Iowa Education Legislative Watch
Official portrait of Mark Costello
StateIowa Senate

Mark Costello

State senator, Senate District 8

Party
Republican
District
Senate District 8See it on a street map
Committees
Senate Health and Human Services (vice chair)
Tracked votes
75
The record

Voting record

Votes on the education bills we track. Each bill links to its history, text and who sponsored it.

Campaign money

Who funds their campaign

Money given to Mark Costello’s campaign for the Iowa Senate, from reports it files with the state. It doesn’t include money raised for any other race, such as a run for Congress, which is reported to the Federal Election Commission instead. We show totals; we don’t name individual donors.

$96,141raised in 2023–24, through Dec 6, 2024

  • Individuals
  • PACs
  • Party committees
From Iowa
86%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
22%
of individuals’ money came in gifts of $100 or less; 25% in gifts of $1,000 or more

Biggest donors

PACs, party committees, other campaigns and organizations.

  1. Iowa Health PACPAC$14,500
  2. Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Political Action CommitteePAC$10,000
  3. IHA PACPAC$6,000
  4. Wellmark, Inc. PAC or WellPACPAC$6,000
  5. Associated General Contractors of Iowa PACPAC$5,000
  6. Iowa Providers PACPAC$4,500
  7. Iowa Dental Political Action CommitteePAC$4,250
  8. Bankers Unite in Legislative Decisions AKA: BUILDPAC$3,500
  9. Elite PACPAC$3,000
  10. IOWA MEDICAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEPAC$2,600
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2023–24
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$3,9764%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$90,76594%
Party committees State and county party committees$1,4001%
Other candidates Other politicians’ campaign committees$00%
Businesses and other Businesses, groups, unregistered committees and unitemized gifts$00%
In-kind gifts (included above)$910%

Totals cover their campaign committee only, not money spent by outside groups. In-kind gifts count at their reported value. Party money often passes through caucus committees, which show up here as PACs. How we count campaign money

From Iowa Campaign Contributions Received, published by the Iowa Ethics & Campaign Finance Disclosure Commission under CC BY-NC 4.0. We total and summarize the reports as campaigns filed them. Last checked Nov 7.

Where bills start

Committees

Where they serve

Senate District 8

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Mark Costello represents Senate District 8, which takes in parts or all of Pottawattamie, Harrison, Fremont and Mills counties.

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District lines from the US Census Bureau, drawn in Iowa’s 2021 redistricting. Street map © OpenStreetMap contributors, OpenFreeMap.

Legislator details from Open States. Votes last checked Nov 7. Report a mistake