Ben Ray Lujan
American politician (born 1972)
Illustration by Vugol.me, adapted from Official U.S. Congress portrait · Public domain
Races
- 2026 · U.S. Senate, NM · General · Democratic · on the ballot · incumbent
- 2020 · U.S. Senate, NM · General · Democratic · won · 474,483 votes (51.7%) · source
- 2018 · U.S. House, NM-03 · General · Democratic · won · 155,201 votes (63.4%) · source
Background
Ben Ray Luján is an American politician serving since 2021 as the junior United States senator from New Mexico.
More
From 2009 to 2021, he represented New Mexico's 3rd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives; he served as assistant speaker from 2019 to 2021. Luján is a self-described progressive Democrat.
Campaign finance
$8,277,478total raised (2026 cycle)
$3,960,048total spent (2026 cycle)
$4,396,754cash on hand (2026 cycle)
As of 2026-06-30 · Source: FEC
Website and social
Sources
- Official portrait — public-domain congressional image set (unitedstates project)
- Background — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-27 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Ray_Luj%C3%A1n
- Official social accounts — congress-legislators dataset (unitedstates project)
- Roster — FEC filing — https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S0NM00058/
- photo_headshot — https://www.lujan.senate.gov
- photo_full_body — https://www.lujan.senate.gov/about/
- photo_action — https://www.lujan.senate.gov/about/issues/
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