# Daniel Sparks

Daniel Sparks is a Republican member of the Mississippi Senate for district 5.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Mississippi Senate, district 5
- Serving since: 2020-01-07
- Current term: MS 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/32153f0b-aa40-4989-9787-e2608c55a87e

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/32153f0b-aa40-4989-9787-e2608c55a87e (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

8.3% of Sparks’s statements contain a personal attack, 3.7 times the State Senate Republican average of 2.3%.

## What Sparks says (MS 2025–26 session)

265 classified statements: 265 posts on X. Each rate is the share of statements with the label, against the State Senate Republicans average; rank 1 is the highest rate.

| Label | Sparks | State Senate Republicans average | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal attacks | 8.3% | 2.3% | 25 of 354 |
| Policy criticism | 8.7% | 9.5% | 143 of 354 |
| Policy discussion | 21.1% | 37.3% | 275 of 354 |
| Bipartisanship | 0.4% | 2.3% | 250 of 354 |
| Credit claiming | 2.6% | 15.4% | 303 of 354 |
| Extreme labels | 0.8% | 1.3% | 124 of 354 |

Most discussed policy areas: Government Operations and Politics 31% (State Senate Republicans 17%); Economics and Public Finance 27% (State Senate Republicans 12%); Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues 15% (State Senate Republicans 5.0%); Labor and Employment 11% (State Senate Republicans 3.2%); Crime and Law Enforcement 9.1% (State Senate Republicans 12%).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.12 (standard error 0.02), from 35 donors and 1,004 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 17% of State Senate Republicans score lower.

## Votes (MS 2025–26 session)

2,120 roll calls. Attendance 99.4% (Mississippi Senate 97.1%). Party unity 95.7% (88%). 28 votes against the party majority.

Key votes:

- 2026-07-16 · voted yea · Passage · HB 2 Appropriation; Department of Human Services of. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/20261E/HB2/
- 2026-07-16 · voted yea · Passage · HB 1 Appropriation; Department of Human Services to establish and implement youth diversion program. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/20261E/HB1/
- 2026-07-15 · voted yea · Passage as Amended · SB 2001 The Mississippi Youth Court Reform Act of 2026; enact. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/20261E/SB2001/
- 2026-04-02 · voted yea · Adopt Conference Report · SB 2474 Rare Disease Task Force; establish within the Mississippi Rare Disease Advisory Council. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB2474/
- 2026-04-02 · voted yea · Adopt Conference Report · HB 1761 Alcoholic beverages; extend repealers relating to festival wine permits. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/HB1761/
- 2026-04-02 · voted yea · Adopt Conference Report · HB 1772 Mississippi Department of Human Services; extend repealers on. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/HB1772/
- 2026-04-02 · voted yea · Adopt Conference Report · SB 2917 Budget; provide for various transfers of funds, and create various special funds. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB2917/
- 2026-04-01 · voted yea · Adopt Conference Report · HB 1330 Local Option Alcoholic Beverage Control Law; revise definition of "qualified resort area". · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/HB1330/
- 2026-04-01 · voted nay · Adopt Conference Report · HB 1662 Joint custody matters; create rebuttable presumption in favor of. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/HB1662/
- 2026-04-01 · voted yea · Passage · HB 4120 Suffrage; restore to Charles Kenneth Landrum of Jones County. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/HB4120/

## Legislation (MS 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 64 bills: 64 reached committee, 44 passed one chamber, 14 passed both, 10 became law. Cosponsored 77. 68.8% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Mississippi Senate 34.7%; rank 5 of 47).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SR 127: Recognize WWII Veteran Staff Sergeant William Thurman Epps and congratulate upon the occasion of his 100th birthday. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-31) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SR127/
- SR 118: Commend Tishomingo County High School Lady Braves Basketball Team for Class 4A State Championship. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-31) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SR118/
- SR 119: Congratulate Tishomingo High School's Meg Moore as "Gatorade Mississippi Girls Basketball Player of the Year." (passed one chamber, 2026-03-31) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SR119/
- SR 117: Commend Booneville High School Lady Blue Devils Girls Basketball Team for back-to-back 3A State Championships. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-31) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SR117/
- SB 3388: Prentiss County; authorize assessments on convictions for maintenance and renovations of courthouse. (in committee, 2026-04-15) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB3388/
- SB 2416: Law enforcement officers; entitled to certain follow-up drug testing before loss of certification. (became law, 2026-03-13) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB2416/
- SB 2417: State employee telework policies; reenact and amend. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-03) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB2417/
- SB 2672: Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services; bring forward code sections. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-03) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB2672/
- SB 2671: Maximum compensation for certain public officers and employees; bring forward code section concerning. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-03) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB2671/
- SB 2336: Expungement and criminal liability; amend provisions related to human trafficking. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-03) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB2336/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $21.3K (State Senate Republicans median $46.2K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Recent statements

Newest first. Posts on X are listed by date and link only.

- 2026-09-29 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/Sparks4Senate/status/2104944551035027819
- 2026-09-19 · Post on X · https://x.com/Sparks4Senate/status/2101393970777489830
- 2026-09-16 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/Sparks4Senate/status/2100018482221871572
- 2026-09-15 · Post on X · https://x.com/Sparks4Senate/status/2099649966033535464
- 2026-09-15 · Post on X · labels: personal attacks · https://x.com/Sparks4Senate/status/2099650896317628461
- 2026-09-11 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/Sparks4Senate/status/2098383371705462914
- 2026-09-02 · Post on X · https://x.com/Sparks4Senate/status/2095119288193421394
- 2026-08-25 · Post on X · https://x.com/Sparks4Senate/status/2092349748019610091
- 2026-08-25 · Post on X · https://x.com/Sparks4Senate/status/2092385119734542724
- 2026-08-21 · Post on X · https://x.com/Sparks4Senate/status/2090827835183112703

## Links

- Official site: https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/members/senate/sparks.xml
- X: https://x.com/Sparks4Senate
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sparks4senate/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/32153f0b-aa40-4989-9787-e2608c55a87e