November 4th – SANTA FE – Voters in the capital overwhelmingly returned Mayor Alan Webber to office for a second term of four years. Webber received more than 50% of the vote, which means the city’s ranked voting system did not come into play.
In unofficial results, Webber received nearly 55% of the vote versus Councilor JoAnne Vigil Coppler’s 35%. Environmental engineer Alexis Martinez Johnson followed with 10%. A turnout of around 30% corresponds to 18,161 votes cast in the mayoral election.
“A large part of the credit goes to the campaign team,” said Webber of the result. “I think the campaign focused on listening to the voters and describing the work of the past four years and providing a vision for the next four years.”
“I think it’s a strong positive mandate,” Webber said in a telephone interview on Wednesday. “We’re moving in the right direction. We want to keep going.”
Only one out of four council races was close. In the District 3 race, incumbent Roman “Tiger” Abeyta lost to Lee A. Garcia. Garcia received 53% of the vote.
Incumbent Signe I. Lindell was able to prevail against Joe Hoback, Roger Carson and Brian Gutierrez. Lindell had nearly 61% of the vote in the District 1 contest.
In District 4, Amanda Chavez was able to easily prevail against Rebecca A. Romero with 75% of the vote.
Incumbent Carol Romero-Wirth ran unopposed for the seat in District 2.
In District 4, an open seat after Vigil Coppler voted to run for mayor, Amanda Chavez led Rebecca A. Romero to the top with 75% of the vote.
The city of Santa Fe uses a ranked voting system where voters rate their preferences. If no candidate wins a majority, the candidate with the fewest first votes is eliminated and the process is repeated until a candidate receives a majority of the votes.
Two incumbents ran unanimously for the Santa Fe Public School Board: Kate I. Noble in District 3 and Sascha Nicole Guinn Anderson in District 5.
By a wide margin, voters approved a general declaration of commitment from the Santa Fe Public Schools for the improvement of school buildings and the continuation of the Santa Fe Public Schools building tax of USD 1.50 per USD 1,000 net tax value, including for school improvements. The GO Bond measure received a yes vote of 79% of the electorate, and the building tax was approved with 73% of the vote.
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