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Sam T. Liccardo

Democrat · CA-16 · U.S. House

On the ballot in 2026

CA-16 — U.S. House

Safe D 99%

Sam T. Liccardo is on the ballot. Sam Liccardo vs. Peter Soulé. Runs on a newly enacted district map.

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Bio

Samuel Theodore Liccardo is an American attorney and politician currently serving as the U.S. representative from California's 16th congressional district. Previously, he served as the 65th mayor of San Jose from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Liccardo was elected mayor in November 2014. He was reelected in 2018 with 75.8% of the vote. As the leader of the California Big City Mayors Coalition, Liccardo advocated on statewide issues including homelessness and COVID-19 response.

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Record of service

In office
1.7 years
First took office
2025 (1 terms)
Seniority
374 of 439 by time served
Age
56
District offices
  • Half Moon Bay, CA
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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

2023
$4.4M
2024
$7.8M
2025
$7.1M
Most recent filing (2025)
Assets
$3.4M – $13.7M
Liabilities
$1.0M – $2.0M
Net worth
$1.4M – $12.7M
Since 2023
+$2.6M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 50 assets reported
Residential Property$1.0M – $5.0M
Residential Property$1.0M – $5.0M
CalPERS Pension Sam Liccardo ⇒ CalPERS$250k – $500k
Fidelity 457 ⇒ BrokerageLink ⇒ Fidelity ZERO Large Cap Index Fund (FNILX)$100k – $250k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF (QQQM)$100k – $250k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Schwab S&P 500 Index Fund- Select Shares (SWPPX)$100k – $250k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ SWPPX$100k – $250k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ U.S. Treasuries$100k – $250k
Spouse Schwab IRA ⇒ Schwab S&P 500 Index Fund- Select Shares (SWPPX)$100k – $250k
Capital Gains, Interest None Fidelity 457 ⇒ BrokerageLink ⇒ Fidelity Select Utilities Grow$50k – $100k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ FHLB (9/2026)$50k – $100k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Schwab Prime Advantage Fund$50k – $100k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab Roth IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ NVIDIA Corporation - Common Stock (NVDA)$50k – $100k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab Roth IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)$50k – $100k
Spouse Schwab IRA ⇒ Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF (QQQM)$50k – $100k
Spouse Schwab IRA ⇒ SWVXX$50k – $100k
Spouse Schwab IRA ⇒ U.S. Treasuries$50k – $100k
Fidelity 457 ⇒ BrokerageLink ⇒ Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)$15k – $50k
Schwab ⇒ Joint Trading Account ⇒ Schwab S&P 500 Index Fund- Select Shares (SWPPX)$15k – $50k
Schwab ⇒ Joint Trading Account ⇒ U.S. Treasuries$15k – $50k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF (DGRO)$15k – $50k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab Roth IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ First Trust NASDAQ Cybersecurity ETF (CIBR)$15k – $50k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab Roth IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF (QQQM)$15k – $50k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab Roth IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Invesco Water Resources ETF (PHO)$15k – $50k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab Roth IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Schwab S&P 500 Index Fund- Select Shares (SWPPX$15k – $50k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab Trading Account -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF (QQQM)$15k – $50k
Spouse Schwab Roth IRA ⇒ Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1 (QQQ)$15k – $50k
Spouse Schwab Roth IRA ⇒ Schwab S&P 500 Index Fund- Select Shares (SWPPX)$15k – $50k
TreasuryDirect ⇒ Series I Savings Bond$15k – $50k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ American States Water Company Common Stock (AWR)$1k – $15k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Common Stock (BMY)$1k – $15k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ FHLB (3/2030)$1k – $15k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Schwab International Dividend Equity ETF (SCHY)$1k – $15k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab Roth IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Merck & Company, Inc. Common Stock (MRK)$1k – $15k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab Roth IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ NovoCure Limited - Ordinary Shares (NVCR)$1k – $15k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab SEP IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Schwab S&P 500 Index Fund- Select Shares (SWPPX)$1k – $15k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab Trading Account -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Schwab International Dividend Equity ETF$1k – $15k
Schwab ⇒ Schwab Trading Account -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF (SCHD)$1k – $15k
Spouse Schwab IRA ⇒ Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)$1k – $15k
Spouse Schwab IRA ⇒ Apple Inc. - Common Stock (AAPL)$1k – $15k

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
D+0.66
Healthcare
D+0.99
Immigration & Border
D+0.96
Guns
D+1.00
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
D+1.00
Environment & Energy
D+0.84
Crime & Policing
D+0.77
Defense & Veterans
D+0.51
Economy & Labor
D+0.48
Foreign Policy & Trade
D+0.64
Civil Rights & Social
D+0.82
Education
D+1.00
Government & Democracy
D+0.78
Judicial & Executive Nominations
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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

Sam T. Liccardo's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Green Party
91%
Democratic Socialists (DSA)
90%
Democratic Party
90%
Communist Party USA
89%
Libertarian Party
54%
Republican Party
27%

On the political map

Sam T. Liccardo (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Socially conservativeSocially progressiveEconomic leftEconomic rightLiccardo
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 Liccardosits 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 Liccardo'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

Laura Friedman
D · CA-30 · House
+100%
Sara Jacobs
D · CA-51 · House
+99%
Julie Johnson
D · TX-32 · House
+99%
Johnny Olszewski, Jr.
D · MD-2 · House
+99%
Jonathan L. Jackson
D · IL-1 · House
+99%

Least aligned

Mary E. Miller
R · IL-15 · House
−99%
Lauren Boebert
R · CO-4 · House
−99%
Andrew S. Clyde
R · GA-9 · House
−99%
Barry Moore
R · AL-1 · House
−99%
Byron Donalds
R · FL-19 · House
−99%

Recent notable votes

YEA
Water Resources Development Act of 2026
2026-09-16 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor
YEA
Retire through Ownership Act
2026-09-16 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Taxes & Fiscal
NAY
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
NAY
SEED Act
2026-09-16 · Passed · Taxes & Fiscal, Education
NAY
PROOF Act
2026-09-16 · Passed · Government & Democracy, Crime & Policing, Taxes & Fiscal
YEA
Ratepayer Protection Act
2026-09-16 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor, Government & Democracy
YEA
Water Resources Development Act of 2026
2026-09-16 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor
NAY
SEED Act
2026-09-16 · Passed · Taxes & Fiscal, Education
NAY
SEED Act
2026-09-16 · Passed · Taxes & Fiscal, Education
YEA
National Fraud Enforcement Division Act of 2026
2026-09-16 · Passed · Crime & Policing, 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

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