United States House elections in New Mexico, 2022 (June 7 Democratic primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in New Mexico were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected three candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's three U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for June 7, 2022. The filing deadline was March 24, 2022.
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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 Democratic primaries for the U.S. House. For more in-depth information on the state's Republican primaries and the general election, see the following pages:
- United States House elections in New Mexico, 2022 (June 7 Republican primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico, 2022
Candidates and election results
District 1
Democratic primary candidates
- Melanie Ann Stansbury (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
District 2
Democratic primary candidates
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District 3
Democratic primary candidates
- Teresa Leger Fernandez (Incumbent) ✔
Primary election competitiveness
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.
See also
- United States House elections in New Mexico, 2022 (June 7 Republican primaries)
- United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2022
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022
Footnotes
- ↑ New Mexico Legislature, "2025 Regular Session - SB 16," accessed June 20, 2025
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "State Primary Election Types," accessed August 22, 2024
- ↑ Ballotpedia research conducted December 26, 2013, through January 3, 2014, researching and analyzing various state websites and codes.
- ↑ New Mexico Secretary of State, "FAQs for Primary & General Election Candidacy," accessed August 22, 2024
