Anjali Taneja
Anjali Taneja (Democratic Party) ran for election to the New Mexico House of Representatives to represent District 18. She lost in the Democratic primary on June 4, 2024.
Taneja completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Anjali Taneja was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey. She earned a bachelor's degree from Lehigh University in 1999, graduated from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in 2000, and earned an M.D. from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in 2005. Her career experience includes working as a doctor, executive director, and assistant professor..[1]
Elections
2024
See also: New Mexico House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for New Mexico House of Representatives District 18
Marianna Anaya won election in the general election for New Mexico House of Representatives District 18 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Marianna Anaya (D)  | 100.0 | 11,668 |
| Total votes: 11,668 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for New Mexico House of Representatives District 18
Marianna Anaya defeated Anjali Taneja, Gloria Doherty, and Juan Larranaga in the Democratic primary for New Mexico House of Representatives District 18 on June 4, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Marianna Anaya | 49.0 | 2,258 |
 | Anjali Taneja | 41.2 | 1,898 | |
 | Gloria Doherty | 7.4 | 343 | |
| Juan Larranaga | 2.4 | 111 | ||
| Total votes: 4,610 | |||
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Anjali Taneja completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Taneja's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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In 2023, I collaborated with Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino to write and pass legislation to expand evidence-based opioid and addiction treatments in New Mexico prisons and jails. I have has also organized health workers and community members around successful legislative reforms to increase access to care for immigrants and to ensure that hospitals do not send low-income patients to collections.
In 2020, I was appointed to the New Mexico Governor's Council on Racial Justice. That same year, I co-founded the Coalition for a Safer Albuquerque. In 2022, I won the New Mexico Ethics in Business Award.
As the daughter of immigrants; as a queer woman of color; and as a doctor with hands-on experience in reproductive health who has spent my life working to care for underserved communities, I understand the challenges that New Mexico faces. I will invest on-the-ground expertise into the Legislature.- Albuquerque and New Mexico at large contend with life-or-death challenges. To meet the moment, the Legislature must include life-or-death expertise rooted in community and informed by the wisdom of the voices on the ground. Legislative bodies benefit from members who understand the bodily impact of policy upon our neighbors.
- Did you know that there are NO doctors serving in the New Mexico House of Representatives? Not one! I've looked into the eyes of gun violence victims while rendering emergency aid. I've held the hands of queer and transgender patients who have traveled from rural corners of the state for gender-affirming care. I provide life-saving addiction treatment and reproductive healthcare. The gravity of responsibility with which policymakers are charged is not academic to me. I understand responsibility to my fellow New Mexicans on a profound and visceral level.
- In New Mexico, we lead with love and care for each other. I've spent a decade and a half delivering real work, real care, and real results to our community. But what I will also bring to the Legislature is a commitment to bold, visionary progressivism and advancing a transformative, justice-centered agenda that ensures we all rise together.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 7, 2024
