Wesley Bell
Democrat · MO-1 · U.S. House
MO-1 — U.S. House
Safe D 99%Wesley Bell is on the ballot. Wesley Bell vs. Paul Berry. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Wesley Jonell-Cleavon Bell is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Missouri's 1st congressional district, based in St. Louis, since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as prosecuting attorney for St. Louis County, Missouri, from 2019 to 2025.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 1.7 years
- First took office
- 2025 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 395 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 51
- St. Louis, MO · 314-955-9980
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
- $15k – $50k
- Liabilities
- $200k – $500k
- Net worth
- −$485k – −$150k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 1 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
Wesley Bell'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
Wesley Bell (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.
Do you vote like Bell?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Bellsits 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
- Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
- House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Bell'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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The New Republic · September 8, 2026
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A bipartisan six-member delegation from the U.S. House of Representatives met with President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Astana on August 25, two days after Kazakhstan elected the first members of its new unicameral Kurultai. Tokayev called the timing symbolic a…
Freerepublic.com · August 27, 2026 
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Common Dreams · August 25, 2026
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