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Emilia Strong Sykes

DemocratEmilia Strong Sykes

U.S. Representative · Ohio

Ohio's 13th district

DemocratFederal

U.S. Representative from Ohio

0 tracked promises

Ohio · Ohio's 13th district

Ohio's 13th district

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How they won their seat

Emilia Strong Sykes won the 2024 U.S. House election in Ohio (District 13) with 51.1% of the vote (197,466 votes).

51.1%
Win share
197,466
Votes for winner
386,390
Total cast
  • Emilia Strong Sykes · Democrat51.1%
  • Kevin Coughlin · Republican48.9%

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

Emilia Strong Sykes has sponsored legislation related to safety, health, and accountability, as evidenced by bills like the Truck Stop Safety Act, the Fair Social Security for Domestic Violence Survivors Act, and the Consumer Protection and Corporate Accountability in Bankruptcy Act of 2026. Additionally, her committee memberships include science, technology, and infrastructure, particularly in areas related to transportation and environmental resources. Focus areas (from the record): Safety · Health · Accountability · Transportation · Infrastructure · Science and Technology Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Sykes' legislative activities. Therefore, it is not possible to assess alignment. 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 stated goals or intentions; The record does not indicate how constituents perceive her legislative efforts. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Emilia Strong Sykes 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.

Showing 2025. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.

Activity in office

What Emilia Strong Sykes 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
361
Voted yea
157
Voted nay
202
Bills sponsored
30
Committees
6

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

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
016324864VotesJan '25: 18 YeaJan '25: 8 NayJan '25Feb '25: 15 YeaFeb '25: 11 NayFeb '25Mar '25: 15 YeaMar '25: 17 NayMar '25Apr '25: 11 YeaApr '25: 16 NayApr '25May '25: 14 YeaMay '25: 19 NayMay '25Jun '25: 21 YeaJun '25: 18 NayJun '25Jul '25: 12 YeaJul '25: 21 NayJul '25Sep '25: 15 YeaSep '25: 49 NaySep '25Nov '25: 9 YeaNov '25: 14 NayNov '25Dec '25: 27 YeaDec '25: 29 NayDec '25Jan '25: 26 totalFeb '25: 26 totalMar '25: 32 totalApr '25: 27 totalMay '25: 33 totalJun '25: 40 totalJul '25: 33 totalSep '25: 64 totalNov '25: 23 totalDec '25: 57 total
Measures voted on:281 passed79 failed1 procedural/other

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

Vote attendance

99.7%
attendance
360 of 361 roll calls1 missed
Monthly participation rate
0255075100100%Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Nov 25Dec 25

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

Bills sponsored over time

30bills sponsored
30 pending
013253850Bills2025: 30 pending302025

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

5%
Votes against own party
19 of 359 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 30 sponsored bills became law
30 pending

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

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$10.5M
Raised, 20222026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$2.5M$5M$7.5M$10M2022: raised $2.5M2022: spent $2.5M20222024: raised $5.3M2024: spent $5.3M20242026: raised $2.6M2026: spent $1.1M20262022: cash on hand $02024: cash on hand $02026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $340K (14%)14%Large individual (itemized): $1.3M (52%)52%PAC / committee: $825K (34%)34%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$340K14%
  • Large individual (itemized)$1.3M52%
  • PAC / committee$825K34%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Verified record

62 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 Apr 15, 2026

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $2,596,657, spent $1,065,272, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Voting record

Total votes
609
Yea
271
Nay
319
Present
1
Not voting
18

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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