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John R. Carter

RepublicanJohn R. Carter

U.S. Representative · Texas

Texas's 31st district

RepublicanFederal

U.S. Representative from Texas

0 tracked promises

Texas · Texas's 31st district

Texas's 31st district

Their congressional district

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How they won their seat

John R. Carter won the 2024 U.S. House election in Texas (District 31) with 64.4% of the vote (229,087 votes).

64.4%
Win share
229,087
Votes for winner
355,557
Total cast
  • John R. Carter · Republican64.4%
  • Stuart Whitlow · Democrat35.6%

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

John R. Carter's record shows a pattern of sponsored bills related to military and veterans' affairs, as evidenced by multiple sponsored bills related to military construction and veterans' services, such as HR 8469 and HR 8580. Additionally, there is a pattern of sponsored bills related to school security, with several bills like HR 5184 and HR 2483 addressing this issue. His committee assignments further emphasize his involvement in appropriations related to defense and veterans' affairs. Focus areas (from the record): Military Affairs · Veterans Services · School Security · Appropriations · Public Safety Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There is a lack of declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against his legislative activities. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal any declared positions or promises that could provide context for his legislative focus; There is no information on the effectiveness of the sponsored bills or their impact; The record does not indicate any potential unlogged work or initiatives outside of the sponsored bills. Confidence: high (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. John R. Carter 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 John R. Carter 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
287
Voted nay
65
Bills sponsored
2
Committees
4

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

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
016324864VotesJan '25: 20 YeaJan '25: 4 NayJan '25Feb '25: 23 YeaFeb '25: 3 NayFeb '25Mar '25: 27 YeaMar '25: 5 NayMar '25Apr '25: 25 YeaApr '25: 2 NayApr '25May '25: 28 YeaMay '25: 3 NayMay '25Jun '25: 31 YeaJun '25: 7 NayJun '25Jul '25: 22 YeaJul '25: 8 NayJul '25Sep '25: 51 YeaSep '25: 13 NaySep '25Nov '25: 21 YeaNov '25: 2 NayNov '25Dec '25: 39 YeaDec '25: 18 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

97.5%
attendance
352 of 361 roll calls9 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

2bills sponsored
2 pending
01234Bills2025: 2 pending22025

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

0.85%
Votes against own party
3 of 352 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 2 sponsored bills became law
2 pending

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

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$1.1M
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$500K$1M$1.5M$2M2026: raised $1.1M2026: spent $1.3M20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $15K (1%)Large individual (itemized): $429K (41%)41%PAC / committee: $614K (58%)58%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$15K1%
  • Large individual (itemized)$429K41%
  • PAC / committee$614K58%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Verified record

125 sponsored bills

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.

Voting record

Total votes
609
Yea
460
Nay
137
Present
0
Not voting
12

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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