{"id":132122,"date":"2016-03-02T11:05:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T18:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=132122"},"modified":"2016-03-03T07:18:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T14:18:29","slug":"voters-oust-incumbents-in-some-nm-cities-and-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2016\/03\/voters-oust-incumbents-in-some-nm-cities-and-towns\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters oust incumbents in some NM cities and towns"},"content":{"rendered":"

While many\u00a0incumbents won re-election to mayoral, council and judicial seats in cities and towns across New Mexico on Tuesday,\u00a0a number of incumbents were also ousted.<\/p>\n

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In\u00a0Anthony, for example,\u00a0Diana Murrillo Trujillo, a sitting trustee, defeated incumbent Mayor\u00a0Arnulfo Casta\u00f1eda in a five-way race, the Las Cruces Sun-News is reporting<\/a>. In that city, incumbent Trustee Pilar Madrid also wasn’t re-elected.<\/p>\n

In Farmington, challenger Sean Sharer defeated longtime incumbent District 2 City Councilor Mary Fischer in a four-way race, the Farmington Daily Times is reporting<\/a>. Sharer is\u00a0chairman of the San Juan County Republican Party and the son of state\u00a0Sen. Bill Sharer. Fischer had held the city council\u00a0position from 1982-1986 and again from 1992 until now.<\/p>\n

In Hatch, voters ousted two incumbent trustees — James L. Whitlock and Noel E. McConnell, according to the Sun-News<\/a>. In Bosque Farms, challenger\u00a0Wayne Ake defeated incumbent Mayor\u00a0Robert G. Knowlton, according to the Valencia County News-Bulletin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Voters in Valencia County also\u00a0kicked out of office a municipal judge in Peralta,\u00a0David Young, who was defeated by Tracy Aragon, and the District 1 city councilor in Los Lunas,\u00a0Amanda Perea, who was defeated by\u00a0Christopher Ortiz, the News-Bulletin reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Grants, the incumbent District 3 councilor, Ruben J. Sandoval, lost<\/a> to Cyndi J. Reynolds. In Aztec, incumbent District 1 City Commissioner Roberta Locke lost to Austin Randall, according to the Daily Times<\/a>. And in Questa, incumbent Village Councilor Miguel Romero lost his seat, according to the Taos News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Alamogordo, voters replaced District 3 City Councilor Robert Rentschler with Susan Payne, the Alamogordo Daily News reported<\/a>. And in Sunland Park, voters outsted District 5 City Councilor Isabel Santos, the Sun-News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t that way everywhere.\u00a0Voters largely re-elected incumbents in cities including Mesilla<\/a>,\u00a0Hobbs<\/a>, Kirtland<\/a>, Bloomfield<\/a>,\u00a0Belen, Los Ranchos<\/a>, Socorro<\/a>,\u00a0Carlsbad<\/a>, and Roswell<\/a>. And while voters in Sunland Park outsted Santos, they re-elected<\/a> another councilor and Mayor Javier Perea.<\/p>\n

Voters in Espa\u00f1ola narrowly ousted one city councilor, District 4’s Cory Lewis, but they kept two other council incumbents and a judge, according to the Valley Daily Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many municipal seats throughout\u00a0New Mexico were being vacated and had no incumbent. In Santa Fe,\u00a0Renee Villarreal won the\u00a0open\u00a0District 1 seat on the City Council, The Santa Fe New Mexican is reporting<\/a>. And in Silver City,\u00a0Ken Ladner won an open, three-way race\u00a0for mayor, the Silver City Sun-News is reporting<\/a>. Newcomers also won open seats in Taos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A race\u00a0in Grant County was noteworthy because a write-in candidate won: In Bayard, Adrian Ortiz won one of two seats on the town council, edging out a\u00a0candidate who was on the ballot by four votes<\/a>\u00a0even though his name didn’t appear on the ballot.<\/p>\n

There will be runoff elections in a handful of cities including Rio Rancho<\/a> and Las Vegas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While many incumbents won re-election to mayoral, council and judicial seats in cities and towns across New Mexico on Tuesday, a number of incumbents were also ousted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[708,173,2258,166,885,276,167],"class_list":["post-132122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2016-election","tag-anthony","tag-farmington","tag-hatch","tag-hobbs","tag-municipal-elections","tag-sunland-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}