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New Mexico Constitutional Amendment 3

Nominating committees for boards of regents. 2026 results by county, from New Mexico's official results file: Yes 70.0%, No 30.0% statewide.

Statewide

On the ballot: Proposing an amendment to Article 12, Section 13 of the Constitution of New Mexico to establish nominating committees to provide lists of nominees to the governor for appointment of nonstudent members to the boards of regents of state educational institutions; providing that student members of boards of regents shall be appointed from a list provided by an elected student governing body of the institution; providing that, except for a student member, members of the boards of regents shall not have changed their political party registration in the twelve months preceding appointment.

A yes vote
The proposed amendment would require the legislature to establish a bipartisan or nonpartisan regent nominating committee for each of the 10 state educational institutions and would limit the governor's prospective appointments to the nominees selected by the regent nominating committees.
Yes 70.0% No 30.0%

445,110 yes and 191,138 no.

The Secretary of State's voter guide, page 20 · The Secretary of State's text of the statewide questions · The state's unofficial results

The state's unofficial totals. We don't call measures.

By county

33 counties: Yes has the most votes in 33. The figures for each county are from the same file and add up to the statewide totals.

CountyYesNoVotes
Bernalillo County71.2%28.8%218,406
Catron County54.9%45.1%1,655
Chaves County59.8%40.2%13,788
Cibola County69.1%30.9%6,336
Colfax County65.6%34.4%4,206
Curry County61.8%38.2%9,333
De Baca County55.4%44.6%615
Doña Ana County73.9%26.1%60,720
Eddy County59.6%40.4%14,061
Grant County71.3%28.7%10,335
Guadalupe County67.1%32.9%1,210
Harding County59.6%40.4%322
Hidalgo County67.3%32.7%1,165
Lea County59.8%40.2%11,611
Lincoln County64.1%35.9%6,642
Los Alamos County66.4%33.6%8,478
Luna County65.5%34.5%5,249
McKinley County73.5%26.5%17,029
Mora County61.4%38.6%1,580
Otero County63.0%37.0%15,052
Quay County58.4%41.6%2,454
Rio Arriba County72.7%27.3%10,696
Roosevelt County62.1%37.9%4,237
San Juan County60.1%39.9%32,290
San Miguel County73.0%27.0%7,762
Sandoval County69.8%30.2%58,551
Santa Fe County79.5%20.5%62,322
Sierra County65.3%34.7%4,081
Socorro County68.9%31.1%4,876
Taos County79.3%20.7%11,502
Torrance County59.5%40.5%4,854
Union County58.5%41.5%1,081
Valencia County65.7%34.3%23,749

The share with the most votes in each place is in bold. That's the count, not a result.

Sources & scope

New Mexico's official results, these figures first read Nov 12, 11:27 AM. Unofficial until certified. New Mexico's page has its other statewide offices, ballot measures and legislature.