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Ken Calvert

RepublicanKen Calvert

U.S. Representative · California

California's 41st district

RepublicanFederal

U.S. Representative from California

0 tracked promises

California · California's 41st district

California's 41st district

Their congressional district

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How they won their seat

Ken Calvert won the 2024 U.S. House election in California (District 41) with 51.7% of the vote (183,216 votes).

51.7%
Win share
183,216
Votes for winner
354,445
Total cast
  • Ken Calvert · Republican51.7%
  • Will Rollins · Democrat48.3%

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

Ken Calvert's record includes bills related to defense appropriations, energy policies, and environmental issues. He has sponsored multiple bills related to the Department of Defense, such as HR 9495 and HR 8774, and has also addressed energy security through resolutions like HRES 1227. Additionally, he has addressed water rights and environmental concerns with bills like HR 5935 and HR 2026. Focus areas (from the record): Defense · Energy Policy · Environmental Protection · Water Rights · Homelessness Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess alignment with legislative activity. What this can't tell you: The effectiveness of the sponsored bills is not assessed in the available record; The record does not provide insights into motives or intentions; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Ken Calvert 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 Ken Calvert 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
459
Voted nay
148
Bills sponsored
255
Committees
3

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

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
016324864VotesJun '25: 32 YeaJun '25: 8 NayJun '25Jul '25: 25 YeaJul '25: 8 NayJul '25Sep '25: 43 YeaSep '25: 20 NaySep '25Nov '25: 21 YeaNov '25: 2 NayNov '25Dec '25: 38 YeaDec '25: 19 NayDec '25Jan '26: 30 YeaJan '26: 17 NayJan '26Feb '26: 22 YeaFeb '26: 8 NayFeb '26Mar '26: 25 YeaMar '26: 5 NayMar '26Apr '26: 33 YeaApr '26: 13 NayApr '26May '26: 27 YeaMay '26: 9 NayMay '26Jun '26: 29 YeaJun '26: 13 NayJun '26Jul '26: 8 YeaJul '26: 8 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

99.7%
attendance
607 of 609 roll calls2 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

255bills sponsored
1 passed a chamber1 failed / vetoed44 pending209 awaiting status
05101520Bills1993: 2 awaiting status219931994: 2 awaiting status219941995: 4 awaiting status419951996: 4 awaiting status419961997: 8 awaiting status819971998: 1 awaiting status119981999: 17 awaiting status1719992000: 7 awaiting status720002001: 15 awaiting status1520012002: 2 awaiting status220022003: 11 awaiting status1120032004: 5 awaiting status520042005: 10 awaiting status1020052006: 2 awaiting status220062007: 8 awaiting status820072008: 5 awaiting status520082009: 11 awaiting status1120092010: 2 awaiting status220102011: 6 awaiting status620112012: 2 awaiting status220122013: 11 awaiting status1120132014: 3 awaiting status320142015: 11 awaiting status1120152016: 6 awaiting status620162017: 13 awaiting status1320172018: 3 awaiting status320182019: 15 awaiting status1520192020: 1 awaiting status120202021: 20 awaiting status2020212022: 2 awaiting status220222023: 14 pending1420232024: 1 failed / vetoed, 6 pending2024: 1 failed / vetoed, 6 pending720242025: 19 pending1920252026: 1 passed a chamber, 5 pending2026: 1 passed a chamber, 5 pending62026

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

3%
Votes against own party
17 of 607 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 46 sponsored bills became law
1 passed a chamber1 failed / vetoed44 pending

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

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$1.5M
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$500K$1M$1.5M$2M2026: raised $1.5M2026: spent $1.3M20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $5K (0%)Large individual (itemized): $698K (48%)48%PAC / committee: $743K (51%)51%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$5K0%
  • Large individual (itemized)$698K48%
  • PAC / committee$743K51%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Voting record

Total votes
609
Yea
459
Nay
148
Present
0
Not voting
2

Full voting record

609 votes
120 of 609
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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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