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Tom Cotton

U.S. Senator · AR

Voted Yea 3,318 · Nay 2,135 across 5,553 recorded votes.

Where their votes land

Democratic side100 · Voted with Republicans almost every timeRepublican side
  • Average Senate Democrat: 2
  • Average Senate Republican: 97

Overall, averaged across 10 values of hand-picked votes that split the parties.

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Where their votes land

Each scale runs between the two parties. The left end is the side most Democrats took on a set of hand-picked roll-call votes, the right end the side most Republicans took, and Tom Cotton's marker sits at the share of those votes they cast on the Republican side. Votes that most of both parties agreed on are left out, because they cannot show which side anyone was on.

Overall

average of 10 values
Democratic side100 · Voted with Republicans almost every timeRepublican side
  • Average Senate Democrat: 2
  • Average Senate Republican: 97

0 is the Democratic side of every party-split vote and 100 the Republican side of every one. This is the average of the 10 value positions below that rest on 4 or more votes, each counted once however many votes stand behind it; 2 values below have fewer than 4 votes and are drawn but not counted in it.

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  • Health care and prescription costs

    11 of 11 votes
    Broader public coverage and lower drug prices11 of 11 with RepublicansLess federal spending and a smaller government role

  • Reproductive health care

    11 of 11 votes
    Protecting access to abortion, contraception and IVF11 of 11 with RepublicansRestricting abortion and the funding behind it

  • Immigration

    8 of 8 votes
    More legal protection and processing capacity8 of 8 with RepublicansStricter enforcement and less federal benefit access

  • Voting and elections

    8 of 8 votes
    Wider access to the ballot8 of 8 with RepublicansTighter eligibility and identity checks

  • Climate and clean energy

    7 of 7 votes
    Cutting greenhouse-gas emissions faster7 of 7 with RepublicansCheaper energy now and fewer federal mandates

  • Consumer financial protection

    7 of 7 votes
    Stronger federal protection for borrowers7 of 7 with RepublicansLighter regulation of banks and lenders

  • Clean air, water and public land

    6 of 6 votes
    Stronger limits on pollution and development6 of 6 with RepublicansFewer federal restrictions on land and industry

  • Workers, wages and care

    6 of 6 votes
    Stronger bargaining rights and higher wage floors6 of 6 with RepublicansMore employer flexibility and lower labour costs

  • Civil rights and discrimination

    4 of 4 votes
    Broader federal anti-discrimination protection4 of 4 with RepublicansNarrower federal rules, more left to states

  • Taxes and who pays them

    4 of 4 votes
    Higher taxes at the top and stronger collection4 of 4 with RepublicansLower rates and a smaller tax administration

  • War powers

    3 of 3 votes
    Requiring Congress to authorise military force3 of 3 with RepublicansLeaving the deployment decision with the President

    Only 3 votes — fewer than 4, so this is drawn with a hollow marker and not counted in the overall position.

  • Guns

    2 of 2 votes
    Tighter limits on firearms2 of 2 with RepublicansFewer restrictions on lawful gun owners

    Only 2 votes — fewer than 4, so this is drawn with a hollow marker and not counted in the overall position.

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Positions count only the votes this person cast, so two people can be placed on different numbers of votes — the count beside each value says how many. How the votes were chosen, and how each party's side is counted.

Where the money came from

Receipts into Tom Cotton’s own campaign committee over the 2025–2026 election cycle, through June 30, 2026.

  • Small individual donors$552,197
  • Large individual donors$2,621,968
  • PACs$1,129,500
  • Party committees$62,000
  • Transfers in$1,373,299
  • Other and unclassified$494,153
  • Total receipts$6,233,117
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What these categories mean
Small individual donors
People whose giving stayed under $200 in total. The FEC does not require them to be named, so who they are is genuinely unknown — not merely unlisted.
Large individual donors
People whose giving passed $200, which is the point at which the campaign must report their name, employer and occupation.
PACs
Political action committees — corporate, trade, union and ideological. Money from an organisation rather than from a person.
Party committees
The member's own national, state or congressional-campaign party committees.
Transfers in
Money moved in from another committee the candidate is authorised by, typically a joint fundraising committee.
Other and unclassified
The remainder once every category above is accounted for: federal funds, offsets, interest, and anything this site could not classify. It is a residual, not a kind of donor.

This is money the campaign itself received. It is not everything spent to win the seat. It excludes leadership PACs, and it excludes independent expenditures and other outside spending — money spent to elect or defeat a candidate by groups they may not lawfully coordinate with, which in a contested race can exceed everything shown above. It is not personal income or net worth, which are a separate filing altogether. Figures are as filed with the Federal Election Commission and are only as current as the last report, covering through June 30, 2026; a cycle still running is a partial count. Check this filing on fec.gov.

Personal finances

Separately from the campaign money above, Tom Cotton files a report about their own money: what they own, what they owe, what they earn outside Congress, and every stock trade they make. The law requires it, and every figure in it is a range rather than an amount — which is why the columns below are ranges too.

What they report owning, and owing
  • Reported assets$368k to $1.0M22 lines, 6 with no figure
  • Reported debts$1.1M to $5.1M2 lines

Every column is read from $0. The solid height is the total of the low ends of the bands the filer ticked; the pale cap runs on to the total of the high ends, and is the range the form allows — not a margin of error and not a guess. Assets less debts comes to -$4.7M to -$30k — a range, and not a net worth: the form does not ask about a personal residence that earns nothing, about congressional salary, or about the exact value of anything.

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What the holdings are
  • Bonds, cash and other securities8 holdings$255k to $675k
  • Funds and managed accounts7 holdings, 1 with no figure$97k to $280k
  • Private businesses and partnerships2 holdings$16k to $65k
  • Retirement, pensions and insurance5 holdings, 5 with no figure—
  • Every group$368k to $1.0M

A slice needs one number and a filer ticks a range, so each arc is its group’s floor — the total of the low ends they ticked — and the figure in the hole is the total of those floors. The band printed beside each group is the real answer, and it is wider than the arc. 6 holdings carry no figure at all and are in no arc.

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From Tom Cotton’s own financial disclosure, filed under the Ethics in Government Act. Every figure is the band the filer ticked.

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Government experience

ChamberState / DistrictPartyYears
SenateARRepublican2021–2027
SenateARRepublican2015–2021
HouseAR-4Republican2013–2015

A district link opens that seat as the plan in force draws it. Seat numbers outlive the lines beneath them, so for an older term that is not the ground they held.

Their district

The ground Tom Cotton represented, and what was measured on it while they held it. A seat listed twice is a seat whose boundaries were redrawn: the entries describe different areas, not the same area twice.

AR-4 113th Congress · 2013–2015

Every indicator and period for AR-4

Figures are the most recent published for each indicator in a period that ended while they held the seat — a figure published after they left describes their successor’s district. Allocated figures are built from the counties overlapping the district and carry the share of its residents the reporting sources covered. These are conditions in the district, not a record of the member. Nothing here is evidence that they caused any of it, or that a different representative would have produced different numbers.

Voting record

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