Taylor Johnson

Taylor Johnson is the Democratic candidate for the North Dakota House of Representatives, District 35, in the November 3, 2026 general election, having advanced from the June 9, 2026 Democratic primary.[1][2] A health care data analyst raised in Bismarck, she says in a Ballotpedia survey that her priorities include paid family and medical leave, child care costs, public education and health care affordability.[3]

Taylor Johnson earned a high school diploma from Century High School, a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University in 2021 and a graduate degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2022, according to Ballotpedia.[1] In a Ballotpedia survey, she said she was born in North Dakota and works as a health care data analyst at the Human Services Research Institute, developing health care cost transparency dashboards and analytic datasets for researchers.[3] She said she is also a volunteer organizer with the Bismarck Human Rights Coalition.[3]

Johnson said in the survey that her key messages include guaranteed paid family and medical leave, reining in child care costs, strengthening public education, subsidizing health insurance premiums while regulating the cost of services, and fully funding the state Ethics Commission.[3]

Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21. Not yet independently fact-checked.