southern Pines, NC · 910-910-1924
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
- $104k – $386k
- Liabilities
- $275k – $565k
- Net worth
- −$461k – $111k
- Since 2019
- +$55k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 14 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
Richard Hudson'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
Richard Hudson (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 Hudson?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Hudsonsits 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 Study Committeestrongly right · 141 members
Committees
- House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Hudson'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
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The New Republic · June 24, 2026
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