New Mexico 2005 Off Year Elections

The Green Papers: New Mexico 2005 Off Year Elections

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New Mexico
Elections for Statewide offices and Congress

Electoral Votes:	5	(0.93% of 538)
Governor:	1
Senators:	2	(Electoral Classes 1 and 2)
2002-2010 Representatives:	3	(0.69% of 435)
2000 Census:	1,823,821	(0.65% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):	1,263,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):	972,895
Capital:	Santa Fe

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New Mexico State and Local Government



U.S. Senate 6 year term. No Term Limit. 109^th Senate Senate Electoral Classes

Class 1	Democratic	Senator Jeff Bingaman • First elected: 1982; re-elected: 1988, 1994, 2000 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Class 2	Republican	Senator Pete V. Domenici • First elected: 1972; re-elected: 1978, 1984, 1990, 1996, 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, All Governors

	Democratic	Governor Bill Richardson • First elected: 2002 • Chair up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006 • The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.
	No Party Affiliation	(Christina M. Vahlsing - pending) • added 27 May 2003

Lieutenant Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. Elected on a ticket with (but nominated separately from) the Governor

	Democratic	Lieutenant Governor Diane Denish • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

109^th U.S. House of Representatives 2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 109^th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition): 2 Republican (2 Undetermined); 1 Democratic (1 Undetermined)

CD 1	Republican	Congressman Heather A. Wilson • First elected: 23 June 1998 in Special Election re: death of Congressman Stephen Schiff, 25 March 1998 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 2	Republican	Congressman Steve Pearce • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 3	Democratic	Congressman Tom Udall • First elected: 1998 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Secretary of State 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

	Democratic	Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron • First elected: 1986 (served until 1990); elected 1998; re-elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Attorney General 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

	Democratic	Attorney General Patricia Madrid • First elected: 1998; re-elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Treasurer 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

	Democratic	Treasurer Robert E. Vigil • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Auditor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

	Democratic	Auditor Domingo P. Martinez • First elected: 1998; re-elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Commissioner of Public Lands 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

	Republican	Public Lands Commissioner Patrick H. Lyons • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Political Parties Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.

	• Constitution
	• Democratic
	• Green
	• No Party Affiliation
	• Reform
	• Republican