Former representative · Texas's 18th district

Sylvester Turner

Sylvester Turner served in Congress from 2025 to 2025, last as a Democratic representative for Texas's 18th district. In the 119th Congress, 56 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 0, and cast 32 of 33 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Democrat
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 3, 2025
Last term ended
Mar 4, 2025
Photo: Government Publishing Office (public domain)

Record by Congress

Counts with their denominators for each Congress and chamber served. Ranks are among members who served most of that Congress (100 or more roll calls): rank 1 did it most often. A description, not a grade.

CongressRoll callsMissedVotes with partySponsoredCosponsored across the aisle
119th CongressHouse of Representatives560.0%0 of 5697%32 of 3320 became law10%5 of 49

Ideology (DW-NOMINATE)

Voteview's DW-NOMINATE first dimension estimates where members sit from all their roll calls: liberal (−1) to conservative (+1). It describes voting patterns, not views. Shown for the 119th Congress (House), with each party's median and the chamber's range.

Liberal −1−0.75+1 Conservative

Source: Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/

Votes against their party

The latest party-unity votes on bills and amendments where the member voted yea or nay against most of their caucus.

  1. Feb 7, 2025· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 226–188· Against party

Recent votes

The latest roll calls on bills and amendments, with the member's recorded position.

  1. Mar 3, 2025· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 402–16
  2. Mar 3, 2025· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 417–0
  3. Feb 27, 2025· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 221–198
  4. Feb 26, 2025· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 220–206
  5. Feb 26, 2025· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 424–0
  6. Feb 25, 2025· House· Passage· On Agreeing to the Resolution, as Amended· Passed 217–215
  7. Feb 25, 2025· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 415–8
  8. Feb 25, 2025· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 427–3
  9. Feb 24, 2025· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 384–25
  10. Feb 24, 2025· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 396–15
  11. Feb 24, 2025· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 405–0
  12. Feb 13, 2025· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 264–155

Sponsored bills

Bills and resolutions the member introduced as sponsor in the loaded Congresses. Volume is not quality: most measures never leave committee.

2 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced2100%

Policy areas

  1. Government Operations and Politics1
  2. Health1

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 1034 DHS Cybersecurity On-the-Job Training Program Act
    Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· Nov 20, 2025
  2. H.R. 1510 Due Process Continuity of Care Act
    Introduced· Health· Sep 8, 2025

Committees

Seats as published by the congress-legislators project. Past seats are those no longer listed since Analisa began recording them.

No committee seats are listed.

Federal contracts in the district

Contract obligations attributed to Texas's 18th district by each action's county and its award's ZIP code (land shares through census tracts); an estimate where ZIP codes cross district lines. Shown next to the member's record: neither explains the other.

Obligations · FY2026
$653.2M
Per resident
$822
Rank in Texas
23 of 38
Contract actions
34K
New awards: 32.2K

By fiscal year

  1. 981.9MFY2017
  2. 1.2BFY2018
  3. 928.1MFY2019
  4. 808.7MFY2020
  5. 1.4BFY2021
  6. 1.9BFY2022
  7. 799.1MFY2023
  8. 899.8MFY2024
  9. 1.4BFY2025
  10. 653.2MFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of Defense
  2. Department of Homeland Security
  3. Department of Agriculture
  4. Department of Homeland Security
  5. Department of Defense
  6. General Services Administration
  7. Department of Justice

Top recipients

  1. 22 awards
  2. 315 awards
  3. CORECIVIC, INC.$36.8M5.6%
    3 awards
  4. 1 award
  5. 16 awards
  6. 278 awards
  7. 711 awards
  8. 13 awards
  9. 319 awards
  10. 1 award
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Campaign money

What the member's campaigns reported receiving, per FEC two-year cycle, and the federal contracts of the organizations that sponsor the giving PACs (each sponsor matched to a contract recipient by AI, with its probability). Comparisons of public records: neither explains the other.

2026 cycle

Raised
$29.2K
through Oct 31, 2025
Cash on hand
$410
From committees
$8,000
4 committees
From contractor PACs
$2,500
1 PACs · 31% of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2026

PAC sponsorGivenMatched contract recipientIts contracts, FY2026
american hospital associationamerican hospital association pac$2,500AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATIONAI match · 99% · the same organization$1.2M

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2026$29.2K$8,000$2,5001 PACs · 31% of committee money
2024$652.6K$102K$16.5K6 PACs · 16% of committee money

Raised is the FEC's cumulative summary of the candidacy; committee money counts each contribution reported, so the two cover slightly different dates.

Terms

Every term in the House or Senate, as published by the congress-legislators project.

  1. House · Texas's 18th districtJan 3, 2025 – Mar 4, 2025

Identifiers

The same member in other public records.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • ZIP code (ZCTA) to congressional district crosswalk (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 relationship files (ZCTAs, tracts and congressional districts); shares computed by Analisa · release 2020 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission)FEC bulk data: committee master, candidate master (candidates' names, no addresses), linkages, PAC summaries, all-candidates summaries and contributions from committees (no individual contributors) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Activity counts describe volume and attendance; they are not a measure of quality.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.