Shri Thanedar
Democrat · MI-13 · U.S. House
MI-13 — U.S. House
Safe D 99%Shri Thanedar is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Donavan McKinney vs. T. P. Nykoriak.
Bio
Shrinivas Prasad Thanedar is an American businessman, author, and politician serving as the U.S. representative from Michigan's 13th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Thanedar served as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2021 to 2023. He was also a candidate in the Democratic primary for Governor of Michigan in the 2018 election. First elected to Congress in 2022, then again in 2024, Thanedar lost renomination in 2026 in the Democratic primary to democratic socialist Donavan McKinney.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.7 years
- First took office
- 2023 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 322 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 71
- Detroit, MI · 313-880-2400
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
- $23.0M – $100.3M
- Liabilities
- $6.0M – $30.1M
- Net worth
- −$7.1M – $94.3M
- Since 2023
- +$25.8M
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
Shri Thanedar'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
Shri Thanedar (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.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Thanedarsits 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
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Agriculturecenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Homeland Securitycenter · 33 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Thanedar'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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Business Standard · October 11, 2026
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Gainpower.org · September 25, 2026
Every Democrat Who Voted to Defund Schools That Boycott IsraelOn Thursday, 33 Democrats joined Republicans to pass a law that would take federal funding away from academic institutions involved in any kind of boycott of or divestment from Israel. The legislation passed 237–169.The Protect Economic and Academic Freedom A…
The New Republic · September 3, 2026
Congressman Shri Thanedar Disclosed a January Apple Stock Sale Worth up to $250,000 171 Days After the Legal DeadlineOn Jan. 9, Rep. Shri Thanedar of Michigan reported the sale of Apple (AAPL) common stock in an amount between $100,001 and $250,000. The public learned about the sale on Aug. 13… 171 days after the disclosure was due. The transaction and the dates come from T…
Biztoc.com · August 21, 2026
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