US Midterms 2026
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat who has represented New York's 14th congressional district since 2019, is seeking re-election in 2026 against Republican real estate developer Diamant Hysenaj.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was born on October 13, 1989, in the Parkchester neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City, to Sergio Ocasio-Roman, an architect born in the Bronx to a Puerto Rican family, and Blanca Ocasio-Cortez, who was born in Puerto Rico and raised in Arecibo.
When she was five, the family moved to a small house in suburban Yorktown Heights, and she graduated from Yorktown High School in 2007.
During college she interned in the Boston office of U.S. senator Ted Kennedy, and she graduated cum laude from Boston University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts in international relations and economics.
After college she returned to the Bronx, where she worked as a bartender and waitress, launched the publishing venture Brook Avenue Press and served as an educational director for the National Hispanic Institute.
Before running for office, Ocasio-Cortez worked as an organizer for the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign.
She began her own congressional campaign in April 2017 and, in the Democratic primary on June 26, 2018, defeated Democratic Caucus chair Joe Crowley, a 10-term incumbent, with 56.7% of the vote.
She went on to win the general election with 78% of the vote against Republican Anthony Pappas and took office in 2019 at age 29, becoming the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. A member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, she was reelected in 2020, 2022 and 2024.
Her platform includes support for worker cooperatives, Medicare for All, tuition-free public colleges, a jobs guarantee, a Green New Deal and abolishing ICE.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is seeking another term in New York's 14th congressional district, which covers North Queens and the East Bronx, including Corona, Astoria, Hunts Point, Parkchester and Co-Op City. She was re-elected with 69.2% of the vote in 2024.
In the 2026 Democratic primary she won 87% of the vote against former business executive Felipe Garcia and Marty Dolan, a candidate for this district in 2024, the highest share any New York incumbent received in a contested primary during the 2026 cycle.
Her Republican opponent is Diamant Hysenaj, a real estate developer, in a Republican field where three other candidates were disqualified. Ocasio-Cortez also appears on the Working Families Party line and Hysenaj on the Conservative Party line in the general election on November 3, 2026.
