Live-updating maps, vote counts, and analysis of the 2021 New Mexico congressional special election from The Washington Post. This election will determine who fills the seat left vacant by now secretary of the interior Deb Haaland.
Taking a page from a Republican playbook that resulted in some unexpected victories in House elections last November, GOP candidate Mark Moores is focusing much of his campaign in Tuesday’s special election for a vacant congressional seat in New Mexico over a surge in crime and the push by some on the left to “defund the police.”