Democrat · House · CA
Jim Costa
Placed from the roll-call score. Bioguide C001059.
Jim Costa is the Democrat representative for the House from CA, district 21 in the 119th Congress. The chart uses the October 2026 snapshot. The position is Voteview’s DW-NOMINATE score of the roll calls. Color is the party label. The place is the votes.
The first dimension is -0.199, drawn as economics -20. That is left of center on economics. The second dimension is 0.447, drawn as authority +45. The other axis sits toward authority. Voteview’s second dimension is not a pure social axis. The chart uses the public file anyway, rather than inventing a different number.
Inside the House, this first-dimension score ranks 207 of 433 from the left. The first-dimension score is right of the Democrat median in this chamber (-0.39). The nearest other House scores are Angie Craig (Democrat, -0.273), Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (Democrat, -0.289), Josh Harder (Democrat, -0.295). Those names are neighbors on the scale, not a slate.
The member’s official site (https://costa.house.gov), under “Agriculture,” says: “Farmers, agribusiness leaders, and elected officials gathered at the Fresno County Farm Bureau on Tuesday to underscore how much of California's farm…” Those are the member’s words. They are not the same thing as the roll-call score.
One left-to-right score cannot say how Jim Costa would vote on a single bill. The identity and the vote file can be checked at congress.gov through bioguide C001059.