Albuquerque, New Mexico
| Albuquerque, New Mexico | |
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| General information | |
Mayor of Albuquerque
Tim Keller | |
| Last mayoral election: | 2021 |
| Next mayoral election: | 2025 |
| Last city council election: | 2023 |
| Next city council election: | 2025 |
| City council seats: | 9 |
| City website | |
| Composition data (2019) | |
| Population: | 559,374 |
| Race: | White 73.9% African American 3.3% Asian 2.9% Native American 4.7% Pacific Islander 0.1% Two or more 4.4% |
| Ethnicity: | Hispanic 49.2% |
| Median household income: | $52,911 |
| High school graduation rate: | 89.7% |
| College graduation rate: | 35.2% |
| Related Albuquerque offices | |
| New Mexico Congressional Delegation New Mexico State Legislature New Mexico state executive offices | |
Albuquerque is a city in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The city's population was 564,559 as of 2020, according to the United States Census Bureau.
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City government
- See also: Mayor-council government
The city of Albuquerque utilizes a strong mayor and city council system. In this form of municipal government, the city council serves as the city's primary legislative body while the mayor serves as the city's chief executive.
Mayor
The mayor serves as the city's chief executive and is responsible for proposing a budget, signing legislation into law, appointing departmental directors, and overseeing the city's day-to-day operations. The mayor also represents the city on the state, national, and international levels. The current Mayor of Albuquerque is Tim Keller (D). Keller assumed office in 2017.
City council
The Albuquerque City Council is the city's primary legislative body. It is responsible for adopting the city budget, approving mayoral appointees, levying taxes, and making or amending city laws, policies, and ordinances.[1]
The Albuquerque City Council has nine members. Each member is elected by one of the city's nine districts.[1]
The widget below automatically displays information about city council meetings. The topic list contains a sampling of keywords that Voterheads, a local government monitoring service, found in each meeting agenda. Click the meeting link to see more info and the full agenda:
Other elected officials
Ballotpedia does not cover any additional city officials in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Mayoral partisanship
Albuquerque has a Democratic mayor. As of June 2024, 63 mayors in the largest 100 cities by population are affiliated with the Democratic Party, 26 are affiliated with the Republican Party, one is affiliated with the Libertarian Party, four are independents, four identify as nonpartisan or unaffiliated, and two mayors' affiliations are unknown. While most mayoral elections in the 100 largest cities are nonpartisan, most officeholders are affiliated with a political party. Click here for a list of the 100 largest cities' mayors and their partisan affiliations.
Elections
2023
The city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, held general elections for city council on November 7, 2023. The filing deadline for this election was August 29, 2023.
2021
The city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, held general elections for mayor and city council on November 2, 2021. If necessary, a runoff election was held on December 7, 2021.[2]
Mayoral filing deadline: The filing deadline for publicly funded candidates in this election was June 19, 2021. The filing deadline for privately funded candidates in this election was August 10, 2021. The Bernalillo County Clerk's office certified the mayoral election ballot following the declaration of candidacy day on August 24, 2021.[3]
City council filing deadline: The filing deadline for publicly funded candidates in this election was July 5, 2021. The filing deadline for privately funded candidates in this election was August 24, 2021.
2019
The city held nonpartisan general elections for city council districts 2, 4, 6, and 8 on November 5, 2019. The filing deadline for this election was August 27, 2019.
2017
The city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, held elections for mayor and city council on October 3, 2017. The filing deadline for mayoral candidates was March 31, 2017, and the filing deadline for city council candidates was May 31, 2017.[4]
2015
The city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, held elections for city council on October 6, 2015. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was May 31, 2015. Four of the nine city council seats were up for election.[5]
Incumbents Isaac Benton and Trudy Jones were unopposed for re-election to District 2 and District 8, respectively. District 4 incumbent Brad Winter defeated challenger Israel Chavez. The race to replace Rey Garduño in District 6 included Patrick Davis, Samuel Kerwin and Hess "Hessito" Yntema. Davis defeated Kerwin and Yntema for the open seat.
Census information
The table below shows demographic information about the city.
| Demographic Data for Albuquerque | |
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| Albuquerque | |
| Population | 564,559 |
| Land area (sq mi) | 187 |
| Race and ethnicity** | |
| White | 60.6% |
| Black/African American | 3.2% |
| Asian | 3.1% |
| Native American | 4.8% |
| Pacific Islander | 0.1% |
| Two or more | 18.1% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 49.8% |
| Education | |
| High school graduation rate | 90.7% |
| College graduation rate | 37.8% |
| Income | |
| Median household income | $61,503 |
| Persons below poverty level | 11.9% |
| Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2020). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2017-2022). | |
| **Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here. | |
Budget
The city's budget process operates by fiscal years running from July 1 to June 30 of the next year. The responsibility for drafting a budget falls to the mayor, who must propose a budget to the city council by April 1 each year. The council must then approve or amend the budget. The council also holds hearings to allow for public input in the budget process. The city's budget is composed of two parts, a financial plan and a performance plan.[6]
| “ | The financial plan is organized by fund, department, and program strategy. Funds are groupings of related accounts that are used to maintain control over resources that have been segregated for specific activities. The performance plan is organized by Goal, desired community condition, and program strategy. These goals are adopted by the Mayor and City Council every 5 years, after significant community input. A goal is a long term result that is further defined by desired community conditions that would exist if the goal were achieved. Desired Conditions are the focus of indicators of progress, formulated and published every two years by a citizen commission, the Indicators Progress Commission.[6][7] | ” |
Fiscally standardized cities data
The fiscally standardized cities (FiSC) data below was compiled by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy to make municipal budgets comparable across cities in the United States.[8]
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FiSCs are constructed by adding revenues and expenditures of each central city municipal government to a portion of the revenues and expenditures of overlying governments, including counties, independent school districts, and special districts. The allocations to FiSCs are estimates of the revenues collected from and services provided to central city residents and businesses by these overlying independent governments. Thus FiSCs provides a full picture of revenues raised from city residents and businesses and spending on their behalf, whether done by the city government or a separate overlying government.[7] |
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| —Lincoln Institute of Land Policy[9] | ||
The tables below show estimated finances within city limits. As such, the revenue and expenses listed may differ from the actual city budget.
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Historical total revenue and expenditure
To see the historical total revenue or expenditures as a rounded amount in this city, hover over the bars.[8]
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Contact information
Mayor's office
PO Box 1293
Albuquerque, NM 87103
Phone: 505-768-3000
City Clerk's office
P.O. Box 1293
Albuquerque, NM 87103
Phone: 505-924-3650
Click here for city council contact information.
Ballot measures
The city of Albuquerque is in Bernalillo County. A list of ballot measures in Bernalillo County is available here.
Noteworthy events
2020: Events and activity following the death of George Floyd
During the weekend of May 29-31, 2020, demonstrations and protests took place in cities nationwide, including Albuquerque, following the death of George Floyd. Events in Albuquerque, New Mexico began on Thursday, May 28, 2020, with a demonstration at the intersection of Central Ave. and Wyoming Blvd.[10] No curfews were issued. The national guard was not deployed.
2015: Study on city's nondiscrimination laws
In July 2015, the Movement Advancement Project described Albuquerque, New Mexico, as a city or county that prohibited discrimination in employment on the basis of gender identity via ordinances that apply to public and private employers. At that time, a total of 71 of America's largest 100 cities prohibited private employers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, while 69 of those cities also prohibited discrimination based on gender identity. This did not include those jurisdictions that prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity for government employees.[11]
Nondiscrimination laws can cover a variety of areas, including public employment, private employment, housing, and public accommodations. Such laws may be enacted at the state, county, or city level.
See also
- Cities in New Mexico
- Bernalillo County, New Mexico
- Largest cities in the United States by population
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 City of Albuquerque, "Council," accessed October 21, 2014
- ↑ New Mexico Secretary of State, "Proclamation," accessed August 25, 2021
- ↑ City of Albuquerque, "Candidate Calendar for the 2021 Regular Local Election," accessed July 13, 2021
- ↑ City of Albuquerque, "2017 Election Calendar for Candidates," accessed May 7, 2017
- ↑ City of Albuquerque, "2015 Municipal Election Calendar," accessed May 19, 2015
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 City of Albuquerque, "Budget," accessed August 23, 2023
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, "Fiscally Standardized Cities database," accessed August 23, 2023
- ↑ Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, "Fiscally Standardized Cities," accessed August 23, 2023
- ↑ KOB 4, "People in Albuquerque join nationwide protests over death of George Floyd," May 28, 2020
- ↑ Movement Advancement Project, "Local Employment Non-Discrimination Ordinances," accessed July 7, 2015
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