With five precincts left to report from county commission District 1, incumbent Oscar Vasquez Butler has 60 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary to 40 percent for challenger Chris Jaramillo.
With 92 of 106 precincts reporting countywide, Butler has 385 votes. Jaramillo has 258.
The winner faces Republican John Zimmerman in November.
That commission district is the largest in the county, is extremely rural and includes most of the county’s colonias. It wraps around Las Cruces on all sides except the east.
Zimmerman had 219 votes and no opponent in Tuesday’s primary. That means 862 votes were cast in that district (plus those left from the five precincts that have yet to report), making voter turnout there extremely low.