Democrat · House · CA
Maxine Waters
Placed from the roll-call score. Bioguide W000187.
Maxine Waters is the Democrat representative for the House from CA, district 43 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 -0.656, drawn as economics -66. That is left of center on economics. The second dimension is -0.093, drawn as authority -9. 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 2 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 Bonnie Watson Coleman (Democrat, -0.592), Linda T. Sánchez (Democrat, -0.507), Nanette Diaz Barragán (Democrat, -0.497). Those names are neighbors on the scale, not a slate.
The member’s official site (https://waters.house.gov), under “Rep. Waters' Legislation,” says: “One of the most important aspects of Congress is developing, making, and monitoring laws. New legislation is passed almost every week. Please…” 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 Maxine Waters would vote on a single bill. The identity and the vote file can be checked at congress.gov through bioguide W000187.