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New Mexico's 3rd congressional district

New Mexico's 3rd congressional district (Spanish: 3.º distrito congresional de Nuevo México) is a congressional district is the U.S state of New Mexico. The district is in the north part of the state. Many Native Americans live in the district and most of the Navajo Nation is also in the district.[2] The people who live in the district elect a person to represent the district in the United States House of Representatives. The current Representative is Democrat Teresa Leger Fernandez.

New Mexico's 3rd congressional district
Representative
  Teresa Leger Fernandez
D–Santa Fe
Distribution
  • 64.70% urban
  • 35.30% rural
Population (2019)699,985
Median income$53,357
Ethnicity
Cook PVID+8[1]

Election history

Year Office Result
2000 President Gore 52 – 43%
2004 President Kerry 54 – 45%
2008 President Obama 61 – 38%
2012 President Obama 57 – 39%
2016 President Clinton 52 – 37%
2018 Senator Heinrich 57 – 27%
2018 Governor Lujan Grisham 61 – 39%
2020 President Biden 58 – 40%

1982

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1982 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 3[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Bill Richardson 84,669 64.49
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Marjorie Bell Chambers 46,466 35.39
Write-in 158 0.12
Total votes 131,293 100.00

1984

1984 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 3[4]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Bill Richardson (Incumbent) 100,470 60.81
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Louis H. Gallegos 62,351 37.74
Libertarian Shirley Machocky Jones 2,388 1.45
Total votes 165,209 100.00
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold

1986

1986 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 3[5]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Bill Richardson (Incumbent) 95,760 71.30
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican David F. Cargo 38,552 28.70
Total votes 134,312 100.00
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold

1988

1988 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 3[6]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Bill Richardson (Incumbent) 124,938 73.11
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Cecilia M. Salazar 45,954 26.89
Total votes 170,892 100.00
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold

1990

1990 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 3[7]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Bill Richardson (Incumbent) 104,225 74.46
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Phil T. Archuletta 35,751 25.54
Total votes 139,976 100.00
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold

1992

1992 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 3[8]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Bill Richardson (Incumbent) 122,850 67.42
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican F. Gregg Bemis Jr. 54,569 29.95
Libertarian Ed Nagel 4,798 2.63
Total votes 182,217 100.00
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold

1994

1994 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 3[9]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Bill Richardson (Incumbent) 99,900 63.59
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican F. Gregg Bemis Jr. 53,515 34.06
Libertarian Ed Nagel 3,697 2.35
Total votes 157,112 100.00
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold

1996

1996 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 3[10]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Bill Richardson (Incumbent) 124,594 67.25
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Bill Redmond 56,580 30.54
Libertarian Ed Nagel 4,097 2.21
Total votes 185,271 100.00
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold

1997 (Special)

1997 New Mexico's 3rd congressional district special election[11]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Bill Redmond 43,559 42.75
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Eric P. Serna 40,542 39.79
Green Carol Miller 17,101 16.78
Libertarian Ed Nagel 393 0.39
style="background-color: Template:Reform Party of the United States of America/meta/color; width: 2px;" | [[Reform Party of the United States of America|Template:Reform Party of the United States of America/meta/shortname]] Daniel Pearlman 304 0.30
Total votes 101,899 100.00
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | Republican gain from [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]]

1998

1998 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 3[12]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Tom Udall 91,248 53.16
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Bill Redmond (Incumbent) 74,266 43.27
Green Carol Miller 6,103 3.56
Write-in 32 0.01
Total votes 171,649 100.00
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] gain from Republican

2000

2000 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 3[13]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Tom Udall (Incumbent) 135,040 67.18
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Lisa L. Lutz 65,979 32.82
Total votes 201,019 100.00
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold

2002

2002 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 3[14]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Tom Udall (Incumbent) 122,921 100.00
Total votes 122,921 100.00
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold

2004

2004 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 3[15]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Tom Udall (Incumbent) 175,269 68.68
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Gregory M. Tucker 79,935 31.32
Total votes 255,204 100.00
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold

2006

2006 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 3[16]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Tom Udall (Incumbent) 144,880 74.64
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Ronald M. Dolin 49,219 25.36
Total votes 194,099 100.00
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold

2008

2008 Democratic Primary Congressional Election, District 3[17]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Ben Ray Luján 26,667 41.58
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Don Wiviott 16,314 25.44
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Benny J. Shendo Jr. 10,113 15.77
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Harry Montoya 7,205 11.23
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Jon Adams 1,993 3.11
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Rudy Martin 1,838 2.87
2008 Republican Primary Congressional Election, District 3[17]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Daniel K. East 14,767 53.89
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Marco Gonzales 12,634 46.11
2008 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 3[18]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Ben Ray Luján 161,292 56.74
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Daniel K. East 86,618 30.47
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Independent Carol Miller 36,348 12.79
Total votes 284,258 100.00
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold

2010

2010 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 3[19]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Ben Ray Luján (Incumbent) 120,057 56.99
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Thomas E. Mullins 90,621 43.01
Total votes 210,678 100.00
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold

2012

2012 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 3[20]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Ben Ray Luján (Incumbent) 167,103 63.12
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Jefferson L. Byrd 97,616 36.88
Total votes 264,719 100.00
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold

2014

2014 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 3[21]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Ben Ray Luján (Incumbent) 113,249 61.52
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Jefferson Byrd 70,775 38.45
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Thomas Hook (Write-In) 52 0.03
Total votes 184,076 100.00
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold

2016

2016 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 3[22]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Ben Ray Luján (Incumbent) 170,612 62.42
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Michael H. Romero 102,730 37.58
Total votes 273,342 100.00
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold

2018

2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 3
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Ben Ray Luján (Incumbent) 155,201 63.04
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Jerald S. McFall 76,427 31.02
Libertarian Christopher Manning 13,265 5.4
Total votes 244,893 100.00
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold

2020

2020 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico: District 3
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Teresa Leger Fernandez 186,282 58.07
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Alexis Johnson 131,166 41.03
Total votes 317,448 100.00
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold

New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District Media

References

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ "Pueblos, Tribes & Nations". www.newmexico.org. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
  3. ↑ "1982 Election Results" (PDF).
  4. ↑ "1984 Election Results" (PDF).
  5. ↑ "1986 Election Results" (PDF).
  6. ↑ "1988 Election Results" (PDF).
  7. ↑ "1990 Election Results" (PDF).
  8. ↑ "1992 Election Results" (PDF).
  9. ↑ "1994 Election Results" (PDF).
  10. ↑ "1996 Election Results" (PDF).
  11. ↑ Oswald, Mark (August 1997). "Greens shake-Up New Mexico" (PDF). Cornel.edu. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  12. ↑ "1998 Election Results" (PDF).
  13. ↑ "2000 Election Results" (PDF).
  14. ↑ "2002 Election Results" (PDF).
  15. ↑ "2004 Election Results" (PDF).
  16. ↑ "2006 Election Results" (PDF).
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 "2008 Primary Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 22, 2016. Retrieved May 11, 2011.
  18. ↑ "2008 Election Results" (PDF).
  19. ↑ "2010 Election Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2011. Retrieved May 11, 2011.
  20. ↑ "Statewide Results". New Mexico Secretary of State. Archived from the original on December 27, 2017.
  21. ↑ "Official Results General Election - November 4, 2014". New Mexico Secretary of State. November 4, 2014. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
  22. ↑ "Election Night Results - November 8, 2016". New Mexico Secretary of State. November 8, 2016. Retrieved December 7, 2016.


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