{"data":{"id":"us-nm/2-8f-4","jurisdiction":"us-nm","citation":"2-8F-4","heading":"Elections; vacancies.","body":"A. Members of the senate shall be elected for terms of four years.\nB. If a vacancy occurs in the office of senator for any reason, the vacancy shall be filled as follows:\n(1) for a senate district that is situated wholly within the exterior boundaries of a single county, the board of county commissioners of that county shall appoint the senator to fill the vacancy; and\n(2) for a senate district situated within two or more counties:\n(a) the board of county commissioners of each county in the senate district shall submit one name to the governor; and\n(b) the governor shall appoint the senator to fill the vacancy from the list of names so submitted.\nC. All appointments to fill vacancies in the senate shall be for a term ending on December 31 subsequent to the next succeeding general election, at which general election a person shall be elected to fill the remainder of any unexpired term.\nD. An appointment to fill a vacancy made before the general election of 2024 shall be made from the district as it was described in Section 2-8E-1 NMSA 1978, as established by the court in Egolf v. Duran, D-101-CV-2011-02942 (1st Dist. Ct., Judgement and Final Order (State Senate Trial) filed January 25, 2012). On or after the general election of 2024, a vacancy shall be filled by appointment from the district as set out in the 2021 Senate Redistricting Act.","path":["Chapter 2 - Legislative Branch","ARTICLE 8F 2021 Senate Redistricting"],"source_url":"https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18503/index.do","current_through":"2023-06-16","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:02:19Z","sha256":"2ce548e6250b4941cfd13eb947b24343e319b3a1ae31a306caa0fe6d1ff8f164","source_id":"us-nm","stale":false,"prev":"us-nm/2-8f-3","next":"us-nm/2-8f-5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}