1996 United States presidential election in New Mexico

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1996 United States presidential election in New Mexico
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  1992 November 5, 1996 2000  
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Nominee Bill Clinton Bob Dole Ross Perot
Party Democratic Republican Reform
Home state Arkansas Kansas Texas
Running mate Al Gore Jack Kemp Pat Choate
Electoral vote500
Popular vote273,495232,75132,257
Percentage49.18%41.86%5.80%

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County Results

President before election

Bill Clinton
Democratic

Elected President

Bill Clinton
Democratic

The 1996 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 5, 1996. All fifty states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1996 United States presidential election. State voters chose five electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

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New Mexico was won by incumbent United States President Bill Clinton of Arkansas, who was running against Kansas Senator Bob Dole. Clinton ran a second time with former Tennessee Senator Al Gore as Vice President, and Dole ran with former New York Congressman Jack Kemp. [1]

New Mexico weighed in for this election as 1% more Republican than the national average. The presidential election of 1996 was a very multi-partisan election for New Mexico, with nearly ten percent of the electorate voting for third-party candidates, and two third-party candidates receiving more than 1% of the vote. The majority of counties in New Mexico turned out for Clinton, including the highly populated areas of Doña Ana County, Santa Fe County and Albuquerque’s Bernalillo County. In his second bid for the presidency, Ross Perot led the newly reformed Reform Party to gain over five percent of the votes in New Mexico, and to pull in support nationally as the most popular third-party candidate to run for United States Presidency in recent times.

As of the 2020 presidential election , this is the last election in which the following counties voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: Sierra, Eddy, and De Baca. [2]

Results

1996 United States presidential election in New Mexico
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic
273,495 49.18% +3.28
Republican 232,75141.86%+4.52
Reform 32,2575.80%−10.32
Green 13,2182.38%N/A
Libertarian 2,9960.54%+0.26
U.S. Taxpayers' 7130.13%+0.02
Natural Law 6440.12%+0.02
Total votes556,074 100.00%
Democratic win

Results by county

CountyBill Clinton
Democratic
Bob Dole
Republican
Ross Perot [3]
Reform
Ralph Nader [3]
Green
Various candidates [3]
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %# %# %
Bernalillo 88,14048.28%78,83243.19%8,7084.77%5,2692.89%1,5940.87%9,3085.09%182,543
Catron 42327.76%92360.56%1147.48%291.90%352.30%-500-32.80%1,524
Chaves 7,01437.87%9,99153.95%1,2716.86%1230.66%1200.65%-2,977-16.08%18,519
Cibola 4,03058.58%2,24532.63%4887.09%851.24%320.47%1,78525.95%6,880
Colfax 2,65951.47%1,97538.23%4117.96%901.74%310.60%68413.24%5,166
Curry 4,11633.07%7,37859.28%8426.76%610.49%500.40%-3,262-26.21%12,447
De Baca 50946.57%48944.74%867.87%40.37%50.46%201.83%1,093
Dona Ana 22,76652.26%17,54140.26%2,2695.21%6351.46%3530.81%5,22512.00%43,564
Eddy 8,95947.16%8,53444.92%1,2976.83%1010.53%1070.56%4252.24%18,998
Grant 5,86053.62%3,99336.54%7787.12%2051.88%920.84%1,86717.08%10,928
Guadalupe 1,20869.59%43625.12%794.55%90.52%40.23%77244.47%1,736
Harding 26442.86%32152.11%284.55%30.49%00.00%-57-9.25%616
Hidalgo 94348.31%78940.42%20910.71%50.26%60.31%1547.89%1,952
Lea 5,39336.77%7,66152.24%1,4659.99%540.37%930.63%-2,268-15.47%14,666
Lincoln 2,20934.46%3,39652.97%66610.39%781.22%620.97%-1,187-18.51%6,411
Los Alamos 3,98340.10%4,99950.33%5605.64%2472.49%1431.44%-1,016-10.23%9,932
Luna 3,00147.44%2,61641.35%5989.45%631.00%480.76%3856.09%6,326
McKinley 10,12465.21%4,47028.79%6504.19%1961.26%860.55%5,65436.42%15,526
Mora 1,64668.76%56123.43%1315.47%391.63%170.71%1,08545.33%2,394
Otero 5,93836.35%9,06555.49%1,0966.71%1310.80%1070.65%-3,127-19.14%16,337
Quay 1,83043.82%1,94346.53%3779.03%140.34%120.29%-113-2.71%4,176
Rio Arriba 7,96570.46%2,55122.57%4694.15%2682.37%520.46%5,41447.89%11,305
Roosevelt 2,09735.73%3,24555.29%4677.96%280.48%320.55%-1,148-19.56%5,869
San Juan 12,07037.08%17,47853.69%2,3557.23%3991.23%2510.77%-5,408-16.61%32,553
San Miguel 6,99572.51%1,93820.09%4054.20%2502.59%590.61%5,05752.42%9,647
Sandoval 13,08149.46%11,01541.65%1,4825.60%6182.34%2520.95%2,0667.81%26,448
Santa Fe 26,34962.08%10,85725.58%1,8464.35%3,0187.11%3760.89%15,49236.50%42,446
Sierra 2,15444.83%2,14044.54%4318.97%501.04%300.62%140.29%4,805
Socorro 3,37453.02%2,31536.38%4557.15%1352.12%851.34%1,05916.64%6,364
Taos 6,63566.00%2,12621.15%5455.42%6606.57%870.87%4,50944.85%10,053
Torrance 2,07244.51%2,15446.27%3327.13%641.37%330.71%-82-1.76%4,655
Union 51931.45%99560.30%1257.58%50.30%60.36%-476-28.85%1,650
Valencia 9,16949.44%7,77941.95%1,2226.59%2821.52%930.50%1,3907.49%18,545
Totals273,49549.18%232,75141.86%32,2575.80%13,2182.38%4,3530.78%40,7447.32%556,074

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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References

  1. "1996 Presidential General Election Results – New Mexico". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  2. Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  3. 1 2 3 Our Campaigns; NM US President 1996