Democrat · House · CA
Mark Takano
Placed from the roll-call score. Bioguide T000472.
Mark Takano is the Democrat representative for the House from CA, district 39 in the 119th Congress. The chart uses the October 2026 snapshot. The position is Voteview’s DW-NOMINATE score of the roll calls. Color is the party label. The place is the votes.
The first dimension is -0.457, drawn as economics -46. That is left of center on economics. The second dimension is -0.339, drawn as authority -34. The other axis sits toward liberty. Voteview’s second dimension is not a pure social axis. The chart uses the public file anyway, rather than inventing a different number.
Inside the House, this first-dimension score ranks 54 of 433 from the left. The first-dimension score is left of the Democrat median in this chamber (-0.39). The nearest other House scores are Jill N. Tokuda (Democrat, -0.455), Kweisi Mfume (Democrat, -0.441), Judy Chu (Democrat, -0.479). Those names are neighbors on the scale, not a slate.
The member’s official site (https://takano.house.gov), under “Education and Labor,” says: “As a teacher for more than 20 years, I bring practical knowledge to Congress about which educational reforms will impact classroom performance…” Those are the member’s words. They are not the same thing as the roll-call score.
One left-to-right score cannot say how Mark Takano would vote on a single bill. The identity and the vote file can be checked at congress.gov through bioguide T000472.