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Former member of Congress · last served 115th Congress

Official portrait of Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham

Michelle Lujan Grisham

DEMOCRAT U.S. Representative · New MexicoHouse 2013–2019 (NM-1)

Michelle Lujan Grisham was a Democratic U.S. representative from New Mexico, first elected to Congress in 2013.

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79Bills & resolutions sponsored113th–115th Congress (excludes amendments)
1Passed a chamberof 72 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)
0Became law113th–115th Congress
—Broke with partyNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)
—Missed votesNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)
—Pork: own shareFY2024 earmarks: not in office

How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.

Recent votes

No recorded roll-call votes in PORKER’s records. Roll-call records start in 2011.

5 most recent bills

Top bills sponsored

Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.

Elections Rep. Grisham has won

Rep. Grisham has won 3 U.S. House elections (2012–2016). Of the contested races, margins ran from 17.2 to 30.3 points.

010204060Margin of victory, points (axis starts at 0)2012, NM-1: won by 18.3 points2012NM-12014, NM-1: won by 17.2 points20142016, NM-1: won by 30.3 points2016
Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed
Elections won3 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed
Closest win: 17.2 points2014, NM-1
Won an open seat or took one from the other party1 of 3 elections (open seat or changed party)
Seat history, New Mexico’s 1st districtWinners, most recent three: Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) 2012–2016 → Debra A. Haaland (D) 2018–2020 → Melanie A. Stansbury (D) 2022–2024. Elections shown, not terms; special elections not included.

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Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.

How has New Mexico’s 1st district done while Rep. Grisham served?

2013 to 2018 in NM-1: typical household income was about the same after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 2.2 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 2.5 points.

Typical household income · after inflationU.S. $77.6KNM-1 $63.5KNew Mexico $59.1K
NM-1: $63.7K in 2013 → $63.5K in 2018
NM-1 about the sameNew Mexico about the sameU.S. up 10%
Share of people below the poverty lineNew Mexico 19.5%NM-1 17.2%U.S. 13.1%
NM-1: 19.5% in 2013 → 17.2% in 2018
NM-1 down 2.2 pointsNew Mexico down 2.5 pointsU.S. down 2.7 points
Share of workers looking for a jobNew Mexico 6.1%NM-1 5.6%U.S. 4.9%
NM-1: 8.1% in 2013 → 5.6% in 2018
NM-1 down 2.5 pointsNew Mexico down 3.1 pointsU.S. down 3.5 points

Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Teal = district, oxblood = state, grey = U.S.

While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in New Mexico’s 1st district during Grisham’s time representing it (2013 to 2019). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.

One set of district lines. NM-1 was redrawn in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Grisham’s term so far (2013 to 2018) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.

See the full 20-year record →Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates (tables B19013, B17001, B23001) and BLS CPI-U-RS for inflation, retrieved October 18, 2026. “About the same” means the change is inside the 90% margins of error. Who held the seat: Congress.gov member service records, year level.

Official records on bills this member sponsored

115th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 42 bills sponsored.

RecordBillsSource
Bills sponsored42Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement38See the 38 →
With a CBO cost estimate listed0None listed
With a committee report listed0None listed
With a Congress.gov note1See the 1 →
Evidence
How counted
Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 115th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
Fields
cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
PORKER copy refreshed
October 26, 2026 (nightly)

Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.

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Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.