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Trent Kelly

RepublicanTrent Kelly

U.S. Representative · Mississippi

Mississippi's 1st district

RepublicanFederal

U.S. Representative from Mississippi

0 tracked promises

Mississippi · Mississippi's 1st district

Mississippi's 1st district

Their congressional district

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How they won their seat

Trent Kelly won the 2024 U.S. House election in Mississippi (District 1) with 69.8% of the vote (223,589 votes).

69.8%
Win share
223,589
Votes for winner
320,286
Total cast
  • Trent Kelly · Republican69.8%
  • Dianne Dodson Black · Democrat30.2%

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

Trent Kelly's record shows legislative activity related to agriculture, military, and intelligence-related issues, as evidenced by his sponsorship of multiple bills such as the Community College Agriculture Advancement Act and the SHIPS for America Act. His committee memberships further reflect this concentration, particularly in agriculture and armed services. Focus areas (from the record): Agriculture · Military · Intelligence · Trade · Conservation Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There is a lack of available comparison data regarding declared positions or tracked promises against his legislative activities. What this can't tell you: Effectiveness of the sponsored bills is not assessed in the available data; Public statements or positions are not part of the current analysis; Informal influence is not part of the current analysis. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Trent Kelly 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 2026. 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 Trent Kelly 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
248
Voted yea
183
Voted nay
65

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

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
012243648VotesJan '26: 34 YeaJan '26: 13 NayJan '26Feb '26: 22 YeaFeb '26: 8 NayFeb '26Mar '26: 25 YeaMar '26: 5 NayMar '26Apr '26: 35 YeaApr '26: 12 NayApr '26May '26: 28 YeaMay '26: 8 NayMay '26Jun '26: 29 YeaJun '26: 13 NayJun '26Jul '26: 10 YeaJul '26: 6 NayJul '26Jan '26: 47 totalFeb '26: 30 totalMar '26: 30 totalApr '26: 47 totalMay '26: 36 totalJun '26: 42 totalJul '26: 16 total
Measures voted on:182 passed66 failed

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

Vote attendance

100%
attendance
248 of 248 roll calls0 missed
Monthly participation rate
0255075100100%Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26

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

Independence

0%
Votes against own party
0 of 248 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.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$888K
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$250K$500K$750K$1M2026: raised $888K2026: spent $837K20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $43K (5%)Large individual (itemized): $356K (40%)40%PAC / committee: $484K (55%)55%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$43K5%
  • Large individual (itemized)$356K40%
  • PAC / committee$484K55%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Voting record

Total votes
609
Yea
473
Nay
131
Present
0
Not voting
5

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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