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Analilia Mejia, a Democrat and former national political director for Bernie Sanders's 2020 campaign who won New Jersey's 11th district in an April 2026 special election, seeks a full term against Republican Joe Hathaway.
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BentzKurdianAnalilia Mejia, the Congresswoman who presented a proclamation recognizing CAIR-NJ at its 20th annual North Jersey Banquet.
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Analilia Mejia was born on August 19, 1977, and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, by a mother from Colombia and a father from the Dominican Republic.
Her father worked in a sewing machine factory and her mother in a garment factory, and the family experienced poverty until her mother obtained a union-affiliated factory job in New York.
At Rutgers University in New Brunswick, Mejia earned an undergraduate degree in comparative literature in 2000, a Master of Public Policy from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in 2002, and a master's in labor relations and education from the School of Management and Labor Relations in 2003.
Analilia Mejia worked as an organizer with the United Food and Commercial Workers, served as political director of SEIU Local 32BJ and the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union, and was assistant political director at UNITE HERE in Chicago.
In 2014 she became executive director of the New Jersey Working Families Alliance, leaving in 2019 to serve as national political director for Bernie Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign.
During the Joe Biden administration she was deputy director of the United States Women's Bureau at the U.S. Department of Labor, and she later became co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy.
After Mikie Sherrill was elected governor of New Jersey, Mejia announced her candidacy for the 11th district special election on November 25, 2025.
She won the special Democratic primary held on February 5, 2026, in a field of 11 candidates that included former U.S. representative Tom Malinowski and former lieutenant governor Tahesha Way, and she defeated Republican Joe Hathaway by 20 percentage points on April 16, 2026.
She was sworn in on April 20 and serves on the House Committee on Homeland Security and the House Committee on Small Business.
Analilia Mejia is seeking a full term in New Jersey's 11th congressional district, which is centered in Morris County and includes Montclair and Morristown.
The seat became vacant on November 20, 2025, after Sherrill won the 2025 election for governor, and Mejia won the April 16, 2026, special election to fill the remainder of the term.
In the regular Democratic primary she took 81.7% of the vote against former Morristown mayor Donald Cresitello, Chatham Borough councilmember Justin Strickland and tech engineer Joseph Lewis.
In a rematch of the special election, she faces Republican Joe Hathaway, a Randolph Township Council member and former mayor, on November 3, 2026.
