Democrat Melanie Stansbury has won election to Congress for New Mexico to fill a vacant seat previously held by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.
Biden asks Vice President Kamala Harris to lead his administration’s efforts to protect voting rights as many states work to add restrictions.The district’s voters have heavily favored Democratic candidates in recent years, favoring Joe Biden by 23 percentage points in 2020 and reelecting Haaland by a 16-point margin as voter participation reached an all-time high.
Tuesday’s election is among a handful of races to fill vacancies in Congress ahead of the midterm. Democrats held a 219-211 majority in Congress going into Tuesday’s vote in New Mexico. New Mexico’s 1st District seat has been a steppingstone to higher office for Republican and Democratic politicians, including late Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan Jr., former Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.
The district relies heavily on federal military and research funding as home to Kirtland Air Force Base and Sandia National Laboratories. President Trump in 2020 fell flat with Albuquerque-area voters after he sent federal agents to bolster local law enforcement efforts.Republicans last year flipped the state’s sprawling 2nd Congressional District in southern New Mexico as Yvette Herrell of Alamogordo ousted incumbent Xochitl Torres Small.
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