Congressional district · Boundaries of the 119th Congress

New Mexico's 3rd district

New Mexico's 3rd district has 692,971 residents on 52,316 mi² of land. It is represented by Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM-3). Federal contract obligations attributed to it reached $6.2B in FY2026.

Residents
692,971
Land area
52,316 mi²
Counties
18
Representative
Teresa Leger Fernandez
Map of New Mexico's 3rd district within New Mexico

Members for this district

Members who held this seat while these boundaries were in force, newest first.

Senators

The state's senators today, or on the last day of these boundaries for an older plan.

Counties

Share of the district's residents living in each county, and share of the county's residents living in the district (2020 census tracts weighted by their overlap).

  1. Santa Fe County21% of the district · 94% of the county
  2. San Juan County17% of the district · 100% of the county
  3. McKinley County9.2% of the district · 90% of the county
  4. Chaves County8.1% of the district · 87% of the county
  5. Lea County7.1% of the district · 66% of the county
  6. Curry County6.9% of the district · 100% of the county
  7. Rio Arriba County5.8% of the district · 100% of the county
  8. Taos County5.0% of the district · 100% of the county
  9. San Miguel County3.9% of the district · 100% of the county
  10. Sandoval County3.8% of the district · 17% of the county
  11. Los Alamos County2.8% of the district · 100% of the county
  12. Roosevelt County2.7% of the district · 100% of the county
  13. Eddy County1.9% of the district · 22% of the county
  14. Colfax County1.8% of the district · 100% of the county
  15. Quay County1.2% of the district · 100% of the county
  16. Mora County0.6% of the district · 100% of the county
  17. Union County0.6% of the district · 100% of the county
  18. Harding County0.1% of the district · 100% of the county

Federal contracts

Contract obligations attributed to the district by each action's county and its award's ZIP code (land shares through census tracts); an estimate where ZIP codes cross district lines.

Obligations · FY2026
$6.2B
Per resident
$8,952
Rank in New Mexico
1 of 3
Contract actions
4,766
New awards: 1,287

By fiscal year

  1. 3.1BFY2017
  2. 3.1BFY2018
  3. 3.4BFY2019
  4. 3.6BFY2020
  5. 4.9BFY2021
  6. 4.9BFY2022
  7. 5.4BFY2023
  8. 6.1BFY2024
  9. 6.2BFY2025
  10. 6.2BFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of the Interior
  2. Department of Health and Human Services
  3. Department of Agriculture
  4. Forest Service$42.5M0.7%
    Department of Agriculture
  5. Department of Defense
  6. Department of Homeland Security
  7. Department of Defense

Top recipients

  1. 1 award
  2. 2 awards
  3. 1 award
  4. 1 award
  5. 29 awards
  6. 1 award
  7. 2 awards
  8. 62 awards
  9. 58 awards
  10. 1 award

Other boundaries

District lines change between plans; each plan keeps its own page.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • ZIP code (ZCTA) to congressional district crosswalk (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 relationship files (ZCTAs, tracts and congressional districts); shares computed by Analisa · release 2020 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.