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Ron Estes

Republican · KS-4 · U.S. House

On the ballot in 2026

KS-4 — U.S. House

Safe R 99%

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Record of service

In office
9.4 years
First took office
2017 (5 terms)
Seniority
183 of 439 by time served
Age
70
District offices
  • Wichita, KS · 316-262-8992
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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

2019
$1.1M
2020
$1.1M
2021
$1.3M
2022
$1.0M
2023
$477k
2024
$650k
2025
$669k
Most recent filing (2025)
Assets
$385k – $1.3M
Liabilities
$110k – $265k
Net worth
$120k – $1.2M
Since 2019
−$382k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 34 assets reported
KPERS 457 ⇒ DFA US Large Cap Value 1$100k – $250k
KPERS 457 ⇒ T Rowe Price Capital Appreciation$100k – $250k
Spouse 401k - Stand Together Benefits, LLC 401K Plan ⇒ State Street Target Retire 2030 SL $100k – $250k
Investment ⇒ US Treasury Savings Bonds$15k – $50k
KPERS 457 ⇒ Stable Value Fund - Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company$15k – $50k
KPERS 457 ⇒ Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Inst$15k – $50k
Bank ⇒ Mid American Credit Union$1k – $15k
Dependent Coverdale college savings ⇒ Putnam Large Cap Value Fund - A$1k – $15k
Roth IRA ⇒ American Balanced Fund Cl F3$1k – $15k
Roth IRA ⇒ American Mutual Fund Cl F3$1k – $15k
Roth IRA ⇒ Dodge & Cox Income Fund$1k – $15k
Roth IRA ⇒ Invesco Corporate Bond Fund Cl R6 (ICBFX)$1k – $15k
Roth IRA ⇒ Invesco Global Opportunities Cl R6$1k – $15k
Roth IRA ⇒ Investment Company of America - American Funds$1k – $15k
Roth IRA ⇒ JP Morgan Mid Cap Value Cl L$1k – $15k
Roth IRA ⇒ New Perspective Fund Cl F3 - American Funds$1k – $15k
Roth IRA ⇒ T. Rowe Price Integrated U.S. Small-Cap Growth Equity Fund - Class I (TQAIX)$1k – $15k
Roth IRA ⇒ Vanguard Total World Stock Index ETF (VT)$1k – $15k
Spouse 401k - TruStage Financial Group ⇒ BR LP ldx 2030 G$1k – $15k
Spouse 403b - Lincoln Investment ⇒ American Funds Washington Mutual Invstrs Fd - F1$1k – $15k
Spouse 403b - Lincoln Investment ⇒ FederatedHermes Prime Cash Obl AS$1k – $15k
Spouse 403b - Lincoln Investment ⇒ Goldman Sachs Intl Equity Insights Fund - A$1k – $15k
Spouse 403b - Lincoln Investment ⇒ GoldmanSachs Emerging Mkt Eq A$1k – $15k
Spouse 403b - Lincoln Investment ⇒ JPMorgan SmCap Equity A$1k – $15k
Spouse 403b - Lincoln Investment ⇒ Parnassus Mid Cap Fund - Inv$1k – $15k
Spouse 403b - Lincoln Investment ⇒ PGIM High Yield Fund - A$1k – $15k
Spouse 403b - Lincoln Investment ⇒ PRIMECAP Odyssey Growth Fund$1k – $15k
Spouse 403b - Lincoln Investment ⇒ PRIMECAP Odyssey Stock Fund$1k – $15k
Spouse Deferred Comp - MA ⇒ SMART Capital Preservation Fund$1k – $15k
Spouse Roth IRA - Putnam Investments ⇒ Putnam Intl Capital Opps - A$1k – $15k
Spouse Roth IRA - Putnam Investments ⇒ Putnam Large Cap Value Fund A$1k – $15k
Roth IRA ⇒ U.S. Treasury Money Fund - I Class (TRGXX)$1 – $1k
Spouse 403b - Lincoln Investment ⇒ PIMCO International Bond Fund - A$1 – $1k

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

FiscalHealthImmig.GunsAbortionEnviron.CrimeDefenseEconomyForeignCivil R.Educ.GovtJudicial
Taxes & Fiscal
R+0.81
Healthcare
R+0.76
Immigration & Border
R+0.91
Guns
R+1.00
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
R+0.84
Environment & Energy
R+0.85
Crime & Policing
R+0.92
Defense & Veterans
R+0.73
Economy & Labor
R+0.81
Foreign Policy & Trade
R+0.62
Civil Rights & Social
R+0.46
Education
R+0.71
Government & Democracy
R+0.86
Judicial & Executive Nominations
R+0.34

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

Ron Estes's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Republican Party
91%
Libertarian Party
66%
Democratic Party
30%
Green Party
21%
Democratic Socialists (DSA)
17%
Communist Party USA
15%

On the political map

Ron Estes (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Socially conservativeSocially progressiveEconomic leftEconomic rightEstes
Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

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 Estessits 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

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Estes'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.

Most aligned

Jodey C. Arrington
R · TX-19 · House
+100%
Neal P. Dunn
R · FL-2 · House
+100%
Mike Johnson
R · LA-4 · House
+100%
Brian J. Mast
R · FL-21 · House
+100%
Claudia Tenney
R · NY-24 · House
+100%

Least aligned

Greg Casar
D · TX-35 · House
−98%
Pramila Jayapal
D · WA-7 · House
−98%
Ilhan Omar
D · MN-5 · House
−98%
Becca Balint
D · VT · House
−98%
Summer L. Lee
D · PA-12 · House
−98%

Recent notable votes

YEA
Ratepayer Protection Act
2026-09-16 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor, Government & Democracy
YEA
Retire through Ownership Act
2026-09-16 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Taxes & Fiscal
YEA
Retire through Ownership Act
2026-09-16 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Taxes & Fiscal
YEA
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the "California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Commercial Harbor Craft Regulations; Notice of Decision".
2026-09-16 · Passed · Environment & Energy
YEA
Water Resources Development Act of 2026
2026-09-16 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor
NAY
Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.
2026-09-15 · Passed · Foreign Policy & Trade, Defense & Veterans, Government & Democracy
YEA
Fostering the Use of Technology to Uphold Regulatory Effectiveness in Supervision Act
2026-09-15 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Government & Democracy
YEA
Whistleblower Protection Act of 2025
2026-09-15 · Passed · Government & Democracy
YEA
Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2025
2026-09-15 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor
YEA
Tax Relief for Fraud Victims Act
2026-09-15 · Passed · Taxes & Fiscal, Crime & Policing
NAY
Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.
2026-09-15 · Passed · Foreign Policy & Trade, Defense & Veterans, Government & Democracy
YEA
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 9576) to establish the National Fraud Enforcement Division of the Department of Justice; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 10326) to enhance information-sharing capabilities between Federal law enforcement and State agencies to detect, investigate, and prosecute fraud in certain Federal programs, and to protect individual privacy; providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 210) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to ‘‘California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Ocean-Going Vessels At-Berth; Notice of Decision''; providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 213) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the ‘‘California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Commercial Harbor Craft Regulations; Notice of Decision''; and providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 5334) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow early childhood educators to take the educator expense deduction, and for other purposes.
2026-09-15 · Passed · Government & Democracy, Crime & Policing, Environment & Energy, Taxes & Fiscal, Education

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