# Mark Walker

Mark Walker is a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate for district 27.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Illinois Senate, district 27
- Serving since: 2024-05-11
- Current term: IL 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/d1c2870a-8fee-47bf-a48e-4320311f06fd

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/d1c2870a-8fee-47bf-a48e-4320311f06fd (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

Walker reported $396.0K in the 2024 cycle, in the top tenth of State Senate Democrats (median $16.2K).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.56 (standard error 0.03), from 32 donors and 1,110 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 64% of State Senate Democrats score lower.

## Votes (IL 2025–26 session)

1,502 roll calls. Attendance 99.0% (Illinois Senate 95.4%). Party unity 99.5% (95.3%). 2 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (IL 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 24 bills: 24 reached committee, 11 passed one chamber, 6 passed both, 5 became law. Cosponsored 219. 50.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Illinois Senate 42.1%; rank 21 of 59).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SR 819: CONGRATS-LAZARO LOPEZ, ED.D. (passed one chamber, 2026-06-01) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/SR819/
- SB 4204: PROP TX-FARMLAND VALUATION (in committee, 2026-05-13) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/SB4204/
- SB 3902: TITLE INSURANCE-VARIOUS (in committee, 2026-04-24) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/SB3902/
- SB 3903: FINANCIAL REG-FEES-INVESTIGATE (in committee, 2026-04-17) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/SB3903/
- HB 5384: FINANCIAL REG-FEES-INVESTIGATE (became law, 2026-06-26) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/HB5384/
- HB 5119: PEN CD-PENSION FUND REGULATION (passed one chamber, 2026-04-30) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/HB5119/
- SB 3447: INS-FINANCIAL REGULATION FEES (in committee, 2026-02-04) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/SB3447/
- SB 3311: REVENUE-TECH (in committee, 2026-02-03) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/SB3311/
- SB 3237: INTERCHANGE FEE-REPEAL (in committee, 2026-02-02) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/SB3237/
- SB 2839: TIF-Various (in committee, 2026-05-22) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/SB2839/

## Campaign money (2024 cycle)

Itemized receipts $396.0K (State Senate Democrats median $16.2K). 97% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?GA=103&MemberID=3261
- Campaign site: https://markwalker4illinois.com/
- X: https://x.com/walktalker1
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.l.walker.77
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/markwalker4illinoishouse/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markwalker4illinois/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-walker-337b9616/k-walker-10093617/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/d1c2870a-8fee-47bf-a48e-4320311f06fd