Jamaal Bowman

Former Representative for New York’s 16th District, 2021–2025 · Democrat

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Record from the 118th Congress · From public records: votes from Voteview, bills from congress.gov, money from FEC filings · votes updated Nov 10, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 118th Congress

How it’s measured
0.09· expected 0.60

Below expectations

Rank 427 of 445 who served in the House that Congress · expected = average of 218 minority-party members

How far Bowman’s own bills got, weighted by substance. The average member scores 1.00.

  1. Introduced 9
  2. Action in committee 1
  3. Action beyond committee 0
  4. Passed chamber 0
  5. Became law 0

9 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 0 significant (got a roll call vote), 9 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the House

How Bowman’s ratings compare with every representative

Ratings, 118th Congress

Scores run 0–100 and always sit next to a median. Each tick is one representative; the ringed marker is Bowman. Medians and ranks are among everyone who served in the 118th Congress’s House.

Bowman in plain answers: party votes, bipartisanship, who votes alike

Attendance

How it’s measured
86/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 171 missed of 1,235

Voted on 1,064 of 1,235 roll calls; missed 171. Lower than 96% of House members.

35%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
99/ 100

House D median 98 · Rank 101 of 218

Sided with the Democratic majority on 759 votes that split the parties. Higher than 67% of House members.

50%100%

Bipartisan

How it’s measured
13/ 100

Chamber median 16 · −3

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Lower than 79% of House members.

0%60%

Position

How it’s measured
−0.36

Democratic middle 80%: -0.52 to -0.24

Left–right position from roll-call similarity (DW-NOMINATE, Voteview), from −1 to +1. Members who vote alike sit near each other.

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Bowman’s bills that got action in committee or further

All bills

1 bill sponsored in the 118th Congress, furthest along first. These are the bills counted in Bowman’s effectiveness score.

How we count words

Stage comes from each bill’s latest action on congress.gov; the full history is on each bill page.