BIOGUIDE M001246 · FEC H6NJ11286
Analilia Mejia
U.S. Representative, NJ-11 (since April 2026)DINCUMBENT
- Race
- U.S. House · New Jersey's 11th District
- Result
- Analilia Mejia, projected winner
- Opponents
- Joe Hathaway (R); Alan Bond (Hope for Tomorrow Party)
- Research
- In depth
Party line1 votes tracked
With party = voted the same way as most Democrats who voted.
Said vs. did7 statements · 1 votes
Analilia Mejia is the Democratic U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 11th Congressional District, elected in an April 2026 special election to succeed Mikie Sherrill after Sherrill became governor, and won election to a full term on November 3, 2026, according to unofficial results. She has worked as a labor and political organizer, including as director of the New Jersey Working Families Alliance, deputy director of the U.S. Department of Labor's Women's Bureau, and national political director of Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign. She sits on the Homeland Security and Small Business committees.[1][2][3][4]
Compare statements with votes ›On the ballotU.S. House · 11
2026-11-03
| Analilia Mejia D | incumbent |
| Joe Hathaway R | challenger |
| Alan Bond Hope for Tomorrow Party | challenger |
Won the April 16, 2026 special election and the June 2, 2026 Democratic primary
Said vs. did
Each documented position next to the recorded floor votes we map to the same issue. Votes are compared one at a time; no overall stance is inferred from them.
Supports a Medicare for All system with universal coverage, no out-of-pocket costs, and comprehensive benefits including dental, vision, and mental health care.
Documented position[5]
No recorded floor vote in our key-vote set maps to this issue.
Supports raising the federal minimum wage to $25 an hour, citing her prior role leading the campaign that won a $15 state minimum wage in New Jersey.
Documented position[5]
No recorded floor vote in our key-vote set maps to this issue.
Supports an Ultra-Millionaires' Tax on fortunes over $50 million, a minimum 25% income tax on billionaires including unrealized gains, and taxing investment income at the same rate as wages.
Documented position[5]
No recorded floor vote in our key-vote set maps to this issue.
Supports the Homes for All Act to build 8.5 million public-housing units and a ban on hedge funds and private-equity firms buying single-family homes.
Documented position[5]
No recorded floor vote in our key-vote set maps to this issue.
Supports a moratorium on new AI data centers and requiring big technology companies to pay for the energy they use, with proceeds invested in clean energy.
Documented position[5]
No recorded floor vote in our key-vote set maps to this issue.
Supports capping child-care costs at $10 a day for families (free for lower-income families) by reintroducing the Child Care for Every Community Act and funding it with new taxes on billionaires and corporations.
Documented position[5]
No recorded floor vote in our key-vote set maps to this issue.
Cosponsored H.R. 12, the Women's Health Protection Act of 2025 (119th Congress), which would establish a federal statutory right to provide and receive abortion services.
Documented position[6]
No recorded floor vote in our key-vote set maps to this issue.
No statement on this issue in our sources.
- YESWar Powers Resolution directing removal of forces from Iran hostilities (H. Con. Res. 86, 2026-06-03), which directed the removal of U.S. forces from hostilities against Iran absent congressional authorization.[7]
Biography
Analilia Mejia is the Democratic U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 11th Congressional District, elected in an April 2026 special election to succeed Mikie Sherrill after Sherrill became governor, and won election to a full term on November 3, 2026, according to unofficial results. She has worked as a labor and political organizer, including as director of the New Jersey Working Families Alliance, deputy director of the U.S. Department of Labor's Women's Bureau, and national political director of Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign. She sits on the Homeland Security and Small Business committees.[1][2][3][4]
Analilia Mejia was born on August 19, 1977, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and raised in the state, the daughter of Colombian and Dominican immigrants. Her official biography says her mother worked as a seamstress and that the family's finances changed when her mother got a union job.[3][2] She earned a bachelor's degree in comparative literature (2000), a Master of Public Policy (2002), and a master's in labor relations and education (2003), all at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.[3][1] Mejia began her career as a union organizer; Wikipedia lists her as an organizer with the United Food and Commercial Workers, political director of SEIU Local 32BJ, and assistant political director at UNITE HERE in Chicago.[2][3]
Mejia was Latino and labor vote director for Sen. Bob Menendez's 2012 re-election campaign, and from 2014 she served as director of the New Jersey Working Families Alliance, where her official biography says she led campaigns for a $15 minimum wage and paid sick leave.[3][2] She was a delegate for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary and left the Working Families Alliance in 2019 to become national political director of his 2020 presidential campaign.[3][1] During the Biden administration she served as deputy director of the Women's Bureau at the U.S. Department of Labor, and she then became co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy.[2][3][1]
Mejia announced her candidacy for the special election on November 25, 2025, after Mikie Sherrill won the governorship. She won the February 5, 2026 special Democratic primary with 29.3% in an 11-candidate field, then defeated Joe Hathaway (R) and Alan Bond (independent) in the April 16, 2026 special general election with 60.2% of the vote.[3][1] She was sworn into the House on April 20, 2026, and assigned to the Homeland Security and Small Business committees. She has introduced legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $25 an hour.[3][2] Her official biography says she lives in Glen Ridge and is a mother.[2] She won the November 3, 2026 general election with 60.8% of the vote to Joe Hathaway's 38.3% and Alan Bond's 0.9%, according to unofficial results reported by NBC News.[4]
Recent votes
| Date | Party line | Measure |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-03 | With partyvoted yes | War Powers Resolution directing removal of forces from Iran hostilitiesH. Con. Res. 86 · Passed 215–208 · roll call ↗Democrats 211–1 · Republicans 4–207 |
On the record
Official actions: bills, executive acts, filings and court records.
- actionAssumed office April 20, 2026 after winning the special election; the district's key House floor votes for the current Congress are compiled separately in this guide.[8]
In their own words
Priorities
- Making paid sick leave federal law, citing her role helping win paid sick days for hundreds of thousands of New Jersey workers.[5]
- Expanding federal child-care subsidies by reintroducing a version of Mikie Sherrill's Child Care for Every Community Act, capping child-care costs at $10/day and no more than 7% of family income.[5]
- Raising the federal minimum wage to $25/hour and exempting the first $40,000 of a full-time worker's wages from federal income tax.[5]
- Restoring federal funding for the Gateway Tunnel rail project and increasing federal funding for NJ Transit.[5]
- Passing Medicare for All, describing it as needed after what she calls Republican-driven cuts to health-insurance subsidies.[5]
Campaign money$1.8M raised · 81% from individuals · FEC through 2026-06-30
Totals this cycle
Bars share one scale (raised = full). Cash on hand can include money carried over from earlier cycles.
Who gave
- Individuals $1.5M
- PACs & committees $331K
- Party $5,600
- Own money & loans $7,000
Largest committee contributions
- Courage to Change PAC$25K
- Working Families Party PAC PAC$15K
- SEIU COPE (Service Employees International Union Committee on Political Education) PAC$15K
- Medicare for All PAC$15K
- Communications Workers of America - COPE Political Contributions Committee PAC$15K
- American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees P E O P L E PAC$15K
- Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC PAC$10K
- Machinists Non Partisan Political League of the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers PAC$10K
- Carpenters Legislative Improvement Committee United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners PAC$10K
- American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education PAC$10K
Direct contributions only; outside spending is not included. Individual donors are itemized in the FEC’s receipts. All itemized receipts ↗ FEC filing ↗
Profile: /people/analilia-mejia
Where they stood out
Voted against most of their party on 1 of 121 party-divided votes on file.
Amendment (Self) to H.R. 7567 — Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026
A yes vote adopted an amendment (Self) adding soda, defined as a carbonated beverage with over 1 gram of added sugar, sweetener or flavoring per serving, to the items SNAP benefits cannot buy. (AI-written)
What it does: Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 This bill (commonly known as the farm bill) reauthorizes through FY2031 and modifies Department of Agriculture programs that address commodity support, conservation, trade…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 29–183, Republicans 156–55
Apr 30, 2026Official record ↗
Their votes on the most contested roll calls
The votes in their chamber that came out closest and most divided by party, among those they voted on. How we rank
- No
With most of their party · Passed 214–212 · Yes 214–No 212 · Democrats 0–211, Republicans 214–0
Jun 9, 2026Official record ↗
- No
With most of their party · Passed 215–211 · Yes 215–No 211 · Democrats 0–211, Republicans 215–0
Apr 29, 2026Official record ↗
- No
With most of their party · Passed 213–211 · Yes 213–No 211 · Democrats 0–210, Republicans 212–1
Jun 4, 2026Official record ↗
- No
Providing that section 11 of House Resolution 1224 shall have no force or effect
With most of their party · Passed 213–208 · Yes 213–No 208 · Democrats 0–208, Republicans 212–0
May 13, 2026Official record ↗
- No
With most of their party · Passed 216–214 · Yes 216–No 214 · Democrats 0–211, Republicans 216–2
Jul 22, 2026Official record ↗
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Sources cited in this profile
- 1.Analilia Mejia · Ballotpedia Reference
- 2.About Analilia · Office of Rep. Analilia Mejia Official record
- 3.Analilia Mejia · Wikipedia · 2026-10-21 Reference
- 4.New Jersey 11th District U.S. House election results 2026 · NBC News News report
- 5.An Economy for Everyone · Analilia Mejia campaign website · 2026-03-17 Candidate's own words
- 6.H.R. 12, the Women's Health Protection Act of 2025 (Women’s Health Protection Act of 2025) — sponsors and cosponsors · Congress.gov Official record
- 7.Roll call: War Powers Resolution directing removal of forces from Iran hostilities · Office of the Clerk, U.S. House · 2026-06-03 Official record
- 8.Analilia Mejia · Ballotpedia Reference