Shomari Figures
Democrat · AL-2 · U.S. House
AL-2 — U.S. House
Lean R 78%Shomari Figures is on the ballot. Shomari Figures vs. Rhett Marques. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Shomari Coleman Figures is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative from Alabama's 2nd congressional district since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, Figures was first elected in 2024.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 1.7 years
- First took office
- 2025 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 369 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 41
- Montgomery, AL · 334-777-5700
- Mobile, AL · 251-283-6280
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
- $680k – $2.2M
- Liabilities
- $1.4M – $5.7M
- Net worth
- −$5.0M – $850k
- Since 2024
- −$2.4M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 5 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
Shomari Figures'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
Shomari Figures (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 Figures?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Figuressits 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 Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Committees
- House Committee on Agriculturecenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 67 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Figures'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
Trump makes 'confounding decision' in deep-red state as Dems make other gains: reportPresident Donald Trump is tentatively planning a rally in deep-red Alabama next week, even as Democrats signal they may spend money in Kansas and other Republican strongholds they once considered out of reach.Politico reported that the rally is penciled in fo…
Raw Story · September 25, 2026
Every Democrat Who Voted Against Impeaching TrumpHouse Democrats launched another Hail Mary bid to impeach President Donald Trump, but the effort was undercut by members of their own party.More than a dozen Democrats joined 213 Republicans in voting “no” Tuesday night. Another 46 Democrats simply voted “pre…
The New Republic · September 16, 2026
Donald Trump's Major Student Loan Change Would Be Reversed Under BillA new bill introduced by Representative Shomari Figures, an Alabama Democrat, would reverse one of the most significant student loan changes enacted under President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill. The proposal, known as the Restoring Opportunity for Ad…
Biztoc.com · September 2, 2026
Every House Member Who’s Still Not at Work After a Five-Week VacationThe House of Representatives has returned from its five-week summer vacation, but for more than three dozen members that extended break apparently wasn’t enough.According to the House clerk, 46 lawmakers failed to make it back to Washington in time for the fi…
The New Republic · September 1, 2026
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