When the Dem legislature split the oil patch district NM-2 and moved part of it into ABQ District 1 and the other part into Santa Fe District 3, hard-working oil patch voters were replaced by voters from crime-ridden ABQ's South Valley while heavily Pub Lea County voters were thrown into the same district as Santa Fe radicals and Navajo, Apache and Pueblo Indians.
An update from the NM SOS office has Herrell losing by 1,224 votes.