State Representative
This race uses ranked-choice voting: rank the candidates in order of preference. How it works
What does this office do?
- Voting on how much you pay in state taxes
- Voting on how much money your local public schools get
- Voting on which roads and highways get built or repaired
Affects: AI Regulation, Healthcare Affordability, Environment and Public Health,
Candidates:
Registered Republican
Aimee Sims is a public school teacher who has worked for the Anchorage School District's Family Partnership Correspondence School since 1998. She focuses on public safety, school funding and careful state spending that protects the Permanent Fund.
Registered Democrat · Incumbent
Donna Mears is an engineer who has represented East Anchorage in the Alaska House since 2023 and once chaired the Anchorage Health and Human Services Commission. She focuses on school funding, the cost of living, energy diversity and food security.
Records: Public Education Quality 3 for, Civil Rights 2 for, Corporate Accountability 2 for,
Source: elections.alaska.gov