Live updates: Election 2024 in New Mexico coverage and results

By KOB

For results on each race and ballot measure in New Mexico, click/tap here for all election results.

Update: Wednesday morning

New Mexico’s three Democratic U.S. House incumbents will continue their time in Washington, D.C.

With 99% of precincts reporting, Melanie Stansbury earned 56% of the vote, ahead of Republican challenger Steve Jones, who earned 44%. Stansbury is set to serve her third term in New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District.

With 98% of precincts reporting in each of the other two congressional districts, here is what the numbers look like:

New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District

  • Gabe Vasquez (D): 52%
  • Yvette Herrell (R): 48%

New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District

  • Teresa Leger Fernandez (D): 56%
  • Sharon Clahchischilliage (R): 124,854 votes 44%

With this, Vasquez will serve a second term in the U.S. House and Leger Fernandez will serve a third term.

Overnight, AP declared Donald Trump the winner of the 2024 presidential race. Trump is set to become the first person since Grover Cleveland to win non-consecutive presidential terms.

Update: Tuesday at 9:42 p.m.

AP has named Kamala Harris as the projected winner for New Mexico.

Update: Tuesday at 8:56 p.m.

Democrat Martin Heinrich was named the projected winner of the U.S. Senate seat, according to AP. This is his third term. He was voted in during the 2012 election and won reelection in 2018.

Update: Tuesday at 7 p.m.

Polls are closed across the state of New Mexico. We are live with election results as they come in and analysis throughout the night here on our live page.

Click/tap here to see the results of races and ballot measures from across the state. You can see interactive county-by-county election results by clicking/tapping here.

Update: Tuesday at 2:30 p.m.

As of the latest update from the New Mexico Office of the Secretary of State, at 1 p.m., 793,497 ballots have been cast in our state. Here is a breakdown by party:

  • Democrat: 362,481
  • Republican: 287,687
  • Declined to state a party: 132,318
  • Libertarian: 6,998
  • Other: 4,013

According to the Secretary of State’s office, there were 1,382,761 registered voters. Turnout as of 1 p.m. has been around 57.38%.

Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday in New Mexico as Election Day is here for the 2024 general election.

663,874 people cast a ballot ahead of Election Day, which is down from 2020 when 785,789 people cast ballot before Election Day.

If you haven’t cast your vote, make sure you get in line before 7 p.m. Although polls close at 7 p.m., they will not turn you away if you are in line by that time.

If you have a mail-in ballot, it is too late to put that in the mailbox. However, you can drop that off at a polling site. You can also drop off an absentee ballot at a polling site.

We will be providing updates on this page as results start coming in for races here in New Mexico, including these key races:

Four state constitutional amendments are also on the ballot. Two amendments are about tax exemptions for military veterans. One amendment concerns if county commissioners should be allowed to set their own salaries and the salaries of other county officials. The other amendment concerns a possible change to the commission in charge of finding new state Supreme Court justices.

For results on each race and ballot measure in New Mexico, click/tap here for all election results.