New Mexico’s State Canvass Board unanimously certified the results of the 2024 General Election at its Nov. 26 meeting in Santa Fe. 

The State Canvass Board is composed of the Governor, Secretary of State and Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court.  

“The 2024 General Election was run with efficiency and integrity by the state’s election administrators and every New Mexican should have the highest level of confidence in these official election results,” Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver said in a press release. “I want to thank the members of the State Canvass Board for their work this morning and my staff at the Secretary of State’s Office, our county clerks and their staff, the poll workers, our vendors and our local, state and federal partners who were the backbone of this successful election.”

The official, certified results for the 2024 General Election are available on the Secretary of State’s website.

During the meeting, the Board signed the certificate of canvass that makes the results of the 2024 General Election official and also ordered automatic recounts in two contests.

The New Mexico House District 57 race and the election for Los Alamos County Commissioner (At Large) are going to a recount.

According to New Mexico election law, an automatic recount is triggered when the margin between the two candidates is less than “.25%, .5%, or 1%, depending on the race.”

The State Canvass Board will certify the automatic recount results at its Dec. 16 meeting.

The Board also released some voter turnout numbers from the 2024 General Election:

  • Total Registered Voters eligible to participate in this election – 1,382,761 
  • Total Voter Turnout – 928,290 (67.13%)
    • Absentee Turnout –  111,403 (12.00%) 
    • Early Voting Turnout –  556,281 (59.93%) 
    • Election Day Turnout –  252,515 (27.20%) 
    • Hand Tally/Provisional –  8,091 (0.87%) 
  • Use of Same-Day Voter Registration (Early Voting and Election Day) – 52,358
    • Election Day SDR transactions – 25,485

Kevin Hendricks is a local news editor with nm.news. He is a two-decade veteran of local news as a sportswriter and assistant editor with the ABQ Journal and Rio Rancho Observer.

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