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2026 candidates we're tracking in NY-18
Pat Ryan
Top priorities
From the campaign site
- Freedom for All
- Ensuring Safety for All
- Clean Air, Soil, and Water for All
About Pat Ryan
Ryan is a combat veteran, small business founder, and former Ulster County Executive who served in the U.S. Army as an intelligence officer with two deployments to Iraq, per the campaign site. The campaign site says Ryan founded a technology company with more than 150 employees and led Ulster County through the pandemic while expanding affordable housing and mental health services, per the campaign site.
Jackie Mary Auringer
Top priorities
From the campaign site
- Reducing taxes, energy costs and health care costs for Hudson Valley households and businesses
- Supporting well-paying jobs, business growth and career-focused education
- Ethics and transparency in Congress
About Jackie Mary Auringer
Auringer works in her family's construction business as a project manager and managerial accountant, and also works in marketing and branding, per the campaign site. She holds a marketing degree from the Lutgert College of Business and has been involved in voter outreach and grassroots organizing, per the campaign site.
About this race
New York's 18th Congressional District elects one member of the U.S. House of Representatives to a two-year term. Every House seat in the country is on the ballot in 2026. The New York primary is Tuesday, June 23, 2026, and the general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026.