Tina Smith
Democrat · MN · U.S. Senate
Tina Smith is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026. Peggy Flanagan vs. Michele Tafoya.
D +25 points of win probability since February.
Record of service
- In office
- 8.7 years
- First took office
- 2018 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 75 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 68
- Senate class
- 2 · junior senator
- Moorhead, MN · 218-284-8721
- Duluth, MN · 218-722-2390
- Saint Paul, MN · 651-221-1016
- Rochester, MN · 507-218-2003
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
- $3.2M – $7.0M
- Liabilities
- $750k – $1.5M
- Net worth
- $1.7M – $6.2M
- Since 2018
- −$78k
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
Tina Smith'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
Tina Smith (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 Smithsits 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
- Senate Committee on Indian Affairscenter · 11 members
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestrycenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairscenter · 24 members
- Senate Committee on Financecenter · 27 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Smith'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
Who is Michele Tafoya? Ex-sideline reporter aims to turn Minnesota red in Senate race.When it comes to the battle for control of the U.S. Senate, Republicans are mostly playing defense. The lion’s share of the races that will decide which party secures a majority in November are in red states — including Texas, Iowa and Ohio — where the GOP is…
Yahoo Entertainment · October 5, 2026
China Has Sensitive F-35 Parts Diverted to Hong Kong"Balance of Power" focuses on the intersection of politics and global business. On today's show, Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) says ...
Biztoc.com · September 24, 2026
Republican busted for flagrantly lying about being 'embarrassed' of her home stateMichele Tafoya, the Republican Senate nominee in Minnesota, recently denied ever saying she was embarrassed to be from the state she wants to represent, but a digital deep-dive review by CNN's KFile found she had done just that.In a local radio interview earl…
Raw Story · September 23, 2026
Trump Admin Jailing 'Random Somali Immigrants With No Criminal Record' at GuantánamoAnger is growing this week as more details emerge about the Trump administration's detention of Somali immigrants at Guantánamo Bay, including people with no criminal records and, in at least one case, a legal US resident.At least eight Somali men are being h…
Common Dreams · September 17, 2026
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