Democrat · House · MO
Emanuel Cleaver
Placed from the roll-call score. Bioguide C001061.
Emanuel Cleaver is the Democrat representative for the House from MO, district 5 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 -0.454, drawn as economics -45. That is left of center on economics. The second dimension is 0.007, drawn as authority +1. The other axis sits near the middle. 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 59 of 433 from the left. The first-dimension score is left of the Democrat median in this chamber (-0.39). The nearest other House scores are Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (Democrat, -0.450), Alma S. Adams (Democrat, -0.464), André Carson (Democrat, -0.434). Those names are neighbors on the scale, not a slate.
The member’s official site (https://cleaver.house.gov), under “Veterans,” says: “Memorializing WWI has been a passion of mine since before the days I was mayor of Kansas City. As you may know,…” 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 Emanuel Cleaver would vote on a single bill. The identity and the vote file can be checked at congress.gov through bioguide C001061.