2017 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 1 - Elections
Article 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.