Sara Jacobs
Democrat · CA-51 · U.S. House
CA-51 — U.S. House
Safe D 99%Sara Jacobs is on the ballot. Sara Jacobs vs. Ricardo Cabrera. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Sara Josephine Jacobs is an American politician who has been the U.S. representative for California's 51st congressional district since 2023, previously representing the 53rd congressional district from 2021 to 2023. Her district includes central and eastern portions of San Diego, as well as eastern suburbs such as El Cajon, La Mesa, Spring Valley, and Lemon Grove. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the youngest member of California's congressional delegation. She was the caucus leadership representative for the 118th Congress, making her the youngest member of the Democratic House leadership.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 5.7 years
- First took office
- 2021 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 246 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 37
- San Diego, CA · 619-280-5353
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
- $28.7M – $141.6M
- Liabilities
- $1.3M – $5.5M
- Net worth
- $23.2M – $140.4M
- Since 2021
- +$4.5M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 37 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
Sara Jacobs'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
Sara Jacobs (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 Jacobs?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Jacobssits 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
- Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 95 members
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Committees
- House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
- House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 53 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Jacobs'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
'I'm not buying it': Republicans scoff at apocalyptic AI warnings as blatant money grabWASHINGTON, D.C. — Move over AI doomsday scenarios. Republicans seem to innately trust rapidly evolving artificial intelligence technology — even as they distrust the largest AI companies so much they’ve started spinning new conspiracies on Capitol Hill.Terri…
Raw Story · September 23, 2026
'We Cannot Wait for Disaster to Strike': Beyer Leads Bipartisan Push in House to Urgently Regulate AIA bipartisan coalition of lawmakers in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday released a joint letter urging congressional leaders to take immediate action to regulate the artificial intelligence industry.The group, led by Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), urged …
Common Dreams · September 16, 2026
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The New Republic · September 11, 2026
2 House Democrats face off for leadership slot that isn’t even open yetA fierce internal battle is developing among House Democrats for a job that might not even be open next Congress. Reps. Sara Jacobs of California and Lauren Underwood of Illinois are expected to seek the caucus vice chair post. The job is currently held by Re…
Biztoc.com · September 3, 2026
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