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Who is on the ballot in 87551?

Rio Arriba County, NM

Reported by The Ballot Brief Editorial Team. Updated as public election and video sources change.

Fields below reflect the November 3, 2026 general election ballot as races are certified.

19 races on your November 3 ballot. Jump to:
Governor1U.S. Senate1U.S. House1Statewide7Local2Measures7
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County and municipal contests depend on your exact address — use the address lookup below for the full slate. Every race links to official sources on the New Mexico voter hub.
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87551 sample ballot preview: statewide, congressional and Rio Arriba County races

U.S. House, New Mexico District 3
2 candidates
Federal ▾
Teresa Leger Fernandez portrait
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Teresa Leger Fernandez
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Teresa Leger Fernandez is the Democratic candidate for U.S. House in New Mexico's 3rd District and the sitting representative, the first congresswoman to represent the district, per her campaign site. Before Congress she practiced law focused on tribal sovereignty, served as an acequia commissioner, and was a Clinton White House Fellow and an Obama administration appointee.
Top Priorities
  • government accountability
  • immigration policy
  • protecting New Mexico's land, water and clean energy future
Per the campaign site.
Key voting record
Voted no on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the House 218-214 in July 2025. Opposed
Voted no on the Laken Riley Act, expanding federal detention of certain immigrants charged with theft or violent crimes, which passed the House 263-156 in January 2025. Opposed
Voted no on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2026, which passed the House 231-196 in September 2025. Opposed
Campaign siteFull profile
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Martin Zamora
REP
Biography
Martin Zamora is the Republican nominee for New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District. He is a farmer who has represented District 63 in the New Mexico House of Representatives since 2019, where he serves as ranking member of the House Agriculture, Acequias and Water Resources Committee, per the New Mexico Legislature. No campaign website was found as of September 20, 2026.
Full profile
About this race
Teresa Leger Fernandez (D), Martin Zamora (R) are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District, per the Secretary of State's 2026 General Election candidate list. Party nominees were chosen at the June 2, 2026 primary.
U.S. Senate
2 candidates
Federal ▾
Ben Ray Luján portrait
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Ben Ray Luján
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Ben Ray Luján is New Mexico's incumbent U.S. senator and the Democratic nominee for a second term in 2026. Raised in Nambé, he served six terms in the U.S. House before winning his Senate seat in 2020, and his work centers on good-paying jobs, affordable health care, rural broadband, and protecting New Mexico's land, water, and culture.
Top Priorities
  • Create good-paying jobs for New Mexicans
  • Expand access to quality, affordable health care
  • Protect New Mexico's land, water, and natural resources
Campaign Finance
$7,669,989 raised · top industries: Small-dollar donors under $200 (32% of receipts), Large donors giving $2,000+ (23% of receipts)
Key voting record
Opposed advancing the continuing resolution that ended the fall 2025 shutdown because it did not extend Affordable Care Act health insurance tax credits, saying the deal was one many New Mexicans could not afford. Opposed
Campaign siteFull profile
Larry Marker portrait
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Larry Marker
REP
Biography
Larry Marker is the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in New Mexico, a businessman who previously ran for land commissioner in 2022 and state Senate in 2024. His platform emphasizes border security, expanded energy production, and support for New Mexico agriculture.
Top Priorities
  • Secure the border
  • Expand New Mexico energy production
  • Support farmers, ranchers, and rural New Mexico
Campaign Finance
$32,400 raised · top industries: Large donors giving $2,000+ (78% of receipts)
Campaign siteFull profile
Governor
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
Deb Haaland portrait
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Deb Haaland
DEM
Biography
Deb Haaland is New Mexico's Democratic nominee for governor, a former U.S. secretary of the interior, former U.S. representative, and former state Democratic Party chair. Her running mate for lieutenant governor is Stephanie Garcia Richard, the state's outgoing commissioner of public lands, per the Santa Fe New Mexican. Her campaign emphasizes lowering family costs, supporting working families, clean energy, rural infrastructure, and Native and community representation.
Top Priorities
  • Lower costs for New Mexico families
  • Invest in clean energy, infrastructure, and rural communities
  • Protect public lands, health care, and working-family supports
Campaign siteFull profile
Gregg Hull portrait
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Gregg Hull
REP
Biography
Gregg Hull is New Mexico's Republican nominee for governor and a former three-term mayor of Rio Rancho. His running mate for lieutenant governor is state Senator David Gallegos of Eunice, per the Santa Fe New Mexican. His campaign emphasizes economic development, crime reduction, executive experience, and changing one-party control in state government.
Top Priorities
  • Grow New Mexico's economy and private-sector jobs
  • Reduce crime and improve public safety
  • Bring mayoral executive experience to state government
Campaign siteFull profile
Attorney General
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
Raúl Torrez portrait
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Raúl Torrez
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Raúl Torrez is New Mexico's incumbent attorney general and the Democratic nominee for re-election in 2026. A former federal prosecutor, Justice Department senior advisor, and elected district attorney for the Albuquerque area, his office has emphasized public safety, crimes against children, consumer protection, and civil rights enforcement.
Top Priorities
  • Strengthen public safety and violent-crime prosecution
  • Protect children and vulnerable New Mexicans
  • Enforce consumer protection and civil rights laws
Campaign siteFull profile
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Sam Kane
REP
Biography
Sam Kane is running for New Mexico Attorney General. He worked as a math teacher in Miami while attending law school at night, and later clerked for a federal judge in Las Cruces, New Mexico, per his campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Bring private-practice legal experience to the office
  • Focus the office on crime and public safety
  • Provide a check on one-party control of state government
Campaign siteFull profile
Secretary of State
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
Amanda López Askin portrait
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Amanda López Askin
DEM
Biography
Amanda López Askin is the Democratic nominee for New Mexico secretary of state, the Doña Ana County clerk and a former New Mexico State University regent. With incumbent Maggie Toulouse Oliver term-limited, her campaign emphasizes her county-level experience keeping elections running smoothly and securely.
Top Priorities
  • Keep New Mexico elections secure and smooth-running
  • Bring county clerk experience to statewide election administration
  • Protect voter access across New Mexico
Campaign siteFull profile
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Ramona Goolsby
REP
Biography
Ramona Goolsby is the Republican nominee for New Mexico secretary of state, a retired nurse practitioner, Army veteran, and soil and water conservation board member. Her campaign emphasizes election integrity, enforcement of campaign finance statutes, and transparency in state government.
Top Priorities
  • Protect election integrity
  • Enforce election finance statutes
  • Bring transparency and accountability to state government
Campaign siteFull profile
Treasurer
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
Laura Montoya portrait
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Laura Montoya
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Laura Montoya is New Mexico's incumbent state treasurer and the Democratic nominee for re-election in 2026. The first Latina elected to the office, she previously served two terms as Sandoval County treasurer, and her campaign emphasizes serving with integrity, protecting public funds, and financial opportunity for all New Mexicans.
Top Priorities
  • Manage state funds with integrity and transparency
  • Expand financial opportunity and literacy for New Mexicans
  • Protect taxpayer dollars through prudent investment
Campaign siteFull profile
James Ellison portrait
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James Ellison
REP
Biography
James Ellison is the Republican nominee for New Mexico state treasurer, a chartered financial analyst, former Public Regulation Commission member, and former utility analyst. His campaign emphasizes responsible stewardship of the roughly $20 billion in state funds the treasurer manages directly.
Top Priorities
  • Apply CFA-level investment discipline to state funds
  • Protect taxpayer dollars through responsible stewardship
  • Bring regulatory and analytical experience to the treasury
Campaign siteFull profile
Auditor
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
Joseph Maestas portrait
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Joseph Maestas
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Joseph Maestas is New Mexico's incumbent state auditor and the Democratic nominee for re-election in 2026. An engineer and former mayor of Española and Santa Fe city councilor, his office audits government agencies statewide to protect public funds and root out fraud, waste, and abuse.
Top Priorities
  • Root out fraud, waste, and abuse of public funds
  • Hold government agencies financially accountable
  • Bring engineering rigor to public oversight
Campaign siteFull profile
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Joshua James Lawrence
REP
Biography
Joshua James Lawrence is the Republican nominee for New Mexico state auditor, a film-industry worker and 2022 sheriff candidate. He offers a Republican alternative for the state's financial-oversight office.
Top Priorities
  • Provide independent scrutiny of state spending
  • Bring an outsider's perspective to government oversight
  • Increase transparency in public finances
Campaign siteFull profile
Commissioner of Public Lands
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Michael Jack Perry
REP
Biography
Michael Jack Perry is the Republican nominee for New Mexico commissioner of public lands, vice chair of the Chaves County Commission and a former assistant land commissioner who worked in the State Land Office's field division from 2016 to 2019, per the Santa Fe New Mexican. A Roswell High School graduate and retired game warden, his campaign has emphasized forest-management work to reduce wildfire and flood risk, per the same source. No campaign website was found as of September 18, 2026.
Full profile
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Juan De Jesus Sanchez, III
DEM
Biography
Juan De Jesus Sanchez, III is the Democratic nominee for New Mexico commissioner of public lands, a farmer and conservation advocate whose family's ranch near Belen has relied on a State Trust Land grazing lease, per his campaign site. He previously worked as a natural resources specialist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and as political director for U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich, per Source New Mexico.
Top Priorities
  • Protect New Mexico's public lands
  • Strengthen rural economies
  • Ensure land and water resources are stewarded responsibly
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
Judge of The Court of Appeals Position 1
1 candidate
Statewide ▾
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Kris Houghton
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Kristopher Nicolas Houghton was appointed to the New Mexico Court of Appeals in August 2025 by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, per his campaign site. He previously served in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Albuquerque, including as Chief of the Criminal Division, and as a Department of Justice judicial attache in Bogota, Colombia, from 2012 to 2025, and is a graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Law, per his campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
New Mexico Judicial Retention
3 candidates
Statewide ▾
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C. Shannon Bacon
INCUMBENT
Biography
Bacon previously served as a district court judge on the Second Judicial District Court and as its Presiding Civil Judge, and before that was a partner at Sutin, Thayer and Brown, P.A., per the court's official biography. She was appointed to the Supreme Court in January 2019 and took the oath of office on February 4, 2019, and won election to the seat in 2020.
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David K. Thomson
INCUMBENT
Biography
Thomson earned his law degree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, clerked for a U.S. District Judge, worked as a litigation attorney and Deputy Attorney General in the New Mexico Attorney General's Office, and served as a state trial judge in the First Judicial District from 2015, per the court's official biography. He took the oath of office as a Supreme Court justice on February 4, 2019, and won election to the seat in 2020.
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J. Miles Hanisee
INCUMBENT
Biography
Hanisee earned his law degree from Pepperdine University School of Law, clerked for two Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals judges, and worked as an Assistant United States Attorney from 1996 to 2007 before entering private practice, per the court's official biography. Governor Susana Martinez appointed him to the Court of Appeals in 2011, and voters retained him in 2018.
About this race
Retention vote: each judge appears alone with a yes-or-no question on keeping the seat.

Countywide races in Rio Arriba County

ZIP 87551 sits in Rio Arriba County, per the Census crosswalk. These seats are voted countywide; district seats, city races and school boards need a street address. All Rio Arriba County races (5).

New Mexico 1st Judicial District Court, Division IV
1 candidate
County ▾
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Denise Marie Thomas
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Denise Marie Thomas currently serves as the Division IV judge of the 1st Judicial District Court, covering Santa Fe County, per the court's own website. No campaign website was found as of September 25, 2026.
Full profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Denise Marie Thomas is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot for this seat on the First Judicial District, per the New Mexico Secretary of State's 2026 general election candidate list. Denise Marie Thomas is the sitting judge in this division, per https://firstdistrict.nmcourts.gov/about-this-district/judges/. Every voter in Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, and Santa Fe counties elects this seat, since New Mexico district judges are elected district-wide across the 1st Judicial District (the New Mexico Courts' Courts by District page). New Mexico district judges run in a partisan election the first time they seek the seat, then stand later on a separate nonpartisan retention question; this is that partisan race.
New Mexico 1st Judicial District Court, Division VIII
1 candidate
County ▾
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Anastasia Rose Martin
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Anastasia Rose Martin currently serves as the Division VIII judge of the 1st Judicial District Court, covering Santa Fe County, per the court's own website. No campaign website was found as of September 25, 2026.
Full profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Anastasia Rose Martin is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot for this seat on the First Judicial District, per the New Mexico Secretary of State's 2026 general election candidate list. Anastasia Rose Martin is the sitting judge in this division, per https://firstdistrict.nmcourts.gov/about-this-district/judges/. Every voter in Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, and Santa Fe counties elects this seat, since New Mexico district judges are elected district-wide across the 1st Judicial District (the New Mexico Courts' Courts by District page). New Mexico district judges run in a partisan election the first time they seek the seat, then stand later on a separate nonpartisan retention question; this is that partisan race.

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