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Gregg Hull appeared in his element, shaking hands and hugging supporters as he circulated through a crowd of revelers Tuesday night at his primary election watch party in Northwest sa国际传媒官网网页入口.

After the results of the Republican primary showed him with a 10-point lead over his second-place rival, Doug Turner, Hull climbed the stage at the Oasis Event Center to the rowdy cheers of some 200 people.

"This fall, we will face Deb Haaland in the general election, and we're going to win," Hull said.

In the Democratic primary on Tuesday, Haaland received 72% of the vote, trouncing her opponent, Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman.

New Mexicans "deserve a real choice, and we're going to give them one," Hull told supporters. "It is a choice between an economy that works for everyone or one that keeps too many New Mexicans in poverty."

Rio Rancho's former three-term mayor, Hull drew support from his hometown to help clinch 47% of the vote statewide in the three-way race against Turner, a New Mexico businessman, and cannabis CEO Duke Rodriguez.

Hull received 79% of the vote in Sandoval County, compared with 12% for Turner and 9% for Rodriguez, according to unofficial returns posted on the New Mexico secretary of state's website. Rio Rancho is Sandoval County's largest city.

The 9,349 votes Hull received in Sandoval County made up about 1-in-6 of the 56,412 votes Hull received statewide. He argues he can replicate his popularity in Rio Rancho to voters statewide.

"My political training and the things that I've learned have been based on a nonpartisan world that comes from working across the lines," Hull said in an interview on Tuesday.

"I think that's what gives me a very large appeal, to not only my Republican base, but it gives me an appeal to the independent base and it gives me an appeal to moderate Democrats that are looking for somebody that can just get the work done," he said.

Hull won big in the sa国际传媒官网网页入口 metro area and north-central New Mexico, including Santa Fe County, said Brian Sanderoff, president of sa国际传媒官网网页入口-based Research & Polling Inc.

Hull won 59% in Bernalillo County, where he received 19,198 votes, or about a third of his total vote tally statewide, according to unofficial returns.

Turner had strong support in virtually all the state's rural, conservative counties, Sanderoff said. Turner won sizable majorities in some rural counties, such as Eddy County (63%), Lea County (60%) and Curry County (53%).

Turner did not receive an endorsement from President Donald Trump, but aligned more closely with Trump than did his two opponents, Sanderoff said.

In the closing month of the campaign, Turner "turned his message more conservative, aligned with Trump policies, that resonated well in the rural conservative areas of state," Sanderoff said. That strategy helped Turner's campaign gain momentum in the closing weeks of the primary, he said.