2015 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 1 - Elections
Section 10 Ballots and Ballot Labels
Section 1-10-8 Ballots; primary and general elections; order of offices.

1-10-8. Ballots; primary and general elections; order of offices.

The ballot used in the primary and general elections shall contain, when applicable, the offices to be voted on in the following order:

A. president and vice president;

B. United States senator;

C. United States representative;

D. non-judicial state offices to be voted on at large, in the order prescribed by the secretary of state;

E. state senator;

F. state representative;

G. other districted offices, in the order prescribed by the secretary of state;

H. judicial offices in partisan contests, in the order prescribed by the secretary of state;

I. county commissioners;

J. county clerk;

K. county treasurer;

L. county assessor;

M. county sheriff;

N. probate judge; and

O. in the order prescribed by the secretary of state:

(1) judicial offices in retention elections;

(2) local government ballot questions authorized by the board of county commissioners; and

(3) other questions prescribed by the secretary of state.

History: 1953 Comp., 3-10-11.8, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 222, 31; 1991, ch. 105, 17; 2011, ch. 56, 1; 2015, ch. 145, 58.