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Bennie G. Thompson

DemocratBennie G. Thompson

U.S. Representative · Mississippi

Mississippi's 2nd district

DemocratFederal

U.S. Representative from Mississippi

0 tracked promises

Mississippi · Mississippi's 2nd district

Mississippi's 2nd district

Their congressional district

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How they won their seat

Bennie G. Thompson won the 2024 U.S. House election in Mississippi (District 2) with 62% of the vote (177,885 votes).

62%
Win share
177,885
Votes for winner
286,841
Total cast
  • Bennie G. Thompson · Democrat62%
  • Ron Eller · Republican38%

Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.

Inferred legislative agendas

Bennie G. Thompson's record indicates a legislative focus on issues related to homeland security, emergency management, and law enforcement. His sponsored bills include the 'DHS Suicide Prevention and Resiliency for Law Enforcement Act' and the 'FEMA Cybersecurity Improvement Act'. Additionally, his role as Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security further emphasizes this focus. Focus areas (from the record): Homeland Security · Emergency Management · Law Enforcement · Cybersecurity · Public Safety Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The lack of declared positions or tracked promises limits the analysis of alignment with Thompson's legislative activities. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; There is no information on the politician's motives or intentions; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to analyze alignment with constituents' views. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Bennie G. Thompson has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.

Activity in office

What Bennie G. Thompson has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score.

Votes cast
609
Voted yea
250
Voted nay
333
Bills sponsored
239
Committees
1

Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
016324864VotesJun '25: 16 YeaJun '25: 24 NayJun '25Jul '25: 11 YeaJul '25: 22 NayJul '25Sep '25: 14 YeaSep '25: 48 NaySep '25Nov '25: 7 YeaNov '25: 16 NayNov '25Dec '25: 25 YeaDec '25: 32 NayDec '25Jan '26: 24 YeaJan '26: 20 NayJan '26Feb '26: 14 YeaFeb '26: 16 NayFeb '26Mar '26: 12 YeaMar '26: 17 NayMar '26Apr '26: 23 YeaApr '26: 24 NayApr '26May '26: 12 YeaMay '26: 13 NayMay '26Jun '26: 20 YeaJun '26: 17 NayJun '26Jul '26: 7 YeaJul '26: 9 NayJul '26Jun '25: 40 totalJul '25: 33 totalSep '25: 64 totalNov '25: 23 totalDec '25: 57 totalJan '26: 47 totalFeb '26: 30 totalMar '26: 30 totalApr '26: 47 totalMay '26: 36 totalJun '26: 42 totalJul '26: 16 total
Measures voted on:463 passed145 failed1 procedural/other

Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.

Vote attendance

95.7%
attendance
583 of 609 roll calls26 missed
Monthly participation rate
0255075100100%Jun 25Sep 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Jul 26

Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

239bills sponsored
29 pending210 awaiting status
05101520Bills1994: 6 awaiting status619941995: 6 awaiting status619951996: 1 awaiting status119961997: 2 awaiting status219971998: 5 awaiting status519981999: 8 awaiting status819992000: 3 awaiting status320002001: 4 awaiting status420012002: 1 awaiting status120022003: 5 awaiting status520032004: 3 awaiting status320042005: 10 awaiting status1020052006: 6 awaiting status620062007: 14 awaiting status1420072008: 13 awaiting status1320082009: 15 awaiting status1520092010: 8 awaiting status820102011: 13 awaiting status1320112012: 5 awaiting status520122013: 10 awaiting status1020132014: 2 awaiting status220142015: 14 awaiting status1420152016: 3 awaiting status320162017: 10 awaiting status1020172018: 9 awaiting status920182019: 16 awaiting status1620192020: 4 awaiting status420202021: 10 awaiting status1020212022: 4 awaiting status420222023: 7 pending720232024: 7 pending720242025: 11 pending1120252026: 4 pending42026

Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.

Independence

2%
Votes against own party
11 of 583 recent votes

How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.

Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bill success rate

0%
0 of 29 sponsored bills became law
29 pending

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$1.0M
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$500K$1M$1.5M$2M2026: raised $1.0M2026: spent $1.0M20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $14K (1%)Large individual (itemized): $145K (14%)14%PAC / committee: $868K (85%)85%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$14K1%
  • Large individual (itemized)$145K14%
  • PAC / committee$868K85%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Source: Congress.gov.

Verified record

239 sponsored bills · finance on file

Facts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.

Campaign financeas of Mar 31, 2026

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $608,726, spent $819,626, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Sponsored legislation

Showing the 12 most recent of 239 sponsored measures.

Voting record

Total votes
609
Yea
250
Nay
333
Present
0
Not voting
26

Full voting record

609 votes
120 of 609
Page 1 / 31

Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Stated positions

No stated positions are on record for this official yet. A stated position is what the official says they believe on an issue — a sourced claim, separate from any assessment of what they did. Know one? Add it with a link to where it was said.

Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

Disclosure

A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.

No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.

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