1934 New Mexico gubernatorial election

1934 New Mexico gubernatorial election

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Nominee Clyde Tingley Jaffa Miller Party Democratic Republican Popular vote 78,390 71,899 Percentage 51.90% 47.60%

County results Tingley:      50–60%     60–70%     70–80% Miller:      50-60%     60-70%

Governor before election Andrew W. Hockenhull Democratic Elected Governor Clyde Tingley Democratic

The 1934 New Mexico gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 1934, in order to elect the Governor of New Mexico. Incumbent Democrat Andrew W. Hockenhull, who had succeeded to the governorship in 1933 following the death of Arthur Seligman, did not run for election to a full term.

General election

Results

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Clyde Tingley	78,390	51.90%	−2.92%
	Republican	Jaffa Miller	71,899	47.60%	+3.41%
	Socialist	E. R. Frost	634 [a]	0.42%	−0.27%
	Communist	Philip Howe	132	0.09%	+0.01%
Majority			6,491	4.30%
Total votes			151,055	100.00%
	Democratic hold		Swing	-6.33%

Results by county

County	Clyde Tingley Democratic		Jaffa Miller Republican		E. R. Frost Socialist		Philip Howe Communist		Margin		Total votes cast
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Bernalillo	10,599	56.67%	8,076	43.18%	17	0.09%	10	0.05%	2,523	13.49%	18,702
Catron	1,057	53.04%	917	46.01%	15	0.75%	4	0.20%	140	7.02%	1,993
Chaves	3,029	55.41%	2,416	44.19%	15	0.27%	7	0.13%	613	11.21%	5,467
Colfax	3,851	52.09%	3,503	47.38%	18	0.24%	21	0.28%	348	4.71%	7,393
Curry	3,287	68.07%	1,455	30.13%	81	1.68%	6	0.12%	1,832	37.94%	4,829
De Baca	642	51.48%	599	48.04%	6	0.48%	0	0.00%	43	3.45%	1,247
Doña Ana	3,789	50.75%	3,607	48.31%	68	0.91%	2	0.03%	182	2.44%	7,466
Eddy	2,722	70.76%	1,108	28.80%	17	0.44%	0	0.00%	1,614	41.95%	3,847
Grant	2,283	53.78%	1,951	45.96%	7	0.16%	4	0.09%	332	7.82%	4,245
Guadalupe	1,742	48.04%	1,882	51.90%	2	0.06%	0	0.00%	-140	-3.86%	3,626
Harding	1,093	46.04%	1,266	53.33%	15	0.63%	0	0.00%	-173	-7.29%	2,374
Hidalgo	884	63.32%	509	36.46%	3	0.21%	0	0.00%	375	26.86%	1,396
Lea	1,734	75.33%	520	22.59%	46	2.00%	2	0.09%	1,214	52.74%	2,302
Lincoln	1,719	48.49%	1,804	50.89%	13	0.37%	9	0.25%	-85	-2.40%	3,545
Luna	1,137	51.42%	1,061	47.99%	10	0.45%	3	0.14%	76	3.44%	2,211
McKinley	1,925	54.44%	1,572	44.46%	1	0.03%	38	1.07%	353	9.98%	3,536
Mora	2,241	49.42%	2,294	50.58%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	-53	-1.17%	4,535
Otero	1,514	51.80%	1,385	47.38%	24	0.82%	0	0.00%	129	4.41%	2,923
Quay	2,190	54.97%	1,779	44.65%	13	0.33%	2	0.05%	411	10.32%	3,984
Rio Arriba	4,482	52.89%	3,991	47.10%	0	0.00%	1	0.01%	491	5.79%	8,474
Roosevelt	2,127	71.52%	706	23.74%	137	4.61%	4	0.13%	1,421	47.78%	2,974
San Juan	1,179	46.22%	1,325	51.94%	45	1.76%	2	0.08%	-146	-5.72%	2,551
San Miguel	3,790	35.12%	6,994	64.81%	2	0.02%	5	0.05%	-3,204	-29.69%	10,791
Sandoval	1,872	48.55%	1,980	51.35%	4	0.10%	0	0.00%	-108	-2.80%	3,856
Santa Fe	5,075	50.68%	4,931	49.24%	4	0.04%	4	0.04%	144	1.44%	10,014
Sierra	1,029	46.50%	1,157	52.28%	25	1.13%	2	0.09%	-128	-5.78%	2,213
Socorro	2,444	54.23%	2,060	45.71%	1	0.02%	2	0.04%	384	8.52%	4,507
Taos	2,671	44.35%	3,338	55.43%	11	0.18%	2	0.03%	-667	-11.08%	6,022
Torrance	2,119	47.83%	2,287	51.63%	24	0.54%	0	0.00%	-168	-3.79%	4,430
Union	2,184	51.46%	2,045	48.19%	14	0.33%	1	0.02%	139	3.28%	4,244
Valencia	1,980	36.93%	3,381	63.05%	0	0.00%	1	0.02%	-1,401	-26.13%	5,362
Total	78,390	51.90%	71,899	47.60%	634 [a]	0.42%	132	0.09%	6,491	4.30%	151,059

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

• Colfax

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

• Lincoln
• Mora
• San Juan
• Sierra
• Taos

Notes

1. The county figures for Frost add up to 638. The canvass printed in the 1935-36 Blue Book contains a number of misprints in every race, but these cannot be reconciled because the State Archives does not have the original handwritten canvass. Trying to use the semi-official precinct data in the Blue Book does not reconcile the numbers either.

References

1. New Mexico Secretary of State. The New Mexico Blue Book State Official Register 1935-1936. Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2. New Mexico Secretary of State. New Mexico Election Returns 1911-1969. Santa Fe, New Mexico.