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New Mexico's 2nd congressional district

New Mexico's 2nd congressional district (Spanish: 2.º distrito congresional de Nuevo México) is a congressional district in the state of New Mexico. The district is the 5th largest congressional district in the United States of America and the largest district that is not the entire state. The district is currently represented by Republican Yvette Herrell. Yvette Herrell defeated the incumbent Democrate Xochitl Torres Small in the 2020 United States House of Representatives elections. The district was one of the 15 districts who used to have a Democrat representative but now a Republican representative in the 2020 elections.

New Mexico's 2nd congressional district
Representative
  Yvette Herrell
R–Alamogordo
Distribution
  • 70.82% urban
  • 29.18% rural
Population (2019)705,615
Median income$46,817[1]
Ethnicity
Cook PVIR+6[2]

Election history

Year Office Result
2000 President Bush 54 - 43%
2004 President Bush 58 - 41%
2008 President McCain 50 - 49%
2012 President Romney 52 - 45%
2016 President Trump 50 - 40%
2018 Senate Heinrich 46 - 40%
2018 Governor Pearce 53 - 47%
2020 President Trump 55 - 43%
2000 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 2[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Joe Skeen (Incumbent) 100,742 58.11
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Michael A. Montoya 72,614 41.89
Total votes 173,356 100.0
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | Republican hold
2002 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 2[4]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Steve Pearce 79,631 56.23
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] John Arthur Smith 61,916 43.72
Green George L. Dewey (as a write-in) 43 0.03
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Padraig M. Lynch (as a write-in) 39 0.02
Total votes 141,629 100.0
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | Republican hold
2004 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 2[5]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Steve Pearce (Incumbent) 130,498 60.20
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Gary King 86,292 39.80
Total votes 216,790 100.0
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | Republican hold
2006 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 2[6]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Steve Pearce (Incumbent) 92,620 59.42
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Albert Kissling 63,119 40.49
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] C. Dean Burk (as a write-in) 135 0.09
Total votes 155,874 100.0
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | Republican hold
2008 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 2[7]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Harry Teague 129,572 55.96
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Edward R. Tinsley 101,980 44.04
Total votes 231,552 100.0
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] gain from Republican
2010 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 2[8]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Steve Pearce 94,053 55.40
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Harry Teague (Incumbent) 75,709 44.60
Total votes 169,762 100.0
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | Republican gain from [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]]
2012 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 2[9]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Steve Pearce 133,180 59.06
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Evelyn Madrid Erhard 92,162 40.87
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Independent Jack A. McGrann (Write-In) 173 0.8
Total votes 225,515 100.0
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | Republican hold
2014 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 2[10]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Steve Pearce 95,209 64.43
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Rocky Lara 52,499 35.52
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Jack McGrann (Write-In) 69 0.05
Total votes 147,777 100
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | Republican hold
2016 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 2[11]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Steve Pearce (Incumbent) 143,514 62.72
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Merrie Lee Soules 85,232 37.25
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Jack A McGrann (write in) 70 0.03
Total votes 228,816 100
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | Republican hold
2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 2[12]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Xochitl Torres Small 101,489 50.90
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Yvette Herrell 97,767 49.10
Total votes 199,256 100.0
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] gain from Republican
New Mexico's 2nd congressional district election, 2020
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Yvette Herrell 142,169 53.75
Democrat Xochitl Torres Small (incumbent) 122,314 46.25
Total votes 264,483 100.0
Republican gain from Democratic

New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District Media

  • New Mexico's 2nd congressional district (since 2023)

  • Ed Foreman, U.S. Representative from New Mexico & Texas

  • Harold L. Runnels, U.S. Representative from New Mexico

  • JoeSkeen

  • Steve Pearce, member of the United States House of Representatives.

  • NM

  • Harry Teague large official portrait

  • Steve Pearce, Official Portrait, 112th Congress (cropped)

  • New Mexico US Congressional District 2 (since 2013)

  • Xochitl Torres Small, official portrait, 116th Congress

References

  1. ↑ Center for New Media & Promotion (CNMP), US Census Bureau. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov.
  2. ↑ "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  3. ↑ "2000 Election Results" (PDF).
  4. ↑ "2002 Election Results" (PDF).
  5. ↑ "2004 Election Results" (PDF).
  6. ↑ "2006 Election Results" (PDF).
  7. ↑ "2008 Election Results" (PDF).
  8. ↑ "2010 Election Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2011. Retrieved May 11, 2011.
  9. ↑ "Statewide Results". New Mexico Secretary of State. Archived from the original on December 27, 2017.
  10. ↑ "Official Results General Election - November 4, 2014". New Mexico Secretary of State. November 4, 2014. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Election Night Results - November 8, 2016". New Mexico Secretary of State. November 8, 2016. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  12. ↑ "Election Night Results - November 6, 2018". New Mexico Secretary of State. November 6, 2018. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
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