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Former member of Congress · last served 118th Congress

Official portrait of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema

Kyrsten Sinema

INDEPENDENT U.S. Senator · ArizonaSenate 2019–2025 · House 2013–2019 (AZ-9)

Kyrsten Sinema was an Independent U.S. senator from Arizona, first elected to Congress in 2013, who sponsored 4 bills that became law (113th–118th Congress).

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141Bills & resolutions sponsored113th–118th Congress (excludes amendments)
10Passed a chamberof 129 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)
4Became law4 substantive + 0 ceremonial · 113th–118th Congress
—Broke with partyNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)
—Missed votesNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)
$59.8MPork: own shareFY2024 earmarks, 80 items; shared items split

How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.

Recent votes

No recorded roll-call votes in PORKER’s records. Roll-call records start in 2011.

5 most recent bills

Top bills sponsored

Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.

Elections Sen. Sinema has won

Sen. Sinema has won 3 U.S. House elections (2012–2016) and 1 U.S. Senate election (2018). Of the contested races, margins ran from 2.3 to 21.9 points.

010204060Margin of victory, points (axis starts at 0)2012, AZ-9: won by 4.1 points2012AZ-92014, AZ-9: won by 12.8 points20142016, AZ-9: won by 21.9 points20162018, AZ Senate: won by 2.3 points2018AZ Senate
Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed
Elections won4 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed
Closest win: 2.3 points2018, AZ Senate
Won an open seat or took one from the other party2 of 4 elections (open seat or changed party)
Seat history, Arizona’s 9th districtWinners, most recent three: Kyrsten Sinema (D) 2012–2016 → Greg Stanton (D) 2018–2020 → Paul A. Gosar (R) 2022–2024. Elections shown, not terms; special elections not included.
Seat history, Arizona Senate (class 1)Winners in regular elections, most recent three: Jeff Flake (R) 2012 → Kyrsten Sinema (D) 2018 → Ruben Gallego (D) 2024.

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Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.

How has Arizona done while Sen. Sinema served?

2019 to 2024 in Arizona: typical household income was up 7% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 1.8 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 0.5 points.

Typical household income · after inflationU.S. $81.6KArizona $81.5K
Arizona: $76.4K in 2019 → $81.5K in 2024
Arizona up 7%U.S. up 1%
Share of people below the poverty lineU.S. 12.1%Arizona 11.7%
Arizona: 13.5% in 2019 → 11.7% in 2024
Arizona down 1.8 pointsU.S. down 0.2 points
Share of workers looking for a jobU.S. 4.6%Arizona 4.6%
Arizona: 5.1% in 2019 → 4.6% in 2024
Arizona down 0.5 pointsU.S. up 0.1 points

Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Oxblood = state, grey = U.S.

While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in Arizona during Sinema’s time representing it (2019 to 2025). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.

Arizona’s borders do not change, so every year is comparable. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.

See the full 20-year record →Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates (tables B19013, B17001, B23001) and BLS CPI-U-RS for inflation, retrieved October 18, 2026. “About the same” means the change is inside the 90% margins of error. Who held the seat: Congress.gov member service records, year level.

Official records on bills this member sponsored

118th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 37 bills sponsored.

RecordBillsSource
Bills sponsored37Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a CBO cost estimate listed9See the 9 →
With a committee report listed9See the 9 →
Evidence
How counted
Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 118th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
Fields
cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
PORKER copy refreshed
October 26, 2026 (nightly)

Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.

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Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.