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Sara Jacobs

DemocratSara Jacobs

U.S. Representative · California

California's 51st district

DemocratFederal

U.S. Representative from California

0 tracked promises

California · California's 51st district

California's 51st district

Their congressional district

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How they won their seat

Sara Jacobs won the 2024 U.S. House election in California (District 51) with 60.7% of the vote (198,835 votes).

60.7%
Win share
198,835
Votes for winner
327,584
Total cast
  • Sara Jacobs · Democrat60.7%
  • Bill Wells · Republican39.3%

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

Sara Jacobs' record includes sponsorship of bills such as the 'Restore Military Families’ Voices Act' and membership in Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees. Additionally, her legislative record includes social issues, such as the 'My Body, My Data Act of 2025' and support for International Transgender Day of Visibility. Focus areas (from the record): Military Affairs · Foreign Policy · Social Issues · Health Care · Child Care Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Jacobs' legislative activities. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; There is no information on Jacobs' unlogged work or informal activities; The absence of declared positions limits understanding of her priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Sara Jacobs 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 2021–2023 term. 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 Sara Jacobs 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.

Bills sponsored
20

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

Bills sponsored over time

20bills sponsored
20 awaiting status
05101520Bills2021: 5 awaiting status520212022: 15 awaiting status152022

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.

Bill success rate

0%
0 of 0 sponsored bills became law

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

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$1.6M
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$500K$1M$1.5M$2M2026: raised $1.6M2026: spent $1.4M20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $140K (26%)26%Large individual (itemized): $231K (42%)42%PAC / committee: $174K (32%)32%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$140K26%
  • Large individual (itemized)$231K42%
  • PAC / committee$174K32%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Verified record

76 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.

Sponsored legislation

Showing the 12 most recent of 76 sponsored measures.

Voting record

Total votes
609
Yea
258
Nay
350
Present
1
Not voting
0

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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