November 2026 voting information

Early voting starts Tuesday. Oct. 6, for the 2026 general election.

New Mexico voters will choose a new governor and lieutenant governor this year, along with a new land commissioner. There are also races for other statewide offices as well as one U.S. Senate seat and all three U.S. congressional seats, including the District 2 seat that includes Doña Ana County. There are also three constitutional amendments and three bond questions on this year’s ballot.

Here are important dates:

• Tuesday, Oct. 6: Early voting begins at the Doña Ana County Government Center, 845 N. Motel Blvd. You can vote 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. The office will be closed Monday, Oct. 12 for Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

• Saturday, Oct. 17: Expanded early voting locations open across the county. These sites are open 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday: Anthony Public Library multipurpose room, 750 Landers Road in Anthony, New Mexico; Doña Ana Community College (DACC)-Chaparral, 755 Prescott Anthony Drive in Chaparral; DACC- Sunland Park Center, 3365 McNutt Road in Sunland Park; Hatch Valley Public Schools Student Services Center, 350 Main St. in Hatch; Mesilla Town Hall, 2231 Avenida de Mesilla in Mesilla; and, in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County Government Center, 845 N. Motel Blvd.; Corbett Center Student Union, 1600 International Mall on the NMSU campus; DACC East Mesa campus, 2800 Sonoma Ranch Blvd.; and Las Cruces City Hall, 700 N. Main St.

• Tuesday, Oct. 20: Deadline to apply for an absentee ballot. Applications are available in person at Doña Ana County Government Center, or you can request an absentee ballot online at nmvote.gov and donaanacountyelections.com. You can take your completed ballot to the Doña Ana County Clerk’s Office on the first floor of County Government Center, or drop it in one of the nine secured containers at Anthony City Hall Municipal Complex, 820 Highway 478 in Anthony, New Mexico; Delores C. Wright Educational Center, 400 E. Lisa Drive in Chaparral; Hatch Valley High School, 170 E. Herrera Road in Hatch; Mesilla Town Hall, 2231 Avenida de Mesilla in Mesilla; Sunland Park City Library, 1000 McNutt Road in Sunland Park; and in Las Cruces, the County Government Center; Corbett Center Student Union, 1600 International Mall on the NMSU campus; Las Cruces City Hall, 700 N. Main St.; and Sonoma Elementary School, 4201 Northrise Drive. Absentee ballots must be received by the clerk’s office by 7 p.m. on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 3. For more information, visit dacelections.com, click on “Voter Information” and “Absentee voting.”

• Saturday, Oct. 31: Last day to vote early. Doña Ana County Government Center is open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. this date, and the other expanded voting locations are open 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

• Tuesday, Nov. 3: General Election Day. 42 voting convenience centers are open 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Las Cruces, Mesilla, Anthony, Berino, Chaparral, Garfield, Village of Doña Ana, Hatch, La Mesa, La Union, Mesquite, Organ, Radium Springs, Rincon, Santa Teresa, San Miguel, Sunland Park and Vado. For locations, visit dacelections.com and click on “Voting Locations and Maps.”

The 2026 general election ballot in New Mexico includes four proposed constitutional amendments and three bond questions:

• Constitutional Amendment 1, if passed, would require the governor to provide veto messages on all bills vetoed in whole or in part and to provide that all bills passed by the legislature and not acted on by the governor will become law.

• Constitutional Amendment 2, if passed, would  remove the requirement that school elections be separate from partisan elections.

• Constitutional Amendment 3, if passed, would establish nominating committees to provide lists of nominees to the governor for appointment of nonstudent members to the boards of regents of state educational institutions.

• Constitutional Amendment 4, if passed, would allow New Mexico legislators to be paid, with legislative compensation limited to the median household income for New Mexico.

• Bond Question 1, if passed, would authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds up to $21,582,213 to make capital expenditures for certain senior citizen facility improvement, construction and equipment acquisition projects across the state.

• Bond Question 2, if passed, would authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds up to $19,324,188 to make capital expenditures for academic, public school, public and tribal library resource acquisitions across the state.

• Bond Question 3, if passed, would authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds up to $352,225,379 to make capital expenditures for certain higher education, special schools and tribal schools across the state.

Visit nmvote.gov to register to vote, update your voter registration, view your sample ballot and/or request an absentee ballot. Your sample ballot shows all the federal, statewide and local races you can vote in, including which New Mexico House of Representatives district and which county commission district you live in. All state representative districts are on the ballot. Only county commission districts 1 and 3 are on this year’s ballot. There are no state senate races on the 2026 ballot.

All qualified voters in the county can vote in local races for county sheriff, assessor, probate judge, district judge Division 4 and magistrate judges divisions 1-7. Also on the ballot are governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general, land commissioner, state treasurer, state auditor, public education commissioner, state court of appeals judge (position 1), and state representative.

Here are some things to look for in local races on the ballot:

• There are nine New Mexico House of Representatives districts that include parts of Doña Ana County: Districts 32-38 and 52 and 53. Six of those races – districts 32, 33, 36, 37, 38 and 53 – are contested. The other three have only one Democrat running running. District 32 includes parts of Doña Ana, Hidalgo and Luna counties. District 38 includes parts of Doña Ana, Sierra and Socorro counties. District 53 includes parts of Doña Ana and Otero counties. The other districts are located entirely in Doña Ana County.

• There are two county commission races on the ballot: District 1, which has a Democrat and a Republican on the ballot, and District 3, which has two Democrats (one is a write-in) and one declined to state (the incumbent) on the ballot. Districts 2, 4 and 5 are not on this year’s ballot.

• In other county races, there are two candidates – a Democrat and a Republican – running for county sheriff. There is only one candidate for county assessor and one for probate judge – both are Democrats. County clerk and county treasurer are not on this year’s  ballot.

• In local judicial races, there are seven county magistrate judge races on the ballot. The single candidate in each race is a Democrat; there are no Republicans on the ballot. There is only one Democrat on the ballot in the Third Judicial District Division 4 race. There are two district judges – divisions 1 and 7 – up for retention.

For more information, call the Doña Ana County Elections Bureau at 575-647-7428, email elections@donaana.gov and visit dacelections.com. Call the New Mexico Secretary of State’s Office at 505-827-3600. You can also visit vote411.org/new-mexico.