# Stella Pekarsky

Stella Pekarsky is a Democratic member of the Virginia Senate for district 36.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Virginia Senate, district 36
- Serving since: 2024-01-10
- Current term: VA 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/138f964d-7137-487b-96d6-ad836b67db83

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/138f964d-7137-487b-96d6-ad836b67db83 (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

59% of Pekarsky’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Virginia, in the bottom tenth of State Senate Democrats.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.88 (standard error 0.04), from 148 donors and 599 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 20% of State Senate Democrats score lower.

## Votes (VA 2025–26 session)

6,566 roll calls. Attendance 98.1% (Virginia Senate 97.8%). Party unity 99.0% (95.7%). 23 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (VA 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 65 bills: 65 reached committee, 45 passed one chamber, 33 passed both, 26 became law. Cosponsored 126. 90.8% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Virginia Senate 90.1%; rank 20 of 40).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SJ 255: Celebrating the life of Michael R. Frey. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-25) https://openstates.org/va/bills/2026/SJ255/
- SR 111: Commending the Centreville Volunteer Fire Department. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-26) https://openstates.org/va/bills/2026/SR111/
- SB 678: Special ed. and related services; rights, etc., relating to education of children with disabilities. (in committee, 2026-02-10) https://openstates.org/va/bills/2026/SB678/
- SB 615: Consumer Data Protection Act; online device pricing, prohibition. (in committee, 2026-01-28) https://openstates.org/va/bills/2026/SB615/
- SB 678: Special ed. and related services; rights, etc., relating to education of children with disabilities. (in committee, 2026-07-21) https://openstates.org/va/bills/2027/SB678/
- SB 615: Consumer Data Protection Act; online device pricing, prohibition. (in committee, 2026-07-21) https://openstates.org/va/bills/2027/SB615/
- SB 685: School bd. policies; communication & language accessibility for limited English proficient parents. (became law, 2026-04-13) https://openstates.org/va/bills/2026/SB685/
- SB 394: Artificial intelligence; use of systems for student instruction. (became law, 2026-04-13) https://openstates.org/va/bills/2026/SB394/
- SB 491: Public schools; right to free public elementary and secondary education, discrimination, etc. (became law, 2026-04-13) https://openstates.org/va/bills/2026/SB491/
- SB 308: Drug overdose and drug overdose deaths; VDH to develop plan for opioid overdose response. (became law, 2026-04-13) https://openstates.org/va/bills/2026/SB308/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $69.1K (State Senate Democrats median $55.5K). 59% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://apps.senate.virginia.gov/Senator/memberpage.php?id=S124
- Campaign site: https://stellapekarsky.com/
- X: https://x.com/Stella4Senate
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Stella4Sully/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stella.pekarsky
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stellapekarsky/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stella-pekarsky-129778152/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/138f964d-7137-487b-96d6-ad836b67db83