Stephanie Garcia Richard from the town in Los Alamos county where the atomic bomb was created won the 2018 New Mexico primary over Garrett Veneklasen.
Stephanie M. Garcia Richard from Los Alamos, New Mexico is an American politician and currently serves as the Commissioner of Public Lands of New Mexico, an executive office created under the New Mexico State Constitution. Los Alamos is a town in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States, that is recognized as the development and creation place of the atomic bombthe primary objective of the Manhattan Project by Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II. In 1943, during World War II, the United States Department of War exercised eminent domain over the Ranch School and all remaining homesteads in the area so that the relatively isolated location could be used for the secretive Manhattan Project, which ultimately developed the world's first nuclear weapons. 2018 New Mexico Primary Elections Stephanie Garcia Richard 65,601 39.5 Garrett VeneKlasen 61,783 37.2 George Munoz 38,770 23.3 
