House · Democrat
Benjamin Swan
Data through FY2026; built October 19, 2026.
Residence
Springfield
First elected
House 1994 (special)
Occupation
Consultant
Left office
defeated in the 2016 Democratic primary; term ended January 4, 2017
| Session | Chamber | District | Lines | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | House | 11th Hampden | 2011 lines |
Posts and stipends
No stipend payments to Benjamin Swan are recorded for 2016–2026.
| Session | Posts | First year | Second year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | Assistant vice chair, House Committee on Ways and Means; Assistant vice chair, Joint Committee on Ways and Means | not available | not available |
Posts: the Legislature’s leadership and roster records as compiled for this project; where those name no post, the member’s committee chair, vice-chair and ranking roles from the Legislature’s member profiles. Stipends: additional compensation in the Comptroller’s payroll data (CTHRU dataset 9ttk-7vz6), 2016–2026; 2026 is the year to date. Stipends for 2015 are not available. Base salary is not included.
The district
11th Hampden on its 2011 lines: 1 city or town, 41,667 residents (2020).
Percentages are each place’s share of the district’s 2020 residents; for a town split between districts, the share of the town inside this one follows.
Population-weighted Fairness Index of the district’s cities and towns: 79 for all state aid and 50 for discretionary money (50 is a fair share).
Local earmarks are counted three ways. District money uses the first, clauses that name a place in the district; the second table adds organizations located in the district (placed in the district) and state facilities located there (everything placed). Three ways to count a local earmark.
| Session | District | Dollars | In corrective clauses | Per resident per budget, rank | Without corrective clauses, rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | 11th Hampden | $318,000 | $0 | $7.63 · 15th of 160 | $7.63 · 14th of 160 |
District money is where enacted earmarks land, by the place a clause names, mapped to districts by 2020 population; it is not attributed to the member and does not include leadership’s base-text money that names no place. Ranks are of district money per resident among the chamber’s districts, 1 = most. “In corrective clauses” is the part carried by a Ways and Means chair’s corrective amendments, which is leadership’s money; the last column gives the per-resident figure and rank without it. Sessions are labeled by the General Court that enacted each budget. Per-resident figures use the district as drawn for each session (2011 lines through the 192nd General Court, 2021 lines from the 193rd), so they will not equal a session’s dollars divided by the resident count above.
| Session | District | Placed in the district | Per resident per budget, rank | Everything placed | Per resident per budget, rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | 11th Hampden | $350,000 | $8.39 · 22nd of 160 | $383,000 | $9.20 · 22nd of 160 |
Budget amendments
Benjamin Swan sponsored 12 budget amendments in FY2017–FY2026, asking for $11.8 million in all.
Amendments sponsored
12
FY2017–FY2026 budgets
Adopted, known outcomes
22%
2 of 9
Chamber rate, same ask sizes
64%
expected at the chamber’s rates
Of the nine with a known outcome, two were adopted (22%). At the chamber’s adoption rate for amendments of the same size, about six (64%) would have been.
No enacted item is strongly matched to an amendment this member filed.
Strong matches: 0 enacted items, $0 (the member’s share where several amendments claim one clause). A further two weaker text matches are not listed; attribution is inferred from amendment text and is less certain there. House attribution is inferred throughout, because the House adopts most amendments inside consolidated amendments.
8 outcomes are inferred by matching amendment text to the House’s consolidated amendments, because the House records most amendments only as “Consolidated A–G.” Ask size is the larger of the earmark dollars and the line-item change an amendment requests; bands: no dollar amount, under $50,000, $50,000–$250,000, $250,000–$1 million, $1–5 million, $5 million or more. Leadership’s unattributed base-text and corrective-amendment money is never assigned to a member. The comparison describes outcomes; it is not a measure of merit.
Bills sponsored
Benjamin Swan filed 38 bills as lead sponsor in these sessions; three were enacted on their own. In completed sessions, 8% of their lead bills were enacted on their own, against a chamber median of 6% for the same sessions.
Most bills die in every legislature, and many policies pass inside other bills; the chamber median for the same session is the fair comparison.
| Session | Chamber | Lead bills | Enacted | Sent to study | Reported favorably, then died | No action | Enacted rate | Chamber median | Cosponsored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | House | 38 | 3 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 8% | 6% | 502 |
Enacted bills as lead sponsor
- H3643 (189th): An Act designating the Hampden County Superior Court as the Roderick L. Ireland Courthouse · Chapter 428 of the Acts of 2016
- H4159 (189th): An Act authorizing the change in use of certain park land in the city of Springfield · Chapter 193 of the Acts of 2016
- H4642 (189th): An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Rhodaja Shubrick, an employee of the Department of Transitional Assistance · Chapter 324 of the Acts of 2016
Outcomes are the furthest point each bill reached in the record. “Folded into an enacted bill” means the history names the enacted bill that absorbed it. “Passed both branches; no chapter recorded” means the bill was enacted by both branches and laid before the Governor, with no chapter or veto in the history; in the 194th General Court such bills are shown as laid before the Governor (pending). The 194th General Court is in session until January 2027, so its open bills are pending, not dead, and its rates (*) are not comparable with completed sessions. Chairs and leaders control the calendar, which raises their rates. Source: malegislature.gov bill histories.
Recorded votes on accountability measures
No recorded votes for Benjamin Swan on the accountability measures in this file.
The file covers selected roll calls on the Legislature’s own rules, audits, public records, term limits and pay, 2017–2026.
Campaign money in
Benjamin Swan’s committee reported $60,000 in contributions of $250 or more in years the member served, 2015–2016.
| Year | Contributions |
|---|---|
| 2015 | $28,000 |
| 2016 | $33,000 |
| Kind | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals | $58,000 | 96% |
| Political committees and PACs | $1,600 | 3% |
| Unions and associations | $1,000 | 2% |
| Employer reported | Share |
|---|---|
| A named employer | 71% |
| Self-employed | 6% |
| Retired | 2% |
| Not reported or withheld | 21% |
Not counted as contributions: $19,000 in other receipts of $250 or more in the same years (candidate loans and the candidate’s own money, transfers, refunds, bank interest and aggregated small receipts).
The same committee also reported $11,000 in years the member was not in the Legislature (2017, 2020), for example while running for another office. Those receipts are not in the totals above.
| Employer or organization | Kind | Total | Contributions |
|---|---|---|---|
| MA HOUSE | individuals, by employer | $21,000 | 12 |
| MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES | individuals, by employer | $9,660 | 6 |
| MA HOUSE OF REP S | individuals, by employer | $3,600 | 5 |
| CITY OF HOLYOKE | individuals, by employer | $1,000 | 1 |
| COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS | individuals, by employer | $1,000 | 2 |
| HARTFORD SCHOOLS | individuals, by employer | $1,000 | 1 |
| LUDLOW | individuals, by employer | $970 | 2 |
| RETIRED PUBLIC EMPLOYEES PAC | committee or PAC | $600 | 2 |
| RICHARD E NEAL MASSACHUSETTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE | committee or PAC | $500 | 1 |
| MA & NEW ENGLAND LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL | union or association | $500 | 1 |
Source: Office of Campaign and Political Finance, itemized receipts of $250 or more since 2015; OCPF filer record: Swan Committee (CPF 12626) · Swan Committee (CPF 16454). Individuals are grouped by the employer they reported; no individual contributor is named, and an employer field that is a person’s name is withheld. Massachusetts bars business contributions to candidates. Employer shows affiliation, not instruction.
Sources
Every figure traces to a public record.
- Massachusetts Legislature, members, districts and roll calls
- Budget amendments and enacted budgets, FY2017–FY2026
- CTHRU payroll, Office of the Comptroller (stipends)
- Office of Campaign and Political Finance
- District lines: Acts of 2011 and 2021; Census 2020 block populations
- Official profile (prior offices, occupation)
- Election statistics (first elected, residence)
- Leaving office (election statistics)
Facts only: posts, stipends, sponsored amendments, enacted items, roll-call votes and district money. No score or grade is computed. Associations shown here are not evidence of cause. Method.