New Mexico Senate: Party Control and History

Current seats

Democratic majorityDemocrats 26, Republicans 16. 42 seats; 22 for a majority.

Democrats 26Republicans 16

Control counts seats by party; coalitions and power-sharing agreements are not shown.

Members as of November 3, 2026 (Open States), before the winners of the November 3, 2026 elections take office.

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District map

Democrat 26Republican 16

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2024: the candidate(s) with the most votes in each contest (MEDSL); contests with unreliable rows are not shown. Lines of the 2024 elections (US Census Bureau).

Members as of November 3, 2026 (Open States), before the winners of the November 3, 2026 elections take office.

Seats after each election, 1970-2020

Seats by election, table

Year	D	R	Other	Seats	Control
2020	27	15	0	42	Democratic majority
2016	26	16	0	42	Democratic majority
2012	25	17	0	42	Democratic majority
2008	27	15	0	42	Democratic majority
2004	24	18	0	42	Democratic majority
2000	24	18	0	42	Democratic majority
1996	25	17	0	42	Democratic majority
1994	27	15	0	42	Democratic majority (no regular election)
1992	27	15	0	42	Democratic majority
1990	26	16	0	42	Democratic majority (no regular election)
1988	26	16	0	42	Democratic majority
1986	21	21	0	42	Tied (no regular election)
1984	21	21	0	42	Tied
1980	22	20	0	42	Democratic majority
1978	33	9	0	42	Democratic majority
1976	33	9	0	42	Democratic majority
1974	29	13	0	42	Democratic majority
1972	30	12	0	42	Democratic majority
1970	Not available

Carl Klarner, State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022: version 1.0, released June 12, 2024; a fixed historic release.

District results, 2016-2024

The candidate with the most votes in each contest.

2024: 25 contests

Incomplete in the source: counties in the file with no rows for this chamber (uncontested seats left off the ballot, or missing data).

District	Most votes	Party	Share	Note
1	WILLIAM E SHARER	Republican	100.0%	one candidate
2	STEVE D LANIER	Republican	78.5%
3	SHANNON DAWN PINTO	Democrat	100.0%	one candidate
4	GEORGE K MUNOZ	Democrat	100.0%	one candidate
5	LEO JARAMILLO	Democrat	100.0%	some precinct votes suppressed in the source (counted as 0); one candidate
6	ROBERTO JESSE "BOBBY" GONZALES	Democrat	100.0%	one candidate
7	PAT WOODS	Republican	100.0%	one candidate
8	PETE CAMPOS	Democrat	100.0%	one candidate
9	CINDY NAVA	Democrat	55.9%
10	KATY DUHIGG	Democrat	57.6%
11	LINDA M LOPEZ	Democrat	100.0%	one candidate
12	JAY C BLOCK	Republican	52.4%
13	M DEBBIE O'MALLEY	Democrat	100.0%	one candidate
14	MICHAEL PADILLA	Democrat	100.0%	one candidate
15	HEATHER JEAN BERGHMANS	Democrat	60.7%
16	ANTOINETTE SEDILLO LOPEZ	Democrat	100.0%	one candidate
17	MIMI STEWART	Democrat	100.0%	one candidate
18	NATALIE R FIGUEROA	Democrat	58.0%
19	ANT L THORNTON	Republican	57.0%
20	MARTIN E HICKEY	Democrat	57.5%
21	NICOLE L TOBIASSEN	Republican	52.8%
22	BENNY SHENDO JR	Democrat	100.0%	one candidate
23	HAROLD JAMES POPE JR	Democrat	53.4%
24	LINDA M TRUJILLO	Democrat	100.0%	one candidate
25	PETER WIRTH	Democrat	100.0%	one candidate

2020: 25 contests

Incomplete in the source: counties in the file with no rows for this chamber (uncontested seats left off the ballot, or missing data).

District	Most votes	Party	Share	Note
1	WILLIAM E SHARER	Republican	100.0%	one candidate
2	STEVEN P NEVILLE	Republican	100.0%	one candidate
3	SHANNON DAWN PINTO	Democrat	67.4%
4	GEORGE K MUNOZ	Democrat	67.8%
5	LEO JARAMILLO	Democrat	68.6%
6	ROBERTO "BOBBY" JESSE GONZALES	Democrat	100.0%	one candidate
7	PAT WOODS	Republican	100.0%	one candidate
8	PETE CAMPOS	Democrat	64.9%
9	BRENDA GRACE MC KENNA	Democrat	53.9%
10	KATY M DUHIGG	Democrat	52.5%
11	LINDA M LOPEZ	Democrat	69.4%
12	GERALD P ORTIZ Y PINO	Democrat	77.5%
13	BILL B O"NEILL	Democrat	62.8%
14	MICHAEL PADILLA	Democrat	65.7%
15	DANIEL A IVEY-SOTO	Democrat	60.1%
16	ANTOINETTE SEDILLO LOPEZ	Democrat	78.1%
17	MIMI STEWART	Democrat	65.8%
18	BILL TALLMAN	Democrat	55.1%
19	GREGG WILLIAM SCHMEDES	Republican	53.7%
20	MARTIN E HICKEY	Democrat	54.1%
21	MARK DAVID MOORES	Republican	53.2%
22	BENNY SHENDO JR	Democrat	66.5%
23	HAROLD JAMES POPE JR	Democrat	52.1%
24	NANCY RODRIGUEZ	Democrat	80.0%
25	PETER WIRTH	Democrat	82.4%

2016: 42 contests

District	Most votes	Party	Share	Note
1	WILLIAM E SHARER	not in source	69.8%	seats not in source
2	STEVEN P NEVILLE	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
3	JOHN PINTO	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
4	GEORGE K MUNOZ	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
5	RICHARD C MARTINEZ	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
6	CARLOS R CISNEROS	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
7	JOHN PATRICK WOODS	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
8	PETE CAMPOS	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
9	JOHN M SAPIEN	not in source	50.4%	seats not in source
10	CANDACE RUTH GOULD	not in source	50.9%	seats not in source
11	LINDA M LOPEZ	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
12	GERALD P ORTIZ Y PINO	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
13	BILL B O""NEILL	not in source	65.9%	seats not in source
14	MICHAEL PADILLA	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
15	DANIEL A IVEY-SOTO	not in source	55.8%	seats not in source
16	CISCO MCSORLEY	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
17	MIMI STEWART	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
18	BILL G TALLMAN	not in source	51.0%	seats not in source
19	JAMES P WHITE	not in source	61.3%	seats not in source
20	WILLIAM H PAYNE	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
21	MARK DAVID MOORES	not in source	56.1%	seats not in source
22	BENNY SHENDO JR	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
23	SANDER RUE	not in source	51.7%	seats not in source
24	NANCY RODRIGUEZ	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
25	PETER WIRTH	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
26	JACOB CANDELARIA	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
27	STUART INGLE	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
28	HOWIE C MORALES	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
29	GREGORY A BACA	not in source	55.0%	seats not in source
30	CLEMENTE SANCHEZ	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
31	JOSEPH CERVANTES	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
32	CLIFF R PIRTLE	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
33	WILLIAM F BURT	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
34	RON GRIGGS	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
35	JOHN ARTHUR SMITH	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
36	JEFF STEINBORN	not in source	59.6%	seats not in source
37	WILLIAM P SOULES	not in source	55.5%	seats not in source
38	MARY KAY PAPEN	not in source	67.0%	seats not in source
39	ELIZABETH LIZ STEFANICS	not in source	51.0%	seats not in source
40	CRAIG W BRANDT	not in source	55.3%	seats not in source
41	CARROLL H LEAVELL	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
42	GAY G KERNAN	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate

Not available: 2022, 2018.

MEDSL precinct returns 2016-2024: a fixed historic release; the file records no release date.

Sources

Current members: Open States (CC0 1.0), commit 3a1d876 of November 3, 2026; seat totals from openstates-metadata (MIT).

Seats after each election: Carl Klarner, State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022, Harvard Dataverse (CC0 1.0).

District results: MEDSL precinct returns (2018-2024 CC0 1.0; 2016 MIT License).

District lines: US Census Bureau, TIGER/Line cartographic boundaries (public domain), state legislative districts 2024, 1:500,000.

Data through November 3, 2026.