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Virginia State Senate
Mark Peake
State Senate — District 8 (sitting)
Republican
RESOLUTE Citizen Score
100
/ 100
A
Raw: 12 of 12 dynamic max
· 6 of 49 answered
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✝ God First
10/ 70
🏛️ State First
2/ 30
National Rank
#4,610 of 8,776 · bottom 47.5% among candidates with at least one scored answer
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Next Election
November 2, 2027
Primary · Not up at next scheduled election
— until
Registration deadline: 2026-10-13
Early voting: 2026-09-18 – 2026-10-31
Elections office: (804) 864-8901
Voter status: Check registration
State elections site: Virginia Department of Elections
Official Profile
Religion: Methodist (listed on the official Virginia Senate member page)
Education: Law degree
Background: VA State Senator, District 8 (Bedford County, Campbell County, City of Lynchburg), sitting since 2017 (special election to SD-22; renumbered SD-8 in 2024 redistricting). Lynchburg attorney (30+ years); five children. Was elected RPV chairman April 2025 and resigned that party post (NOT the Senate seat) effective 12/31/2025. Term ends Jan 2028.
VA State Senator, SD-8 (sitting since 2017; formerly SD-22). [2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement, state tier] Strong conservative HARD record, no deviations: pro-life (voted NO on the reproductive-freedom amendment SJ247/HJR1, on-record parental-consent objection; ReproRising 2025 grade F; sponsored SB163 barring abortion-requiring surrogacy clauses); held the marriage line (voted NO on the same-sex-marriage amendment with explicit faith rationale — 'my faith teaches me marriage is between one man and one woman' — NOT a crossover, unlike Durant); strong parental-rights advocacy; CHIEF PATRON of voter-photo-ID and registration-verification bills (SB168, SB1070); pro-2A (on record: the assault-weapons ban is 'a direct infringement on the Second Amendment'). NOTE: he resigned the RPV CHAIRMANSHIP 12/31/2025 but remains the sitting SD-8 senator. Economic-stewardship, public-justice, federal-overreach, border, and christian-liberty cells left NULL — no itemized Peake-specific record found (VPAP donor page 403). Sourcing note: lis.virginia.gov JS-rendered; named votes corroborated via VPM, Virginia Mercury, Ballotpedia News, ReproRising PDF, Wikipedia, official Senate member page.
Category Breakdown
Candidate has voted for or sponsored state legislation moving toward abortion abolition (e.g., heartbeat ban, total ban) — not merely restrictions
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Candidate opposes state funding for embryonic stem-cell research and supports state IVF embryo-protection laws
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Candidate opposes state physician-assisted suicide laws and opposes state Medicaid death-panel rationing
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Candidate has never accepted abortion-industry PAC funding for state-legislative or statewide-office campaigns
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Candidate affirms marriage as exclusively the lifelong union of one man and one woman as instituted by God
Candidate opposes state recognition of same-sex marriage / civil unions / domestic partnerships, and supports state non-recognition resolutions where federally permitted
TRUE (+2)[3]
Candidate has voted for state legislation affirming biological sex (bathroom/locker access, sports participation, minor gender-procedure bans)
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Candidate supports state no-fault divorce reform and pro-marriage policy (covenant marriage option, waiting periods, etc.)
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Candidate opposes promotion of LGBTQ+ identity in state-funded schools, state agencies, and state corporate-partnership programs
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Candidate has voted for state school-choice (vouchers, ESAs, charter expansion) and supports state homeschool freedom statutes
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Candidate has voted for state law requiring parental notification + consent on minors' medical, mental-health, and gender interventions (incl. school counseling referrals)
TRUE (+2)[4]
Candidate has voted for state law restricting CRT/SOGI/comprehensive-sex-ed/gender-ideology curricula in K-12
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Candidate has voted for state age-verification laws on pornographic content and state criminal penalties for sexualizing minors
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Candidate has voted for state RFRA-style protections for faith-based adoption + foster agencies; opposes state-mandated SS-couple placement
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Candidate affirms the right to publicly profess Christ in all spheres (workplace, military, public office, schools)
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Candidate has voted for state conscience-exemption laws (state RFRA, medical-professional carve-outs, business-owner protections)
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Candidate opposes state-level pronoun mandates + state 'hate speech' laws restricting Christian conviction
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Candidate supports state public-square Christian display protections + state legislative prayer + state Sunday-closure laws
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Candidate opposes state-funded promotion of non-Christian religious displays/curricula/holidays in state institutions
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Candidate has voted for state law protecting cash as legal tender, opposing state-level CBDC pilot programs, and protecting crypto-as-property status
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Candidate supports sound-money policies including gold/silver as constitutional money and audit/abolition of the Federal Reserve
N/A · out of tier
Candidate has voted for state balanced-budget compliance + opposed state borrowing for non-capital expenditures
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Candidate has voted for state usury caps + state predatory-lending protections + state charitable-deduction parity
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Candidate has voted for state pension/treasury divestment from ESG-aligned funds (e.g., BlackRock) + state anti-monopoly enforcement against financial cartels
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Candidate (state SoS/legislature) has voted for state hand-count requirements / opposed electronic voting machines
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Candidate (state SoS/legislature) has voted for state photo voter ID + citizenship verification at registration
Candidate has voted to restrict state early-voting windows + tighten state absentee qualifications to verified medical/military
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Candidate has voted against state mass mail-in voting expansion, against state drop-box deployment, and against legalizing ballot harvesting
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Candidate (state SoS/legislature) has voted to ban state acceptance of private election grants ('Zuckerbucks') + state penalties for foreign interference
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Candidate (state) has voted for state-funded border-security measures (e.g., TX Operation Lone Star analog, AZ wall expansion)
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Candidate (state) has voted for state laws requiring local cooperation with ICE deportation enforcement
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Candidate (state) has voted to preempt or punish sanctuary-city policies + ban state cities from declaring sanctuary status
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Candidate (state) has voted for state E-Verify mandate (beyond federal floor) for state employers + state-benefit eligibility verification
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Candidate (state) has voted to restrict foreign ownership of state farmland (e.g., China-buyer prohibitions)
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Candidate supports constitutional carry without permit requirements
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Candidate (state) has voted against state red-flag laws, mag-capacity limits, AWBs, and registries (or voted to repeal where enacted)
TRUE (+2)[7]
Candidate (state) has voted for state constitutional-carry statute
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Candidate (state) has voted against state universal-background-check schemes
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1 claim
Voted against SB2 assault weapons ban.
Candidate (state) has voted to enact / strengthen state Castle Doctrine + stand-your-ground statute
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Candidate has publicly backed law enforcement and opposed defunding/dismantling police
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Candidate opposes cashless-bail, soft-on-crime, and rogue-prosecutor (e.g. Soros-DA) policy
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Candidate supports victim restitution and proportional punishment of evildoers
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Candidate refuses to treat violent crime as a "public health" excuse to avoid punishment
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Candidate affirms the magistrate's God-ordained duty to bear the sword (Rom. 13:4)
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Official has voted for or sponsored 10th-Amendment nullification or anti-commandeering measures
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Official has declined unconstitutional federal mandates or federal strings on the state
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Official has resisted federal overreach on guns, life, education, or religious liberty
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Official affirms state sovereignty against unconstitutional federal action
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Official has opposed federal capture of state elections, data, or land
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References & footnotes
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- [1]Voted NO on the reproductive-freedom constitutional amendment (SJ247 01/21/2025; HJR1 01/16/2026), on-record opposing it over lack of parental consent / no age distinction; ReproRising 2025 grade F; sponsored SB163 to bar surrogacy contracts requiring abortion. Lean Left
Voted NO on the reproductive-freedom constitutional amendment (SJ247 01/21/2025; HJR1 01/16/2026), on-record opposing it over lack of parental consent / no age distinction; ReproRising 2025 grade F; sponsored SB163 to bar surrogacy contracts requiring abortion.
- [2]Voted NO on the reproductive-freedom constitutional amendment (SJ247 01/21/2025; HJR1 01/16/2026), on-record opposing it over lack of parental consent / no age distinction; ReproRising 2025 grade F; sponsored SB163 to bar surrogacy contracts requiring abortion. Left Advocacy
Voted NO on the reproductive-freedom constitutional amendment (SJ247 01/21/2025; HJR1 01/16/2026), on-record opposing it over lack of parental consent / no age distinction; ReproRising 2025 grade F; sponsored SB163 to bar surrogacy contracts requiring abortion.
- [3]Voted NO on the same-sex-marriage constitutional amendment, stating 'my faith teaches me marriage is between one man and one woman' and that he would 'campaign vigorously against' all three amendments; not among the GOP crossovers. Center
Voted NO on the same-sex-marriage constitutional amendment, stating 'my faith teaches me marriage is between one man and one woman' and that he would 'campaign vigorously against' all three amendments; not among the GOP crossovers.
- [4]Repeated, on-record parental-notification/consent advocacy — central to his objection that the abortion amendment 'doesn't distinguish between adults and minors so we're very concerned that will do away with parental consent.' Lean Left
Repeated, on-record parental-notification/consent advocacy — central to his objection that the abortion amendment 'doesn't distinguish between adults and minors so we're very concerned that will do away with parental consent.'
- [5]Chief patron of voter-photo-ID legislation (SB168, SB1070) and a registration-verification bill requiring registrars to match name/DOB/SSN against the SSA database. Center
Chief patron of voter-photo-ID legislation (SB168, SB1070) and a registration-verification bill requiring registrars to match name/DOB/SSN against the SSA database.
- [6]Chief patron of voter-photo-ID legislation (SB168, SB1070) and a registration-verification bill requiring registrars to match name/DOB/SSN against the SSA database. Official
Chief patron of voter-photo-ID legislation (SB168, SB1070) and a registration-verification bill requiring registrars to match name/DOB/SSN against the SSA database.
- [7]On-record opposition to the 2026 assault-weapons ban (SB749), calling it 'a direct infringement on the Second Amendment'; Republicans (incl. Peake) in the NO bloc. Lean Left
On-record opposition to the 2026 assault-weapons ban (SB749), calling it 'a direct infringement on the Second Amendment'; Republicans (incl. Peake) in the NO bloc.
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