Candace Gould is an American politician and businesswoman who served as a member of the

New Mexico Senate The New Mexico State Senate () is the upper house of the New Mexico State Legislature. The Senate consists of 42 members, with each senator representing an equal number of single-member constituent districts across the state. All senatorial distr ...

from 2017 to 2021. Gould represented the 10th district, which includes portions of

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and

Sandoval County, New Mexico Sandoval County () is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 148,834, making it the fourth-most populous county in New Mexico. The county seat is Bernalillo. Sandoval County is part of the ...

Background

The daughter of a military family, Gould moved to

New Mexico New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. It also ...

as a child. She has operated a small business for 15 years and worked the executive director of the Heart Gallery of New Mexico Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports foster children. A Republican, Gould was elected to the

in 2016. She took office in 2017, succeeding John Ryan. In the November 2020 general election, Gould was defeated by Democratic nominee Katy Duhigg.

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