DemocratIn office since Nov 2022

Donna Mears

Alaska State Representative, District 21 since 2022. Ran in 2 elections between 2022 and 2024, winning 2. Re-elected in 2026. Next on the ballot in 2028.

Alaska State Representative, District 21Civil engineer

Official website Wikipedia

In office: 3 yrs; Since 2022
Bills became law: 0; 7 sponsored, 2025–2026 session
Votes missed: 0.4%; Chamber median 0.6%
With party: 99%; On votes splitting the parties
Last margin: +15.7; Won 2026
Next election: 2028; Nov 7, 2028

Source: Wikidata, congress-legislators and Open States; 99chambers legislative recordsUpdated Oct 27, 2026, 1:52 PM ET

Committees

As of 2026-10.

Community and Regional Affairs · co-chair
Energy Special · co-chair
Legislative Council · alternate
Health and Social Services
Resources

Source: Open States committeesUpdated Oct 27, 2026, 9:43 AM ET

Legislation

2025–2026 session · 7 sponsored · 0 became law

No bills in this list for the 2025–2026 session.

Source: Open States billsUpdated Nov 6, 2026, 4:22 PM ET

Voting record

2025–2026 session · placement by roll-call votes

Where Mears sits in the Alaska House of Representatives

Mears is closer to the center than 21% of the chamber's Democrats.

Closest: Ted Eischeid, Ky Holland, Ashley Carrick

Source: 99chambers roll-call scalingUpdated Nov 6, 2026, 4:44 PM ET

With Mears’s party

Votes with the chamber's Democrats99%
Cosponsorships of the other party's bills44%

Black tick: the average of Democrats in the Alaska House of Representatives.

Source: 99chambers legislative scores from roll calls and cosponsorships

Key votes

Votes chosen for their effect, not their side: Mears’s vote, each party’s majority, and the result. An orange vote differs from most Democrats.

Date	Bill	Mears	Dem. majority	Rep. majority	Result
May 20, 2026	HB 16: An Act requiring a group supporting or opposing a candidate or ballot proposition in a…	Yes	Yes	No	Passed 21–19
May 19, 2026	SB 24: An Act relating to tobacco, tobacco products, electronic smoking products, nicotine, and…	No	No	Yes	Failed 19–21
May 19, 2026	SB 174: An Act establishing the Alaska Invasive Species Council in the Department of Fish and…	No	No	No	Failed 16–23
May 19, 2026	HB 263: An Act making appropriations for the operating and loan program expenses of state…	Yes	Yes	No	Passed 21–19
May 17, 2026	SB 208: An Act relating to industrial hemp; relating to the sale and lease of state land for…	No	No	Yes	Failed 19–21

Source: 99chambers key votes from Congress.gov, Voteview and Open States roll calls

Career

Offices held, and every time Mears was on a ballot. Filled marks are general elections won; hollow marks are primaries; an orange outline is a loss.

2022202320242025202620272028Alaska House of Representatives, District 21

Source: 99chambers results archive (MEDSL, Klarner, state election offices)

Elections

Margin against the seat’s presidential baseline: how the seat voted for president in the same or nearest year.

Year	Race	Result	Margin	Seat	+/−
2026	Alaska House of Representatives, District 21	Won	D+15.7	D+8.4	+7.3
2024	Alaska House of Representatives, District 21	Won	D+11.0	D+8.4	+2.6
2022	Alaska House of Representatives, District 21	Won	D+2.1	D+6.6	−4.5