Albuquerque City Council election

The election might be over, but the City Clerk’s office is still hard at work on it.  Employees are working to tally the official count of Albuquerque’s municipal election results now, counting provisional ballots as well as a small number of hand-tallied ballots to the machine tabulated numbers. That process will be complete within 10 [...]

The unofficial results show that Richard “R.J.” Berry will be the next mayor of Albuquerque, with 186 out of 186 precincts reporting in Albuquerque municipal election.

Richard “RJ” Berry appears to be winning a plurality of the absentee votes.

Will Martin Chavez win a third consecutive term as mayor? Or will Richard Berry or Richard Romero knock him out? City councilors Michael Cadigan and Isaac Benton are up against tough challengers and some say how their elections go will determine how Albuquerque grows in future years. If you’re on pins and needles waiting to learn the answers to who wins and who loses — because aren’t we all political junkies? — check back frequently, because we’ll be updating this page all day and all night.

Earlier today, we reported that Albuquerque City Councilor Don Harris had sent out a piece of campaign mail attacking his challenger in the District 9 race, David Barbour, for being an atheist, saying “[Barbour] is a donor to Atheist organizations and speaker at Atheist events…”
Harris responded to our post with information indicating that Barbour was a member [...]

Political parties are working their get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts in the non-partisan Albuquerque municipal elections. As NMI has observed, the race between incumbent mayor Martin Chavez and former state Senate Pro Tem Richard Romero is looking increasingly like a Democratic primary while the conservative candidate, Richard “RJ” Berry, has been getting some help from the Republican [...]

In a mailer sent out last week, City Councilor Don Harris attacks challenger  David Barbour for being an atheist and political radical, recently moved here from San Francisco, who attends protests “even in foreign countries.”
According to his Web site, Barbour is a retired software engineer and Vietnam vet born in Pueblo, Colo. And the picture on his site? [...]