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New Mexico Senate

The New Mexico Senate (Spanish: Senado de Nuevo México) is the upper house of the New Mexico State Legislature. The Senate consists of 42 members, with each senator representing an equal number of single-member constituent districts across the state. All senatorial districts are divided to contain a population on average of 43,300 state residents. Members of the Senate are elected to four-year terms without term limits.

The Senate convenes at the New Mexico State Capitol building in Santa Fe.

Composition

The makeup of the Senate for sessions from 2009–present is:

  1. ^ Jacob Candelaria (District 26) left the Democratic Party and registered as an Independent.[1]
  2. ^ Independent Jacob Candelaria (District 26) resigned.[2]
  3. ^ Democrat Moe Maestas was appointed to succeed Candelaria[3]
  4. ^ Republican Gay Kernan (District 42) resigned.[4]
  5. ^ Republican Steve McCutcheon was appointed to succeed Kernan.[5]
  6. ^ Republican Stuart Ingle (District 27) resigned.[6]
  7. ^ Republican Greg Nibert was appointed to succeed Ingle.[7]

Leadership

Current members

† Senator was originally appointed.

Past composition of the Senate

See also

Notes

References

  1. ^ Lyman, Andy. "Sen. Jacob Candelaria leaves Dem party, registers as decline to state". Las Cruces Sun-News. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
  2. ^ Honeycutt, Jordan (October 19, 2022). "Senator resigns from New Mexico's legislature". KRQE.
  3. ^ Lohmann, Patrick; November 16, Source New Mexico (16 November 2022). "Maestas appointed to state Senate following bitter debate and dark accusations". Source New Mexico.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Segarra, Curtis (28 June 2023). "New Mexico Senator Gay Kernan retiring from legislature". KRQE News.
  5. ^ Segarra, Curtis (19 September 2023). "Governor appoints McCutcheon to New Mexico Senate". Roswell Daily Record.
  6. ^ Segarra, Curtis (25 October 2023). "New Mexico Senator Stuart Ingle announces retirement". Roswell Daily Record.
  7. ^ Segarra, Curtis (5 January 2024). "New Mexico politician appointed to state senate". KRQE News.
  8. ^ "Leadership". New Mexico Legislature. Retrieved August 24, 2023.
  9. ^ "Districts". New Mexico Legislature. Retrieved September 23, 2015.

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