Lana Leguia
Lana Leguia (Libertarian Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent New Jersey's 7th Congressional District. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Leguia completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Lana Leguia earned a high school diploma through homeschooling.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: New Jersey's 7th Congressional District election, 2024
New Jersey's 7th Congressional District election, 2024 (June 4 Democratic primary)
New Jersey's 7th Congressional District election, 2024 (June 4 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House New Jersey District 7
Incumbent Thomas Kean Jr. defeated Susan Altman, Andrew Black, and Lana Leguia in the general election for U.S. House New Jersey District 7 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Thomas Kean Jr. (R) | 51.8 | 223,331 | |
| Susan Altman (D) | 46.4 | 200,025 | ||
| Andrew Black (G) | 1.0 | 4,258 | ||
| Lana Leguia (L) | 0.9 | 3,784 | ||
| Total votes: 431,398 | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 7
Susan Altman advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 7 on June 4, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Susan Altman | 100.0 | 38,030 | |
| Total votes: 38,030 | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jason Blazakis (D)
- Joseph Signorello (D)
- Gregory Vartan (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 7
Incumbent Thomas Kean Jr. defeated Roger Bacon in the Republican primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 7 on June 4, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Thomas Kean Jr. | 78.2 | 37,623 | |
| Roger Bacon | 21.8 | 10,460 | ||
| Total votes: 48,083 | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Polls
- See also: Ballotpedia's approach to covering polls
Polls are conducted with a variety of methodologies and have margins of error or credibility intervals.[2] The Pew Research Center wrote, "A margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points at the 95% confidence level means that if we fielded the same survey 100 times, we would expect the result to be within 3 percentage points of the true population value 95 of those times."[3] For tips on reading polls from FiveThirtyEight, click here. For tips from Pew, click here.
The links below show polls for this race aggregated by FiveThirtyEight and RealClearPolitics, where available. Click here to read about FiveThirtyEight's criteria for including polls in its aggregation.
Election campaign finance
| Name | Party | Receipts* | Disbursements** | Cash on hand | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Kean Jr. | Republican Party | $6,014,372 | $5,998,720 | $109,731 | As of November 25, 2024 |
| Susan Altman | Democratic Party | $6,252,517 | $6,194,293 | $58,224 | As of November 25, 2024 |
| Roger Bacon | Republican Party | $0 | $0 | $0 | Data not available*** |
| Andrew Black | Green Party | $0 | $0 | $0 | Data not available*** |
| Lana Leguia | Libertarian Party | $300 | $610 | $-310 | As of October 16, 2024 |
|
Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2024. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee." |
|||||
Satellite spending
- See also: Satellite spending
Satellite spending describes political spending not controlled by candidates or their campaigns; that is, any political expenditures made by groups or individuals that are not directly affiliated with a candidate. This includes spending by political party committees, super PACs, trade associations, and 501(c)(4) nonprofit groups.[4][5][6]
If available, this section includes links to online resources tracking satellite spending in this election. To notify us of a resource to add, email us.
| By candidate | By election |
|---|---|
====Race ratings==== (general election candidates only)
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[7]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[8][9][10]
| Race ratings: New Jersey's 7th Congressional District election, 2024 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Race tracker | Race ratings | ||||||||
| November 5, 2024 | October 29, 2024 | October 22, 2024 | October 15, 2024 | ||||||
| The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter | Lean Republican | Lean Republican | Lean Republican | Lean Republican | |||||
| Decision Desk HQ and The Hill | Lean Republican | Lean Republican | Lean Republican | Lean Republican | |||||
| Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales | Tilt Republican | Tilt Republican | Tilt Republican | Tilt Republican | |||||
| Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball | Lean Republican | Lean Republican | Lean Republican | Lean Republican | |||||
| Note: Ballotpedia reviews external race ratings every week throughout the election season and posts weekly updates even if the media outlets have not revised their ratings during that week. | |||||||||
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Leguia in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Lana Leguia completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Leguia's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
| Collapse all
A lifelong advocate of individual liberty, I am dedicated to championing freedom in all my endeavors. I have lived in New Jersey since 2017, currently residing in Sussex County. I am heavily involved with the New Jersey Libertarian Party, bringing liberty to my local community, and am the chapter leader for Ladies of Liberty Alliance, New Jersey. I have a clear vision to shrink the bloated government and shake up the status-quo. I cannot be bought. I cannot be intimidated.
- We need to dismantle the military industrial complex. I support ending all foreign aid immediately, closing all US basis overseas, reducing the military budget, withdrawing from NATO, bringing all the American soldiers home, ending taxpayer funding weapon sales and subsides to corporate arms manufacturers. We need to unite behind peace and demand congress remove our role in the continuation of global conflicts and deliberate destabilization of foreign nations.
- Exposing and preventing the further expansion of surveillance state. I support ending the Patriot Act and reforming all authorizations given to the Federal Government to spy on Americans. I support ending the unconstitutional provisions and laws allowing the gathering and storing of private information.
- Immigrants make America great. I support an “Ellis Island” style immigration system and abolishing ICE.
Foreign policy, economic freedom, free market principles, personal liberty and autonomy, property rights, upholding the constitution and limiting federal power.
I look up to my mother. She is an incredible woman with multiple degrees, opened a successful dance studio in Saudi Arabia (where it was illegal to dance), homeschooled my brother and I, took care of my grandmother until she passed, taught Sunday school, is incredibly kind, funny, and so much more. Her determination is inspiring. She never told herself she couldn't achieve something and instilled the same in me. I hope to achieve as much as she has. I also hope to leave the world a little be warmer, just as she has.
Integrity, tenacity and an unflinching dedication to their value system and principles.
I have a unique ability to never give up or back down. I am not easily swayed by flattery, pride, or
bribery. I listen well and can brainstorm creative solutions to tough problems.
One that I can look back on and say that I never abandoned my principles.
McDonald's. I worked there for about a year when I was maybe 15/16.
No. Representatives are individuals who have been elected to representative their community. Congress should be incredibly diverse because of this. We should have a line up of representatives from different educational backgrounds, experience, age, race, political affiliation and different economic status. Yet, we don't. The two-party system pumps out the same puppets every two years.
The expansion of the war machine, the welfare state, corporatism, generative AI, and rising cost of living.
No. Two years leaves officials one year to learn the ropes and another to campaign for reelection. It's not enough time. I think a minimum of four years is better.
I do not support term limits.
It depends on your definition of compromise. If you are contextualizing compromise as selling out your principles and making deals with evil for small wins - no. Change happens slowly and sometimes you have to celebrate the small incremental steps towards the ideal. I would support policies heading in the direction of ultimate liberty even if in the moment it isn't the radical change I would want.
New Jersey Libertarian Party. Chase Oliver, Libertarian Presidential Candidate.
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
Campaign finance summary
Note: The finance data shown here comes from the disclosures required of candidates and parties. Depending on the election or state, this may represent only a portion of all the funds spent on their behalf. Satellite spending groups may or may not have expended funds related to the candidate or politician on whose page you are reading this disclaimer. Campaign finance data from elections may be incomplete. For elections to federal offices, complete data can be found at the FEC website. Click here for more on federal campaign finance law and here for more on state campaign finance law.
See also
2024 Elections
External links
|
Candidate U.S. House New Jersey District 7 |
Personal |
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 11, 2024
- ↑ For more information on the difference between margins of error and credibility intervals, see explanations from the American Association for Public Opinion Research and Ipsos.
- ↑ Pew Research Center, "5 key things to know about the margin of error in election polls," September 8, 2016
- ↑ OpenSecrets.org, "Outside Spending," accessed December 12, 2021
- ↑ OpenSecrets.org, "Total Outside Spending by Election Cycle, All Groups," accessed December 12, 2021
- ↑ National Review.com, "Why the Media Hate Super PACs," December 12, 2021
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
