Daniel Ivey-Soto

Daniel A. Ivey-Soto is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the New Mexico Senate, representing District 15 from 2013 to 2024.

Political career

1996: When House District 18 Representative Cisco McSorley ran for the New Mexico Senate, Ivey-Soto ran in the four-way June 4, 1996 Democratic Primary but lost to Gail Beam; Beam went on to win the three-way November 5, 1996 General election.
2012: Incumbent District 15 Democratic Senator Tim Eichenberg was unopposed for the June 5, 2012 Democratic Primary; when Senator Eichenberg withdrew, Ivey-Soto replaced him on the November 6, 2012 General election ballot, winning with 10,927 votes against Republican nominee H. Diane Snyder.

In 2022, Ivey-Soto sought to remove automatic voter registration from a voting rights bill that Democratic New Mexico legislators were working on. Ivey-Soto argued that it was intrusive to automatically register voters. Ivey-Soto was also opposed to an Election Day holiday.
Ivey-Soto was defeated in the primary race in June 2024. Earlier in 2024 he had been censured by the state Democratic Party which also severed ties with him over sexual harassment and assault allegations.