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New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District election, 2022 (June 7 Republican primary)

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New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District
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Election details
Filing deadline: March 24, 2022
Primary: June 7, 2022
General: November 8, 2022
How to vote
Poll times: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Voting in New Mexico
Race ratings
Cook Partisan Voter Index (2022): D+1
Cook Political Report: Toss-up
Inside Elections: Toss-up
Sabato's Crystal Ball: Lean Republican
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U.S. Senate battlegrounds
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Federal and state primary competitiveness
Ballotpedia's Election Analysis Hub, 2022
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A Republican Party primary took place on June 7, 2022, in New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District to determine which Republican candidate would run in the district's general election on November 8, 2022.

Incumbent Yvette Herrell advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House New Mexico District 2.

Candidate filing deadline Primary election General election
March 24, 2022
June 7, 2022
November 8, 2022


A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. New Mexico utilizes a semi-closed primary process; participation in each party's primary is limited to registered party members and unaffiliated voters.[1][2][3][4]

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

This page focuses on New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District Republican primary. For more in-depth information on the district's Democratic primary and the general election, see the following pages:

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Candidates and election results

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House New Mexico District 2

Incumbent Yvette Herrell advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House New Mexico District 2 on June 7, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Yvette Herrell
Yvette Herrell
 
100.0
 
28,623

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 28,623
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Ballot access requirements

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in New Mexico in the 2022 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in New Mexico, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2022
State Office Party Signatures required Filing fee Filing deadline Source
New Mexico U.S. House Ballot-qualified party 2% of votes cast for all the party's gubernatorial candidates in the last primary election (within the district) N/A 3/8/2022 Source
New Mexico U.S. House Unaffiliated 3% of all votes cast for governor in the last election (within the district) N/A 6/30/2022 Source

District analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

  • District map - A map of the district before and after redistricting.
  • Effect of redistricting - How districts in the state changed as a result of redistricting following the 2020 census.
  • Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2022 U.S. House elections in the state.
  • Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
  • Demographics - Information about the state's demographics and how they compare to the country as a whole.
  • State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.

District map

Below was the map in use at the time of the election, enacted as part of the 2020 redistricting cycle, compared to the map in place before the election.

New Mexico District 2
until January 2, 2023

Click a district to compare boundaries.

New Mexico District 2
starting January 3, 2023

Click a district to compare boundaries.


Effect of redistricting

See also: Redistricting in New Mexico after the 2020 census

The table below details the results of the 2020 presidential election in each district at the time of the 2022 election and its political predecessor district.[5] This data was compiled by Daily Kos Elections.[6]

2020 presidential results by Congressional district, New Mexico
District 2022 district Political predecessor district
Joe Biden Democratic Party Donald Trump Republican Party Joe Biden Democratic Party Donald Trump Republican Party
New Mexico's 1st 55.9% 41.5% 60.2% 37.4%
New Mexico's 2nd 51.9% 46.1% 43.1% 54.9%
New Mexico's 3rd 54.4% 43.6% 57.7% 40.1%

Competitiveness

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2022

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in New Mexico.

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in New Mexico in 2022. Information below was calculated on May 20, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Eight candidates filed to run for New Mexico’s three U.S. House districts, including four Democrats and four Republicans. That’s 2.67 candidates per district, less than the 6.3 candidates per district in 2020 and the five in 2018.

This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census. New Mexico was apportioned three districts, the same number it was apportioned after the 2010 census. The eight candidates who filed to run this year were the fewest candidates running for New Mexico's U.S. House seats since 2016, when seven candidates filed.

All three incumbents filed to run for re-election, meaning there were no open seats. There were two contested primaries this year, the fewest since 2016, when there was one contested primary.

Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all three districts, so no seats were guaranteed to either party. No incumbents faced primary challengers this year. The last year an incumbent was in a contested primary was 2014, when then-incumbent Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (D) and Robert Blanch ran in the 3rd Congressional District.


Presidential elections

Partisan Voter Index

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

Heading into the 2022 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+1. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 1 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made New Mexico's 2nd the 205th most Democratic district nationally.[7]

2020 presidential election results

The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.

2020 presidential results in New Mexico's 2nd based on 2022 district lines
Joe Biden Democratic Party Donald Trump Republican Party
51.9% 46.1%

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in New Mexico, 2020

New Mexico presidential election results (1900-2020)

  • 16 Democratic wins
  • 12 Republican wins
Year 1900 1904 1908 1912 1916 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1940 1944 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020
Winning Party N/A N/A N/A D D R R R D D D D D R R D D R R R R R R D D D R D D D D


Demographics

The table below details demographic data in New Mexico and compares it to the broader United States as of 2019.

Demographic Data for New Mexico
New Mexico United States
Population 2,117,522 331,449,281
Land area (sq mi) 121,312 3,531,905
Race and ethnicity**
White 70% 70.4%
Black/African American 2.1% 12.6%
Asian 1.6% 5.6%
Native American 9.3% 0.8%
Pacific Islander 0.1% 0.2%
Other (single race) 8.8% 5.1%
Multiple 8.1% 5.2%
Hispanic/Latino 49.2% 18.2%
Education
High school graduation rate 86.5% 88.5%
College graduation rate 28.1% 32.9%
Income
Median household income $51,243 $64,994
Persons below poverty level 18.6% 12.8%
Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2020). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2015-2020).
**Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.


State party control

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of New Mexico's congressional delegation as of November 2022.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from New Mexico, November 2022
Party U.S. Senate U.S. House Total
Democratic 2 2 4
Republican 0 1 1
Independent 0 0 0
Vacancies 0 0 0
Total 2 3 5

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in New Mexico's top four state executive offices as of November 2022.

State executive officials in New Mexico, November 2022
Office Officeholder
Governor Democratic Party Michelle Lujan Grisham
Lieutenant Governor Democratic Party Howie Morales
Secretary of State Democratic Party Maggie Toulouse Oliver
Attorney General Democratic Party Hector Balderas

State legislature

The tables below highlight the partisan composition of the New Mexico State Legislature as of November 2022.

New Mexico State Senate

Party As of November 2022
     Democratic Party 26
     Republican Party 15
     Independent 0
     Vacancies 1
Total 42

New Mexico House of Representatives

Party As of November 2022
     Democratic Party 45
     Republican Party 24
     Independent 1
     Vacancies 0
Total 70

Trifecta control

As of November 2022, New Mexico was a Democratic trifecta, with majorities in both chambers of the state legislature and control of the governorship. The table below displays the historical trifecta status of the state.

New Mexico Party Control: 1992-2022
Fifteen years of Democratic trifectas  •  No Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Governor D D D R R R R R R R R D D D D D D D D R R R R R R R R D D D D
Senate D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
House D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D R R D D D D D D

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ New Mexico Legislature, "2025 Regular Session - SB 16," accessed June 20, 2025
  2. ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "State Primary Election Types," accessed August 22, 2024
  3. ↑ Ballotpedia research conducted December 26, 2013, through January 3, 2014, researching and analyzing various state websites and codes.
  4. ↑ New Mexico Secretary of State, "FAQs for Primary & General Election Candidacy," accessed August 22, 2024
  5. ↑ Political predecessor districts are determined primarily based on incumbents and where each chose to seek re-election.
  6. ↑ Daily Kos Elections, "Daily Kos Elections 2020 presidential results by congressional district (old CDs vs. new CDs)," accessed May 12, 2022
  7. ↑ Cook Political Report, "The 2022 Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠)," accessed February 6, 2023


New Mexico's current delegation to the United States Congress
Senators
Martin Heinrich (D)
Ben Luján (D)
Representatives
District 1
District 2
District 3
Democratic Party (5)


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