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Wesley Bell

DemocratWesley Bell

U.S. Representative · Missouri

Missouri's 1st district

DemocratFederal

U.S. Representative from Missouri

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Missouri · Missouri's 1st district

Missouri's 1st district

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How they won their seat

Wesley Bell won the 2024 U.S. House election in Missouri (District 1) with 75.9% of the vote (233,312 votes).

75.9%
Win share
233,312
Votes for winner
307,265
Total cast
  • Wesley Bell · Democrat75.9%
  • Andrew Jones · Republican18.4%
  • Rochelle A. Riggins · Libertarian3.3%
  • Don Fitz · Green1.7%
  • 1 Other Candidate0.7%

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

Wesley Bell's record includes legislation related to public safety, emergency management, and education, as evidenced by sponsored bills such as the Tornado Preparedness Act (HR 8846), FEMA Accountability Act (HR 7461), and Reinvest in Public Schools Act of 2026 (HR 7570). Additionally, his committee memberships on the House Committee on Armed Services and Oversight and Government Reform reflect involvement in national security and government oversight issues. Focus areas (from the record): Public Safety · Emergency Management · Education · Government Oversight · Mental Health Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The absence of declared positions or tracked promises limits the ability to assess alignment with Bell's legislative activity. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; There is no information on Bell's specific motivations or strategic goals; The absence of declared positions limits understanding of his overall policy priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Wesley Bell 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 Wesley Bell 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. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.

Tracked positions
0

Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
013263952VotesJan '26: 25 YeaJan '26: 22 NayJan '26Feb '26: 8 YeaFeb '26: 14 NayFeb '26Mar '26: 11 YeaMar '26: 18 NayMar '26Apr '26: 22 YeaApr '26: 25 NayApr '26May '26: 20 YeaMay '26: 16 NayMay '26Jun '26: 23 YeaJun '26: 18 NayJun '26Jul '26: 15 YeaJul '26: 35 NayJul '26Aug '26: 2 YeaAug '26: 0 NayAug '26Sep '26: 3 YeaSep '26: 6 NaySep '26Jan '26: 47 totalFeb '26: 30 totalMar '26: 30 totalApr '26: 47 totalMay '26: 36 totalJun '26: 42 totalJul '26: 50 totalAug '26: 2 totalSep '26: 10 total
Measures voted on:211 passed83 failed

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

Vote attendance

96.3%
attendance
283 of 294 roll calls11 missed
Monthly participation rate
025507510090%Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Sep 26

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

Bills sponsored over time

14bills sponsored
14 pending
05101520Bills2026: 14 pending142026

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

1%
Votes against own party
4 of 283 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 14 sponsored bills became law
14 pending

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

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$8.9M
Raised, 20242026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$2.5M$5M$7.5M$10M2024: raised $5.4M2024: spent $5.0M20242026: raised $3.6M2026: spent $2.9M20262024: cash on hand $02026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $60K (2%)Large individual (itemized): $2.8M (81%)81%PAC / committee: $591K (17%)17%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$60K2%
  • Large individual (itemized)$2.8M81%
  • PAC / committee$591K17%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Verified record

30 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 Mar 31, 2026

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $1,903,759, spent $1,100,409, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Voting record

Total votes
655
Yea
271
Nay
364
Present
1
Not voting
19

Full voting record

655 votes
  • HR4795Not voting
  • S32Yea
  • S307Yea
120 of 655
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Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Positions on record

No 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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