A 27-year law enforcement veteran will file to run against Bernalillo County John Allen in the June 2nd Democratic primary election, City Desk has learned. Phil Snedeker tells City Desk he will file qualifying paperwork and signatures Tuesday morning on local filing day. He has served in the criminal justice system for 47 years, according […]
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Money talks: Rio Rancho mayoral runoff candidates lead in cash and votes
The two candidates who raised the most money in the Rio Rancho mayoral race are also the two headed to the April 14 runoff, according to campaign finance reports filed before the March 3 election and released publicly March 6. City Councilor Paul Wymer and former Sandoval County Democratic Party chair Alexandria Piland together raised […]
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NMGOP scrambles to qualify a write-in against Ben Ray Luján. Who is he and how does that work?
When the Secretary of State’s Office closed on the deadline day for candidates to qualify for 2026 elections, Republicans had qualified at least one candidate in most competitive races except one very big one: U.S. Senate. Now Republicans are scrambling to qualify at least one candidate as a write-in for the June primary, ensuring that […]
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Here’s everyone running for Congress in New Mexico this year
Democrats and Republicans both met this past weekend to pick their nominees for U.S. Senate and all three Congressional districts up for election in 2026. Candidates vying for a spot on the ballot were first required to collect thousands of signatures from qualified party voters (2,351 for Republicans, 2,531 for Democrats). They are then required […]
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State Republicans pick Hull, Turner to lead ’26 ticket
The state Republican Party’s convention in Ruidoso narrowed the list of five men vying for New Mexico’s biggest political prize in 2026 down to two: Rio Rancho Mayor Greg Hull and advertising executive Doug Turner — but that may not keep the other candidates from using a backdoor to get their name on the ballot […]
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Torres triumphs in Bernalillo election, tax measure passed to fuel town’s economic growth
Jack Torres won a fifth term as mayor of the Town of Bernalillo on Tuesday, defeating challenger James Baca in a municipal election that also asked voters to decide on a new economic development tax. With all 10 of 10 precincts fully reporting, according to unofficial results from the New Mexico Secretary of State’s Office, […]
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A possible first for Rio Rancho: If Wymer wins mayor’s race, how will his council seat be filled?
If City Councilor Paul Wymer wins the April 14 runoff election for mayor, Rio Rancho will face a vacancy-filling process that has never occurred in the city’s history — and the city’s charter has a detailed roadmap for how it would work. Wymer, who led Tuesday’s six-candidate primary with 45% of the vote, advanced to […]
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Wymer, Piland advance to runoff in Rio Rancho mayoral race
City Councilor Paul Wymer and former Sandoval County Democratic Party chair Alexandria Piland will face each other in a runoff election April 14 after neither captured a majority in Tuesday’s six-candidate Rio Rancho mayoral election, unofficial results show. With all 114 precincts fully reporting and 13,746 total votes cast, Wymer led the field with 6,237 […]
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Election results: Mayoral race headed to runoff
Rio Rancho voters headed to the polls Tuesday to decide who will succeed Mayor Gregg Hull in New Mexico’s third-largest city, but no candidate cleared the required majority threshold in the six-person mayoral race, forcing a runoff election between City Councilor Paul Wymer and former Democratic Party of Sandoval County chair Alexandria Piland. Under Rio […]
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Torres wins fifth term as Bernalillo mayor; voters approve economic development tax
Jack Torres won a fifth term as mayor of the Town of Bernalillo on Tuesday, defeating challenger James Baca in a municipal election that also asked voters to decide on a new economic development tax. With all precincts reporting at least some results as of 9 p.m., Torres defeated Baca by a vote of 605 […]