Thom Tillis
Republican · NC · U.S. Senate
Thom Tillis is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026. Roy Cooper vs. Michael Whatley.
D +14 points of win probability since January.
Bio
Thomas Roland Tillis is an American businessman and politician who has served as the senior United States senator from North Carolina since 2015. From 2007 to 2015, Tillis served in the North Carolina House of Representatives, of which he was speaker from 2011 to 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 11.7 years
- First took office
- 2015 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 64 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 66
- Senate class
- 2 · senior senator
- Greenville, NC · 252-329-0371
- Hendersonville, NC · 828-693-8750
- Raleigh, NC · 919-856-4630
- Greensboro, NC · 336-885-0685
- Charlotte, NC · 704-509-9087
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
- $3.5M – $10.6M
- Liabilities
- $200k – $500k
- Net worth
- $3.0M – $10.4M
- Since 2018
- +$1.2M
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
Thom Tillis'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
Thom Tillis (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Tillissits 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.
Committees
- Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europecenter · 9 members
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairscenter · 24 members
- Senate Committee on Financecenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairscenter · 19 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Tillis'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 Suddenly Isn’t So Sure About Hegseth’s Public Execution PlansPresident Donald Trump has privately expressed his distaste for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan.Axios reported Monday that the president “didn’t sound particularly enthusiastic” ab…
The New Republic · Yesterday
Even Mike Johnson Recoils Over Plan for Livestreamed ExecutionEven Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson disapproves of the Trump administration’s planned live execution of Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan. Johnson made his position known during a CBS News interview over the weekend. “The concern would be that it would crea…
The New Republic · Yesterday
Trump announced a Russia-Ukraine 'energy ceasefire.' Zelensky says strikes continued.[Getty Images] Donald Trump has claimed that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to an "energy ceasefire", with Kyiv saying it would support such a move but Moscow yet to comment.The US president insisted that it was "effective immediately" but provided no detai…
BBC News · Yesterday
US Senators question legality of Trump's deal to allow Russian oil importsA bipartisan group of US Senators have questioned the legality of President Donald Trump's decision to allow diesel imports from Russia, contending that it ran counter to a law banning such trade till Moscow ends the war in Ukraine. On Friday, after a phone c…
Business Standard · Yesterday
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