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Joaquin Castro

Joaquin Castro is a Democratic incumbent in Texas's 20th district. $515K raised, $499K spent, $154K cash through Jun 30, 2026. On the November ballot

$515Kraised
$499Kspent
$154Kcash on hand
Campaign finance$515K raised

Flags are rules applied to FEC totals, not judgements. Reported

Raised$515K
Spent$499K
Cash on hand$154K
Campaign finance
MeasureAmount
Raised (total receipts)$514,776
Spent (disbursements)$499,054
Cash on hand$154,380
Debts owed by campaign$0
Filing covers throughJun 30, 2026

Reported Self-reported to the FEC.

Record in Congressage 52 · 7 terms · votes right of 22% of the House
52age on Election Day
7House terms (since 2013)
Democratparty in Congress

Voting record

-10+1more liberalmore conservativeCastro
Voting record
MeasureValue
DW-NOMINATE score (first dimension)-0.40
Votes more conservative than22% of House members
Democratic median / Republican median-0.40 / +0.53
Roll-call votes counted556

Estimate DW-NOMINATE (Voteview, UCLA) scales members from their roll-call votes in the 119th Congress: negative is more liberal, positive more conservative. It describes voting patterns, not views on any one issue. See the member on Voteview.

Official House website · Official biography (Congress)

Reported Facts from the public congress-legislators dataset, current to 2026-10-15.

Financial disclosurefiled 2026-08-12

Annual report for 2025, filed 2026-08-12. We could not read this report automatically, so we show no figures from it. Open the official report (PDF)

Reports filed on paper or as scans have no text we can read.

Public attention4,800 views in 30 days
4,800Wikipedia views, last 30 days
#205 of 461among candidates in the race with an article

Reported Page views of Joaquin Castro on English Wikipedia, 2026-09-14 to 2026-10-13 (Wikimedia). Views show curiosity, not support: long-serving incumbents have older, better-known articles, and many challengers have none.

Where the money comes fromindividuals, PACs, party, self
Individual donors 73%PACs and other committees 27%Other (refunds, transfers, loans) 0%
Funding mix
Source of moneyAmountShare of receipts
Individual donors$373,77372.6%
PACs and other committees$141,00027.4%
Other (refunds, transfers, loans)$30.0%
This raceTX-20, rank #1 of 2

Joaquin Castro ranks #1 of 2 in reported fundraising in this race.

TX-20 · Texas · Democratic candidates · House forecasts

Elsewhere: Wikipedia · Wikidata · Official website · X (Twitter) · links matched through Wikidata and checked against the member or candidate record

Sources and methodFEC

All figures come from the Federal Election Commission and cover each filing period through Jun 30, 2026. FEC ID H2TX35011, committee C00497933. View the official record.

Ballot status: listed as a nominee in Wikipedia's article for this state (CC BY-SA), matched to this FEC record by name.