New Mexico Legislature

The **New Mexico Legislature** () is the legislative branch of the state government of New Mexico. It is made up of two parts: New Mexico House of Representatives (lower house) and New Mexico Senate (upper house). Both are currently controlled by the Democratic Party.

### Senate

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### House of Representatives

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### History

|rowspan=2|Session|rowspan=2|Years|rowspan="1000"||colspan=4|House|rowspan="1000"||colspan=4|Senate|rowspan="1000"||rowspan=2|Governor|||||||
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|1st|1912–1914||49||16||**30**|3||24||7||**16**|1|rowspan=2|William W. McDonald|||||
|2nd|1915-1916||49||14||**33**|2||24||7||**16**|1|||||||
|rowspan=2|3rd|rowspan=2|1917-1918|rowspan=2|49|rowspan=2|19|rowspan=2|**30**|rowspan=2|-|rowspan=2|24|rowspan=2|10|rowspan=2|**14**|rowspan=2|-||Ezequiel Cabeza De Baca|
||Washington E. Lindsey|||||||||||||||||||||
|4th|1919-1920||49||15||**34**|-||24||9||**15**|-||Octaviano Larrazolo|||||
|5th|1921-1922||49||15||**34**|-||24||9||**15**|-||Merritt C. Mechem|||||
|6th|1923-1924||49||**33**||16|-||24||9||**15**|-||James F. Hinkle|||||
|7th|1925-1926||49||**28**||21|-||24||11||**13**|-||Arthur T. Hannett|||||
|8th|1927-1928||49||18||**31**|-||24||11||**13**|-|rowspan=2|Richard C. Dillon|||||
|9th|1929-1930||49||12||**37**|-||24||6||**18**||||||||
|10th|1931-1932||49||**28**||21|-||24||8||**16**|-|rowspan=2|Arthur Seligman|||||
|rowspan=2|11th|rowspan=2|1933-1934|rowspan=2|49||**41**||8|-|rowspan=2|24|rowspan=2|**20**|rowspan=2|4|rowspan=2|-||||
||**42**||7|-||Andrew W. Hockenhull||||||||||||||||
|12th|1935-1936||49||**38**||12|-||24||**18**||6|-|rowspan=2|Clyde Tingley|||||
|13th|1937-1938||49||**47**||2|-||24||**23**||1|-|||||||
|14th|1939-1940||49||**42**||7|-||24||**23**||1|-|rowspan=2|John E. Miles|||||
|15th|1941-1942||49||**40**||9|-||24||**21**||3|-|||||||
|16th|1943-1944||49||**33**||16|-||24||**21**||3|-|rowspan=2|John J. Dempsey|||||
|17th|1945-1946||49||**30**||19|-||24||**18**||6|-|||||||
|18th|1947-1948||49||**30**||19|-||24||**18**||6|-|rowspan=2|Thomas J. Mabry|||||
|19th|1949-1950||49||**36**||13|-||24||**19**||5|-|||||||
|20th|1951-1952||55||**46**||9|-||24||**18**||6|-|rowspan=2|Edwin L. Mechem|||||
|21st|1953-1954||55||27||**28**|-||31||**22**||9|-|||||||
|22nd|1955-1956||55||**51**||4|-||32||**23**||9|-||John F. Simms|||||
|23rd|1957-1958||66||**43**||23|-||32||**24**||8|-||Edwin L. Mechem|||||
|24th|1959-1960||66||**60**||6|-||32||**24**||8|-||John Burroughs|||||
|rowspan=2|25th|rowspan=2|1961-1962|rowspan=2|66|rowspan=2|**59**|rowspan=2|7|rowspan=2|-|rowspan=2|32|rowspan=2|**28**|rowspan=2|4|rowspan=2|-||Edwin L. Mechem|
||Tom Bolack|||||||||||||||||||||
|26th|1963-1964||66||**55**||11|-||32||**28**||4|-|rowspan=2|Jack M. Campbell|||||
|27th|1965-1966||77||**59**||18|-||32||**28**||4|-|||||||
|28th|1967-1968||70||**45**||25|-||42||**25**||17|-|rowspan=2|David F. Cargo|||||
|29th|1969-1970||70||**44**||26|-||42||**25**||17|-|||||||
|30th|1971-1972||70||**48**||22|-||42||**28**||14|-|rowspan=3|Bruce King|||||
|rowspan=2|31st|rowspan=2|1973-1974|rowspan=2|70||**51**||19|-|rowspan=2|42|rowspan=2|**30**|rowspan=2|12|rowspan=2|-||||
||**50**||20|-||||||||||||||||||
|rowspan=2|32nd|rowspan=2|1975-1976|rowspan=2|70|rowspan=2|**51**|rowspan=2|19|rowspan=2|-|rowspan=2|42||**29**||13|-|rowspan=3|Jerry Apodaca||
||**30**||12|-||||||||||||||||||
|33rd|1977-1978||70||**48**||22|-||42||**33**||9|-|||||||
|rowspan=2|34th|rowspan=2|1979-1980|rowspan=2|70|rowspan=2|41|rowspan=2|**29**|rowspan=2|-|rowspan=2|42||**33**||9|-|rowspan=4|Bruce King||
||**32**||10|-||||||||||||||||||
|rowspan=2|35th|rowspan=2|1981-1982|rowspan=2|70|rowspan=2|41|rowspan=2|**29**|rowspan=2|-|rowspan=2|42||**22**||20|-||||
||**23**||19|-||||||||||||||||||
|rowspan=2|36th|rowspan=2|1983-1984|rowspan=2|70||**46**||24|-|rowspan=2|42|rowspan=2|**23**|rowspan=2|19|rowspan=2|-|rowspan=5|Toney Anaya||
||**47**||23|-||||||||||||||||||
|rowspan=3|37th|rowspan=3|1985-1986|rowspan=3|70|rowspan=3|43|rowspan=3|**27**|rowspan=3|-|rowspan=2|42||21||**21**|-||||
||20||**22**|-||||||||||||||||||
||42||**20**||22|||||||||||||||||
|rowspan=2|38th|rowspan=2|1987-1988|rowspan=2|70||**47**||23|-||42||**21**||21|-|rowspan=4|Garrey Carruthers|||
||**46**||24|-||42||21||**21**||||||||||||
|rowspan=2|39th|rowspan=2|1989-1990|rowspan=2|70|rowspan=2|**45**|rowspan=2|25|rowspan=2|-|rowspan=2|42||**26**||16|-||||
||**25**||17|-||||||||||||||||||
|40th|1991-1992||70||**49**||21|-||42||**26**||16|-|rowspan=2|Bruce King|||||
|41st|1993-1994||70||**53**||17|-||42||**27**||15|-|||||||
|42nd|1995-1996||70||**46**||24|-||42||**27**||15|-|rowspan=4|Gary Johnson|||||
|43rd|1997-1998||70||**42**||28|-||42||**25**||17|-|||||||
|44th|1999-2000||70||**40**||30|-||42||**25**||17|-|||||||
|45th|2001-2002||70||**42**||28|-||42||24||**18**|-|||||||
|46th|2003-2004||70||**43**||27|-||42||**24**||18|-|rowspan=4|Bill Richardson|||||
|47th|2005-2006||70||**42**||28|-||42||**24**||18|-|||||||
|48th|2007-2008||70||**42**||28|-||42||**24**||18|-|||||||
|49th|2009-2010||70||**45**||25|-||42||27||**15**|-|||||||
|50th|2011-2012||70||**36**||33|1||42||27||**15**|-|rowspan=4|Susana Martinez|||||
|51st|2013-2014||70||**38**||32|-||42||**25**||17|-|||||||
|52nd|2015-2016||70||33||**37**|-||42||**24**||18|-|||||||
|53rd|2017-2018||70||**38**||32|-||42||**26**||16|-|||||||
|54th|2019-2020||70||**46**||24|-||42||**26**||16|||Michelle Lujan Grisham|||||

## Infobox (legislature)

- **name**: The State Legislature of New Mexico
- **native name**: Legislatura de Nuevo México
- **native name lang**: Spanish
- **coa pic**: Seal of the State Legislature of New Mexico.svg
- **coa res**: 200px
- **house type**: Bicameralism, Bicameral
- **houses**: New Mexico Senate, Senate
New Mexico House of Representatives, House of Representatives
- **term limits**: None
- **leader1 type**: Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico, President of the Senate
<small>(Lt. Governor)</small>
- **leader1**: Howie Morales
- **party1**: (Democratic Party of New Mexico, D)
- **leader2 type**: President Pro Tempore, President pro tempore of the Senate
- **leader2**: Mary Kay Papen, Mary Papen
- **party2**: (Democratic Party of New Mexico, D)
- **leader3 type**: Speaker (politics), Speaker of the House
- **leader3**: Brian Egolf
- **party3**: (Democratic Party of New Mexico, D)
- **seats**: 112
- **house1**: New Mexico Senate, Senate
- **house2**: New Mexico House of Representatives, House
- **structure1**: New Mexico_Senate.svg
- **structure1 res**: 250px
- **structure2**: New Mexico House of Representatives partisanship 2019.svg
- **structure2 res**: 250px
- **term length**: New Mexico Senate, Senate: 4 years
New Mexico House of Representatives, House: 2 years
- **salary**: $0/year + per diem
- **seats1 title**: Senators
- **seats1**: 42
- **seats2 title**: State Representatives
- **seats2**: 70
- **voting system1**: First-past-the-post voting, First-past-the-post
- **voting system2**: First-past-the-post voting, First-past-the-post
- **last election1**: 2020 New Mexico State Senate election|
- **last election2**: 2020 New Mexico House of Representatives election|
- **redistricting**: Legislative control
- **motto**: _Crescit eundo_
- **session room**: NewMexicoCapitol SantaFe.jpg
- **session res**: 275px
- **meeting place**: New Mexico State Capitol, State Capitol, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe
- **constitution**: Constitution of New Mexico