Democrat · House · MA
James P. McGovern
Placed from the roll-call score. Bioguide M000312.
James P. McGovern is the Democrat representative for the House from MA, district 2 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 -0.538, drawn as economics -54. That is left of center on economics. The second dimension is -0.354, drawn as authority -35. The other axis sits toward liberty. 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 16 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 Nydia M. Velázquez (Democrat, -0.546), Mark DeSaulnier (Democrat, -0.507), Christian D. Menefee (Democrat, -0.567). Those names are neighbors on the scale, not a slate.
The member’s official site (https://mcgovern.house.gov), under “Agriculture,” says: “And to promote rural development, I have worked to increase the USDA’s Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) to allow more farmers…” 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 James P. McGovern would vote on a single bill. The identity and the vote file can be checked at congress.gov through bioguide M000312.