Troy Balderson
Republican · OH-12 · U.S. House
OH-12 — U.S. House
Safe R 99%Troy Balderson is on the ballot. Jerrad Christian vs. Troy Balderson. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Record of service
- In office
- 8.1 years
- First took office
- 2018 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 188 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 64
- Pickerington, OH · 614-523-2555
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
- $215k – $550k
- Liabilities
- $100k – $250k
- Net worth
- −$35k – $450k
- Since 2019
- +$135k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 3 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
Troy Balderson'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
Troy Balderson (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 Baldersonsits 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
- Republican Governance Groupstrongly right · 44 members
- Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 141 members
Committees
- House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Balderson'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
'Ask me in 60 days': GOP lawmakers mysteriously refuse to pledge whether they'll run againMore lawmakers could be joining the Republican exodus from the U.S. House of Representatives.About two dozen GOP House members have already said they don't plan to seek re-election, and NOTUS surveyed more than 120 members – about half the House Republican Co…
Raw Story · December 18, 2025
Ohio Lawmaker Offers Bill To Codify Trump’s Energy PoliciesBy Jacob Adams, The Daily Signal | October 23, 2025 A Republican congressman from Ohio is seeking to win the next battle over America’s energy supply before it starts. In legislation introduced this week, Rep. Troy Balderson, R-Ohio, is seeking to codify Trum…
Biztoc.com · October 24, 2025- RFK Jr. Says Trump Admin Going to Encourage All Americans to Use Wearables
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will soon start a massive advertising blitz to encourage uptake of wearables such as fitness trackers among Americans, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on June 24. “We’re about to launch one of the …
Freerepublic.com · June 25, 2025 
Health Secretary Wants Every American To Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four YearsHealth and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a major federal campaign to promote wearable health tech, aiming for every American to adopt a device within four years as part of a broader effort to "Make America Healthy Again." Gizmodo re…
Slashdot.org · June 25, 2025
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