Democrat · House · MD
Steny H. Hoyer
Placed from the roll-call score. Bioguide H000874.
Steny H. Hoyer is the Democrat representative for the House from MD, 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 -0.381, drawn as economics -38. That is left of center on economics. The second dimension is 0.125, drawn as authority +13. 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 115 of 433 from the left. The first-dimension score is close to the Democrat median in this chamber (-0.39). The nearest other House scores are Brendan F. Boyle (Democrat, -0.379), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Democrat, -0.412), Marcy Kaptur (Democrat, -0.340). Those names are neighbors on the scale, not a slate.
A short public-record note says: Maryland Democrat. Longtime leadership moderate-liberal. The score is the placement. The sentence only names what the record is already known for.
One left-to-right score cannot say how Steny H. Hoyer would vote on a single bill. The identity and the vote file can be checked at congress.gov through bioguide H000874.