# Karen Spilka

Karen Spilka is a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate for district Middlesex and Norfolk.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Massachusetts Senate, district Middlesex and Norfolk
- Serving since: 2023-01-04
- Current term: MA 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/e48879ef-ed74-4f93-8e5b-c0f3752d4fd7

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/e48879ef-ed74-4f93-8e5b-c0f3752d4fd7 (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

Spilka reported $515.1K in the 2026 cycle, in the top tenth of State Senate Democrats (median $55.5K).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.93 (standard error 0.02), from 3,620 donors and 0 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 16% of State Senate Democrats score lower.

## Legislation (MA 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 5 bills: 0 reached committee, 0 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 0. 0.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Massachusetts Senate 2.0%; rank 37 of 40).

Recent sponsored bills:

- S 2656: Precept setting forth the Special Election to fill the vacancy of the First Middlesex Senatorial District (introduced, 2025-10-20) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/S2656/
- SD 3268: Recess of the Joint Session (introduced, 2025-10-06) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/SD3268/
- SD 153: Order relative to establishing temporary committees on Ways and Means and Bills in the Third Reading (introduced, 2025-01-09) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/SD153/
- S 5: Order relative to establishing a temporary committee on rules (introduced, 2025-01-06) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/S5/
- SD 17: Communication from the Honorable Karen E. Spilka, President of the Senate, announcing appointments to the temporary committee on rules (introduced, 2025-01-06) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/SD17/
- S 2404: Special Election for the Worcester and Hampshire district (introduced, 2023-06-15) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/193rd/S2404/
- S 3118: Amendment S.3118 (introduced, 2022-09-26) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/192nd/S3118/
- S 3079: Amendment S.3079 (introduced, 2022-07-29) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/192nd/S3079/
- SD 3122: Communication from the Honorable Karen E. Spilka, President of the Senate, announcing the appointment of Lena Joseph (pursuant to Section 26 of Chapter 260 of… (introduced, 2022-04-25) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/192nd/SD3122/
- SD 3123: Communication from the Honorable Karen E. Spilka, President of the Senate, announcing the appointment of Sonia Shah (pursuant to Section 66 of Chapter 3 of… (introduced, 2022-04-25) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/192nd/SD3123/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $515.1K (State Senate Democrats median $55.5K). 83% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://malegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/KES0
- Campaign site: https://karenspilka.com/
- X: https://x.com/spilka4congress
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/senatorkarenspilka/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senspilka/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-spilka-3239a45/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/e48879ef-ed74-4f93-8e5b-c0f3752d4fd7