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Who is on the ballot in 86514?

San Juan County, NM

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Three states share ZIP 86514. This page shows the New Mexico ballot (San Juan County). On the Arizona or Utah side?

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15 races and 7 ballot questions in your ZIP preview.

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About this preview
County and municipal contests depend on your exact address: use the address lookup below for the full slate. Every race links to official sources on the New Mexico voter hub.

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U.S. House

ZIP 86514 reaches only a small part of New Mexico, so your U.S. House district there depends on your street address. Enter a full address to pin down your district, or browse the fields on the New Mexico hub.

U.S. Senate
2 candidates
Federal ▾
Ben Ray Luján portrait
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Ben Ray Luján
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Ben Ray Luján is New Mexico's sitting U.S. senator, per the campaign site. He was born and raised on a small family farm in Nambé by a union ironworker and a public school employee, per the campaign site. The campaign site says he chaired the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Making New Mexico more affordable
  • Delivering for New Mexicans
  • Keeping New Mexicans safe
Campaign Finance
$7,669,989 raised · top industries: Small-dollar donors under $200 (32% of receipts), Large donors giving $2,000+ (23% of receipts)
Key voting record
Voted no on the November 2025 funding agreement that ended the government shutdown, which passed the Senate 60-40 in November 2025. Opposed
Campaign siteFull profile
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Larry Marker
REP
Biography
Larry Marker was born in Hobbs in 1963 and raised in Roswell after his family settled there in 1972, per the campaign site. He has worked in oil and gas production, farming, ranching, manufacturing, construction and service, per the campaign site. The campaign site says his Senate campaign earned a spot on the general ballot through the write-in primary process.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Powering New Mexico's future: protect jobs, schools and energy
  • Secure borders, safe neighborhoods
  • Standing with farmers and ranchers
Campaign Finance
$32,400 raised · top industries: Large donors giving $2,000+ (78% of receipts)
Campaign siteFull profile
Governor
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Deb Haaland
DEM
Biography
Deb Haaland is New Mexico's Democratic nominee for governor, a former U.S. secretary of the interior, former U.S. representative, and former state Democratic Party chair. Her running mate for lieutenant governor is Stephanie Garcia Richard, the state's outgoing commissioner of public lands, per the Santa Fe New Mexican. Her campaign emphasizes lowering family costs, supporting working families, clean energy, rural infrastructure, and Native and community representation.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Lower costs for New Mexico families
  • Invest in clean energy, infrastructure, and rural communities
  • Protect public lands, health care, and working-family supports
Campaign siteFull profile
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Gregg Hull
REP
Biography
Gregg Hull is New Mexico's Republican nominee for governor and a former three-term mayor of Rio Rancho. His running mate for lieutenant governor is state Senator David Gallegos of Eunice, per the Santa Fe New Mexican. His campaign emphasizes economic development, crime reduction, executive experience, and changing one-party control in state government.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Grow New Mexico's economy and private-sector jobs
  • Reduce crime and improve public safety
  • Bring mayoral executive experience to state government
Campaign siteFull profile
Attorney General
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Raúl Torrez
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Raúl Torrez is New Mexico's incumbent attorney general and the Democratic nominee for re-election in 2026. A former federal prosecutor, Justice Department senior advisor, and elected district attorney for the Albuquerque area, his office has emphasized public safety, crimes against children, consumer protection, and civil rights enforcement.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Strengthen public safety and violent-crime prosecution
  • Protect children and vulnerable New Mexicans
  • Enforce consumer protection and civil rights laws
Campaign siteFull profile
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Sam Kane
REP
Biography
Sam Kane is running for New Mexico Attorney General. He worked as a math teacher in Miami while attending law school at night, and later clerked for a federal judge in Las Cruces, New Mexico, per his campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Bring private-practice legal experience to the office
  • Focus the office on crime and public safety
  • Provide a check on one-party control of state government
Campaign siteFull profile
Secretary of State
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Amanda López Askin
DEM
Biography
Amanda López Askin is the Democratic nominee for New Mexico secretary of state, the Doña Ana County clerk and a former New Mexico State University regent. With incumbent Maggie Toulouse Oliver term-limited, her campaign emphasizes her county-level experience keeping elections running smoothly and securely.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Keep New Mexico elections secure and smooth-running
  • Bring county clerk experience to statewide election administration
  • Protect voter access across New Mexico
Campaign siteFull profile
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Ramona Goolsby
REP
Biography
Ramona Goolsby is the Republican nominee for New Mexico secretary of state, a retired nurse practitioner, Army veteran, and soil and water conservation board member. Her campaign emphasizes election integrity, enforcement of campaign finance statutes, and transparency in state government.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Protect election integrity
  • Enforce election finance statutes
  • Bring transparency and accountability to state government
Campaign siteFull profile
Treasurer
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Laura Montoya
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Laura Montoya is New Mexico's incumbent state treasurer and the Democratic nominee for re-election in 2026. The first Latina elected to the office, she previously served two terms as Sandoval County treasurer, and her campaign emphasizes serving with integrity, protecting public funds, and financial opportunity for all New Mexicans.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Manage state funds with integrity and transparency
  • Expand financial opportunity and literacy for New Mexicans
Campaign siteFull profile
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James Ellison
REP
Biography
James Ellison is the Republican nominee for New Mexico state treasurer, a chartered financial analyst, former Public Regulation Commission member, and former utility analyst. His campaign emphasizes responsible stewardship of the roughly $20 billion in state funds the treasurer manages directly.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Apply CFA-level investment discipline to state funds
  • Protect taxpayer dollars through responsible stewardship
  • Bring regulatory and analytical experience to the treasury
Campaign siteFull profile
Auditor
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Joseph Maestas
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Joseph Maestas is New Mexico's incumbent state auditor and the Democratic nominee for re-election in 2026. An engineer and former mayor of Española and Santa Fe city councilor, his office audits government agencies statewide to protect public funds and root out fraud, waste, and abuse.
Top Priorities
From other published sources
  • Root out fraud, waste, and abuse of public funds, per the New Mexico State Auditor's office website
  • Hold government agencies financially accountable, per the New Mexico State Auditor's office website
  • Bring engineering rigor to public oversight, per the New Mexico State Auditor's office website
Campaign siteFull profile
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Joshua James Lawrence
REP
Biography
Joshua James Lawrence is the Republican nominee for New Mexico state auditor, a film-industry worker and 2022 sheriff candidate. He offers a Republican alternative for the state's financial-oversight office. No 2026 campaign site was found as of October 15, 2026; facebook.com/SheriffJoshuaJames is a Facebook page, which is not a campaign site.
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Commissioner of Public Lands
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Michael Jack Perry
REP
Biography
Perry is a retired New Mexico Department of Game and Fish game warden and former Assistant Commissioner over state lands at the New Mexico State Land Office, per the campaign site. Per the campaign site, he owns Wildlife and Habitat Prescriptions, which works with ranch owners on land and habitat solutions, and serves as Vice Chair of the Chaves County Commission.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Responsible land management
  • Protecting water and watersheds
  • Wildfire and flood mitigation
Campaign siteFull profile
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Juan De Jesus Sanchez, III
DEM
Biography
Juan De Jesus Sanchez, III is the Democratic nominee for New Mexico commissioner of public lands, a farmer and conservation advocate whose family's ranch near Belen has relied on a State Trust Land grazing lease, per his campaign site. He previously worked as a natural resources specialist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and as political director for U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich, per Source New Mexico.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Protect New Mexico's public lands
  • Strengthen rural economies
  • Ensure land and water resources are stewarded responsibly
Campaign siteFull profile
Judge of The Court of Appeals Position 1
1 candidate
Statewide ▾
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Kris Houghton
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Kristopher Nicolas Houghton was appointed to the New Mexico Court of Appeals in August 2025 by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, per his campaign site. He previously served in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Albuquerque, including as Chief of the Criminal Division, and as a Department of Justice judicial attache in Bogota, Colombia, from 2012 to 2025, and is a graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Law, per his campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
New Mexico Judicial Retention
3 candidates
Statewide ▾
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C. Shannon Bacon
Nonpartisan INCUMBENT
Biography
Bacon previously served as a district court judge on the Second Judicial District Court and as its Presiding Civil Judge, and before that was a partner at Sutin, Thayer and Brown, P.A., per the court's official biography. She was appointed to the Supreme Court in January 2019 and took the oath of office on February 4, 2019, and won election to the seat in 2020.
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David K. Thomson
Nonpartisan INCUMBENT
Biography
Thomson earned his law degree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, clerked for a U.S. District Judge, worked as a litigation attorney and Deputy Attorney General in the New Mexico Attorney General's Office, and served as a state trial judge in the First Judicial District from 2015, per the court's official biography. He took the oath of office as a Supreme Court justice on February 4, 2019, and won election to the seat in 2020.
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J. Miles Hanisee
Nonpartisan INCUMBENT
Biography
Hanisee earned his law degree from Pepperdine University School of Law, clerked for two Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals judges, and worked as an Assistant United States Attorney from 1996 to 2007 before entering private practice, per the court's official biography. Governor Susana Martinez appointed him to the Court of Appeals in 2011, and voters retained him in 2018.
About this race
Retention vote: each judge appears alone with a yes-or-no question on keeping the seat.

Countywide races in San Juan County

ZIP 86514 sits in San Juan County, per the Census crosswalk. These seats are voted countywide; district seats, city races and school boards need a street address. All San Juan County races (22).

San Juan County Assessor
1 candidate
County ▾
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John D. Kuhn
REP
Biography
John D. Kuhn is on the November 3, 2026 ballot for San Juan County Assessor, per the New Mexico Secretary of State's certified 2026 General Election Contest/Candidate List. No campaign website was found as of September 20, 2026.
Full profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
John D. Kuhn is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the New Mexico Secretary of State's certified 2026 General Election Contest/Candidate List.
San Juan County Sheriff
1 candidate
County ▾
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Kenneth W. Christesen
REP
Biography
Kenneth W. Christesen has lived in San Juan County since 1973 and spent 29 years in law enforcement there, per his campaign site, previously serving two elected terms as San Juan County Sheriff and as president of the New Mexico Sheriffs' Association.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Supporting deputies by rebuilding staffing and providing resources and training
  • Targeting drug trafficking, including methamphetamine and fentanyl, through proactive enforcement and interagency cooperation
  • Promoting open communication and fair policing to build community trust
Campaign siteFull profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Kenneth W. Christesen is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the New Mexico Secretary of State's certified 2026 General Election Contest/Candidate List.
San Juan County Probate Judge
1 candidate
County ▾
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Gary Risley
REP
Biography
Gary Risley is the sitting San Juan County probate judge, per the Durango Herald, having previously served two earlier terms in the office before term limits and later returning by county commission appointment in 2021. Risley is the founding director of the Risley Law Firm, P.C. in Farmington, per the Durango Herald. No campaign website was found as of September 20, 2026.
Full profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Gary Risley is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the New Mexico Secretary of State's certified 2026 General Election Contest/Candidate List.
New Mexico 11th Judicial District Court, Division II
1 candidate
County ▾
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Bradley Lyle Keeler
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Bradley Lyle Keeler is on the November 3, 2026 ballot for New Mexico 11th Judicial District Court, Division II, per the New Mexico Secretary of State's official general-election candidate list. No campaign website was found as of September 25, 2026.
Full profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Bradley Lyle Keeler is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot for this seat on the Eleventh Judicial District, per the New Mexico Secretary of State's 2026 general election candidate list. Bradley Lyle Keeler is the sitting judge in this division, per https://eleventhdistrict.nmcourts.gov/about-this-district/mckinley-county-gallup-district-court-judges/ and .../san-juan-county-aztec-farmington-district-court/. Every voter in McKinley and San Juan counties elects this seat, since New Mexico district judges are elected district-wide across the 11th Judicial District (the New Mexico Courts' Courts by District page). New Mexico district judges run in a partisan election the first time they seek the seat, then stand later on a separate nonpartisan retention question; this is that partisan race.
New Mexico 11th Judicial District Court, Division VI
2 candidates
County ▾
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Brenna Clani-Washinawatok
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Brenna Clani-Washinawatok currently serves as the Division 6 district judge at the Aztec District Court in the 11th Judicial District, covering San Juan County, per the court's own website. No campaign website was found as of September 25, 2026.
Full profile
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Brian D. Decker
REP
Biography
Brian D. Decker is on the November 3, 2026 ballot for New Mexico 11th Judicial District Court, Division VI, per the New Mexico Secretary of State's official general-election candidate list. No campaign website was found as of September 25, 2026.
Full profile
About this race
Brenna Clani-Washinawatok and Brian D. Decker are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for this seat on the Eleventh Judicial District, per the New Mexico Secretary of State's 2026 general election candidate list. Brenna Clani-Washinawatok is the sitting judge in this division, per https://eleventhdistrict.nmcourts.gov/about-this-district/mckinley-county-gallup-district-court-judges/ and .../san-juan-county-aztec-farmington-district-court/. Every voter in McKinley and San Juan counties elects this seat, since New Mexico district judges are elected district-wide across the 11th Judicial District (the New Mexico Courts' Courts by District page). New Mexico district judges run in a partisan election the first time they seek the seat, then stand later on a separate nonpartisan retention question; this is that partisan race.
New Mexico 11th Judicial District Court, Division VIII
1 candidate
County ▾
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Stephen M. Wayne
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Stephen M. Wayne currently serves as the Division 8 district judge at the Aztec District Court in the 11th Judicial District, covering San Juan County, per the court's own website. No campaign website was found as of September 25, 2026.
Full profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Stephen M. Wayne is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot for this seat on the Eleventh Judicial District, per the New Mexico Secretary of State's 2026 general election candidate list. Stephen M. Wayne is the sitting judge in this division, per https://eleventhdistrict.nmcourts.gov/about-this-district/mckinley-county-gallup-district-court-judges/ and .../san-juan-county-aztec-farmington-district-court/. Every voter in McKinley and San Juan counties elects this seat, since New Mexico district judges are elected district-wide across the 11th Judicial District (the New Mexico Courts' Courts by District page). New Mexico district judges run in a partisan election the first time they seek the seat, then stand later on a separate nonpartisan retention question; this is that partisan race.

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