Citizenship Test Answers for New Mexico
Four of the 128 civics questions depend on where you live. Here is how to answer them if you live in New Mexico.
62. What is the capital of your state?
Answer for New Mexico
Santa Fe
This is the one state-specific answer that does not change. The three below change with elections. Every name on this page is checked each night against the congressional record and, for governors, two independent public records, and a name is left out rather than printed when the sources disagree.
23. Who is one of your state's U.S. senators now?
Answer for New Mexico now
- Ben Ray Luján
- Martin Heinrich
You only need to give one of these names.
New Mexico has two U.S. senators, like every state. You only need to name one of them. Senators are elected to six-year terms, so this answer changes; give the name of a senator serving on the day of your interview.
Look up New Mexico's senators at senate.gov
29. Name your U.S. representative.
Your representative depends on your congressional district, not just your state, so it is different for two people living in the same city. Look it up by ZIP code.
All 3 of New Mexico's representatives, by district
| District | Representative |
|---|---|
| 1 | Melanie A. Stansbury |
| 2 | Gabe Vasquez |
| 3 | Teresa Leger Fernandez |
If you do not know your district, the lookup below finds it from your ZIP code.
Find your representative at house.gov
Residents of territories with nonvoting Delegates or Resident Commissioners may provide the name of that Delegate or Commissioner. Also acceptable is any statement that the territory has no (voting) representatives in Congress.
61. Who is the governor of your state now?
Answer for New Mexico now
Michelle Lujan Grisham
Governors are elected and change, so answer with whoever is serving on the day of your
interview. Your state government's official .gov website is the reliable
place to check.
Background on New Mexico
Santa Fe is New Mexico's capital and the oldest capital city in the United States, founded by Spanish colonists around 1610, more than a century and a half before independence; Albuquerque is the larger city today. New Mexico became the 47th state in 1912, weeks before Arizona. It has 3 congressional districts and 5 electoral votes. The state connects directly to the question asking you to name an American Indian tribe, since Pueblo is one of the accepted answers and the Pueblo peoples have lived in this region continuously for far longer than any European settlement here. The capital is the only one of the four answers on this page that stays put.
This background section is written by US Citizenship Test Practice. It is not part of the USCIS question list, and it names no senator, representative or governor itself: those names change with elections, so they appear only in the answers above, which are checked every night.
The other 124 questions
Everything else on the civics test is the same no matter where you live.