Vicente Gonzalez
Democrat · TX-34 · U.S. House
TX-34 — U.S. House
Toss-up 50%Vicente Gonzalez is on the ballot. Vicente Gonzalez vs. Eric Flores. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
D +2 points of win probability since July.
Record of service
- In office
- 9.7 years
- First took office
- 2017 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 179 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 59
- Kingsville, TX · 956-682-5545
- Brownsville, TX · 956-682-5545
- Weslaco, TX · 956-682-5545
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.
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
Vicente Gonzalez'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
Vicente Gonzalez (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 Gonzalezsits 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
- Blue Dog Coalitionleft · 10 members
- Congressional Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Gonzalez'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
Dem who ripped rival’s donor-fueled 'good life' dropped campaign cash on Disney, spouse travelRep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, accused a GOP rival of ‘living the good life’ on donor money, but his campaign reported nearly $20K in spending around his own trips to Disney World, the UAE and Europe
Fox News · October 8, 2026
Transcript: Trump Polls Turn Brutal as Allies Panic: “Worse than 2006”The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.Today we’re…
The New Republic · October 8, 2026- Transcript: Trump Midterm Tirade Accidentally Reveals Key GOP Weakness
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 2 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.This week, …
The New Republic · October 2, 2026 
Can GOP’s Eric Flores Unseat Democrat Vicente Gonzalez in Texas’ 34th District?Texas’ 34th Congressional District is gearing up to be a highly contested race in the upcoming November election. The district covers parts of South Texas and the Gulf Coast, including Brownsville and Harlingen. The current representative for the district i…
Daily Signal · September 22, 2026
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