New Mexico, here are your 28 new senators and representatives

With the large number of state representatives and senators who decided to retire from the Legislature this year, New Mexico has known for quite some time 2025 would bring a lot of new faces in the Roundhouse.

Now that the 2024 election cycle has wrapped up and unofficial results are in, the state has concrete numbers: There will be 28 new representatives and senators serving New Mexico come 2025.

The 42-member Senate is getting 15 new legislators, nine Republicans and six Democrats. That includes four policymakers who formerly served in the House.

The 70-member House is getting 13 new legislators, seven Republicans and six Democrats.

Three of the 28 policymakers are also ex-legislators who served in past years returning to the Roundhouse: Republican Gabriel Ramos and Democrat Linda Trujillo in the Senate, and Republican Rebecca Dow in the House.

Republicans picked up a few seats in the election, shifting the Democratic majority to a margin of 26-16 in the Senate and 44-26 in the House.

The new senators:

District 2: Steve Lanier, R-Aztec

District 9: Cindy Nava, D-Bernalillo

District 12: Jay Block, R-Rio Rancho

District 13: Debbie O’Malley, D-Albuquerque

District 15: Heather Berghmans, D-Albuquerque

District 18: Natalie Figueroa, D-Albuquerque

District 19: Ant Thornton, R-Sandia Park

District 21: Nicole Tobiassen, R-Albuquerque

District 24: Linda Trujillo, D-Santa Fe

District 27: Patrick Henry Boone IV, R-Elida

District 28: Gabriel Ramos, R-Silver City

District 30: Angel Charley, D-Acoma

District 32: Candy Spence Ezzell, R-Roswell

District 34: James Townsend, R-Artesia

District 42: Larry Scott, R-Hobbs

The new representatives:

District 3: William Hall, R-Aztec

District 4: Joseph Hernandez, D-Shiprock

District 18: Marianna Anaya, D-Albuquerque

District 30: Elizabeth Diane Torres-Velasquez, D-Albuquerque

District 31: Nicole Chavez, R-Albuquerque

District 38: Rebecca Dow, R-Truth or Consequences

District 53: Sarah Silva, D-Las Cruces

District 54: Jonathan Allen Henry, R-Artesia

District 57: Catherine Cullen, R-Rio Rancho (potential vote recount)

District 58: Angelita Mejia, R-Dexter

District 62: Elaine Sena Cortez, R-Hobbs

District 69: Michelle Abeyta, D-Tohajiilee

District 70: Anita Amalia Gonzales, D-Las Vegas