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2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 1 - Elections
Article 8 - Nominations and Primary Elections
Section 1-8-20 - Primary Election Law; candidacy for more than one office.
Universal Citation: NM Stat § 1-8-20 (2020)
No person shall be a candidate in the primary election for more than one office, except that any person may be a candidate for both the expiring term and the next succeeding term for an office when both terms are to be voted upon at the next succeeding general election.
History: 1953 Comp., § 3-8-18, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 240, § 168.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For candidates for expiring and next succeeding congressional term, see 1-15-19 to 1-15-23 NMSA 1978.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — More than one office in the same election, right to such nomination, or to become candidate, for, 94 A.L.R.2d 557.
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