Mark Takano
American politician (born 1960)
Illustration by Vugol.me, adapted from Official U.S. Congress portrait · Public domain
Races
- 2026 · U.S. House, CA-39 · General · Democratic · on the ballot · incumbent
- 2024 · U.S. House, CA-39 · General · Democratic · result not on file · incumbent · source
- 2022 · U.S. House, CA-39 · General · Democratic · won · 75,896 votes (57.7%) · incumbent · source
- 2020 · U.S. House, CA-41 · General · Democratic · won · 168,126 votes (64.0%) · source
- 2018 · U.S. House, CA-41 · General · Democratic · won · 108,227 votes (65.1%) · source
Background
Mark Allan Takano is an American politician and academic who has served in the United States House of Representatives since 2013, representing California's 41st congressional district from 2013 to 2023 and the 39th congressional district since 2023.
More
A member of the Democratic Party, Takano became the first gay person of Asian descent in Congress upon taking office.
Campaign finance
As of 2026-06-30 · Source: FEC
Website and social
Sources
- Official portrait — public-domain congressional image set (unitedstates project)
- Background — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-20 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Takano
- Website and social links — Wikidata (CC0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q399593
- Official social accounts — congress-legislators dataset (unitedstates project)
- Roster — FEC filing — https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H2CA43245/
- photo_action — https://takano.house.gov/about/biography
- photo_headshot — https://github.com/unitedstates/images
- photo_full_body — https://takano.house.gov/about/biography
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