Democratic candidate defeated Republican Gregg Hull, businessman and longtime mayor of Rio Rancho

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Deb Haaland, the former interior secretary under Joe Biden, has been elected governor of New Mexico and will become the first Native American woman to govern a US state.

Haaland, a Democrat, defeated her Republican opponent Gregg Hull, 60, a businessman and the longtime mayor of the city of Rio Rancho.

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© Photograph: Sam Wasson/Getty Images for Indigenous House

© Photograph: Sam Wasson/Getty Images for Indigenous House

© Photograph: Sam Wasson/Getty Images for Indigenous House

The former congresswoman and interior secretary pledged to resist the Trump administration. She will be the nation’s first female Native American governor.

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