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Mark Takano

DemocratMark Takano

U.S. Representative · California

California's 39th district

DemocratFederal

U.S. Representative from California

1 tracked promise, 1 rated

California · California's 39th district

California's 39th district

Their congressional district

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100/100
Trust rating
Strongly keeps promises
100
0 · Broken50 · Mixed100 · Kept
A transparent rescale of the Integrity Score (+100) to 0–100, aggregated from 1 rated promise. Never an opaque single score.
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How they won their seat

Mark Takano won the 2024 U.S. House election in California (District 39) with 56.7% of the vote (130,191 votes).

56.7%
Win share
130,191
Votes for winner
229,660
Total cast
  • Mark Takano · Democrat56.7%
  • David Serpa · Republican43.3%

Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.

Inferred legislative agendas

Mark Takano's record includes sponsorship of multiple bills aimed at improving veterans' healthcare and addressing homelessness among veterans, such as the 'End Veteran Homelessness Act of 2025' and the 'VA Health Care Capacity Assessment Act'. He has also sponsored several resolutions supporting LGBTQI+ youth in schools. Focus areas (from the record): Veterans' Affairs · Education · LGBTQI+ Rights · Healthcare Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against his sponsored bills and voting record. What this can't tell you: The effectiveness of the sponsored bills and their impact on the intended issues is not assessed; There is no information on any unlogged work or community engagement outside of the official record. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Mark Takano has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.

Showing 2021. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.

Activity in office

What Mark Takano has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score.

Bills sponsored
28

Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

28bills sponsored
28 awaiting status
013253850Bills2021: 28 awaiting status282021

Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.

Bill success rate

0%
0 of 0 sponsored bills became law

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$1.1M
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$500K$1M$1.5M$2M2026: raised $1.1M2026: spent $1.1M20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $85K (8%)8%Large individual (itemized): $639K (60%)60%PAC / committee: $341K (32%)32%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$85K8%
  • Large individual (itemized)$639K60%
  • PAC / committee$341K32%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Integrity

Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown

+100 · based on 1 rated promise

  • Fully Kept 1

Teal segments are promises kept; amber and stone segments are promises worked against. The signed score weights each rated promise by significance and evidence confidence. Promise-keeping is shown separately from popularity, finance, disclosure, and stated positions. Methodology is open.

Integrity over time

In office since Jan 2019 · 1 rated promise

Each step is a real change in the sourced record — the score holds between assessments.

−100 worked against0+100 kept

Promise status over time

How the tracked promise record has evolved.

1 tracked
  • Kept1
  • Against0
  • No opportunity0
  • In progress0
011Jul 2026

Replayed from this official’s sourced assessment history — the bands step only when an assessment is recorded or changed. Based on the most recent roll-call votes on file and the tracked promise assessments; never interpolated.

Topic coverage

1 promise across 1 topic

What this record covers — the number of tracked promises per topic. This is coverage, not a verdict; the kept/against shading within each bar mirrors the Integrity breakdown above.

  • Veterans1 promise

Evidence & significance

Evidence quality

Strongest source cited per promise.

  • Primary (official record)1100%

Significance mix

How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).

10
20
30
40
51

Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.

Tracked promises

1 tracked promise

Fully Kepthigh confidence

Enact legislation to expand VA health care eligibility and disability benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits and other toxic substances, removing the burden of proof of causation — pursued as the Honoring our PACT Act, which Takano first introduced on June 17, 2021.

VeteransSpecific · measurablePromised Jun 2021
Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honoring_our_PACT_Act_of_2022https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Takanohttps://www.moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/8/signed-into-law-historic-bipartisan-legislation-providing-health-care-benefits-for-toxic-exposed-veteranshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3967https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2022-06-16/burn-pits-veterans-pact-act-6364767.html

Verified record

197 sponsored bills

Facts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.

Sponsored legislation

Showing the 12 most recent of 197 sponsored measures.

Voting record

Total votes
609
Yea
255
Nay
349
Present
0
Not voting
5

Full voting record

609 votes
120 of 609
Page 1 / 31

Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Stated positions

1 position on record

What this official says they believe — sourced claims, shown distinctly from tracked promises and from any assessment of what they did. A stated position is never scored and never affects the Integrity Score.

  • VeteransStated position

    Enact legislation to expand VA health care eligibility and disability benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits and other toxic substances, removing the burden of proof of causation — pursued as the Honoring our PACT Act, which Takano first introduced on June 17, 2021.

    Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honoring_our_PACT_Act_of_2022https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Takano
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Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

Disclosure

A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.

No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.

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