# Ken Chestek

Ken Chestek is a Democratic member of the Wyoming House for district 13.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Wyoming House, district 13
- Serving since: 2023-01-02
- Current term: WY 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/dcc60e43-41b3-44ef-976c-0604a295b9cd

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/dcc60e43-41b3-44ef-976c-0604a295b9cd (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

100% of Chestek’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Wyoming, in the top tenth of State House Democrats.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.55 (standard error 0.02), from 44 donors and 599 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 61% of State House Democrats score lower.

## Votes (WY 2025–26 session)

955 roll calls. Attendance 99.6% (Wyoming House 96.5%). Party unity 97.3% (76%). 34 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (WY 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 4 bills: 3 reached committee, 0 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 9.

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 114: Railroad safety. (in committee, 2026-02-10) https://openstates.org/wy/bills/2026/HB114/
- HB 37: County officials-nonpartisan elections. (in committee, 2026-02-11) https://openstates.org/wy/bills/2026/HB37/
- HB 236: County officials-nonpartisan elections. (in committee, 2025-03-03) https://openstates.org/wy/bills/2025/HB236/
- HB 213: Owners and owners' agents duties to tenants-amendments. (introduced, 2025-02-03) https://openstates.org/wy/bills/2025/HB213/
- HJ 4: Right of health care access-constitutional amendment. (in committee, 2024-02-14) https://openstates.org/wy/bills/2024/HJ4/
- HJ 10: Political expenditures-2. (in committee, 2023-02-07) https://openstates.org/wy/bills/2023/HJ10/
- HB 204: Allowable train lengths. (in committee, 2023-02-07) https://openstates.org/wy/bills/2023/HB204/
- HB 115: Elections administration. (introduced, 2023-01-31) https://openstates.org/wy/bills/2023/HB115/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $3,717 (State House Democrats median $40.4K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://wyoleg.gov/Legislators/2024/H/2095
- Campaign site: https://chestekforhd13.com/
- X: https://x.com/chestek4hd46
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChestekforHD13/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ken.chestek/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-chestek-9195712a9/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/dcc60e43-41b3-44ef-976c-0604a295b9cd