1972 United States presidential election in New Mexico

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1972 United States presidential election in New Mexico
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  1968 November 7, 1972 1976  
  Richard Nixon presidential portrait (1).jpg George McGovern (D-SD) (3x4-1).jpg
Nominee Richard Nixon George McGovern
Party Republican Democratic
Home state California South Dakota
Running mate Spiro Agnew Sargent Shriver
Electoral vote40
Popular vote235,606141,084
Percentage61.05%36.56%

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County results

President before election

Richard Nixon
Republican

Elected President

Richard Nixon
Republican

The 1972 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 7, 1972. This was the fifteenth Presidential Election which New Mexico participated in. All fifty states plus the District of Columbia, were part of this presidential election. State voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College, who voted for the President and Vice President. South Dakota Senator George McGovern was nominated to run against Nixon, and was defeated in one of the most lopsided elections in United States history. McGovern lost every state except Massachusetts to Nixon. [1]

Contents

New Mexico was won by President Richard Nixon by a 24-point landslide, mirroring the national popular vote margin by a near-perfect amount and making New Mexico 1.3% more Republican than the nation-at-large. McGovern won only two counties: he comfortably won Rio Arriba County by 12.6 percentage points, and also won San Miguel County by 2.5 percentage points. [2] Nixon was the first Republican to carry Grant County since 1928.

The 1972 election remains the last when Santa Fe, Taos or Mora counties provided a Republican majority or plurality, [3] and Nixon won Mora County by a mere thirty votes. At the other extreme, solidly Republican Lea County in the Plains region was won by Nixon by 55.4 percent, and Lincoln County, which had not voted Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1936 landslide, [3] by 55.9 percent.

Primaries

Democratic

1972 New Mexico Democratic Party presidential primary
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 1968June 6, 19721976 
  George McGovern (D-SD) (3x4-1).jpg George Wallace (D-AL) (3x4).jpg Hubert Humphrey in New York, 1968 (3x4 crop).jpg
Candidate George McGovern George Wallace Hubert Humphrey
Home state South Dakota Alabama Minnesota
Popular vote51,01144,84339,768
Percentage33.28%29.25%25.94%

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County Results

George McGovern would defeat Alabama Governor, George Wallace, and previous Democratic nominee, Hubert Humphrey. [4]

DemocraticPrimary June 6, 1972
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic George McGovern 51,011 33.28%
Democratic George Wallace 44,84329.25%
Democratic Hubert Humphrey 39,76825.94%
Democratic Edmund Muskie 6,4114.18%
Democratic Henry M. Jackson 4,2362.76%
Democratic Uncommitted 3,8192.49%
Democratic Shirley Chisholm 3,2052.09%
Total votes153,293 100

Republican

Results

1972 United States presidential election in New Mexico
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Republican
235,606 61.05% +9.20
Democratic 141,08436.56%−3.19
American Independent 8,7672.27%−5.59
Socialist Workers 4740.12%+0.04
Total votes385,931 100.00%
Republican win

Results by county

County [5] Richard Nixon
Republican
George McGovern
Democratic
John G. Schmitz
American Independent
Linda Jenness
Socialist Workers
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %# %
Bernalillo 79,99360.80%48,75337.06%2,6512.02%1650.13%31,24023.74%131,562
Catron 82973.49%27124.02%262.30%20.18%55849.47%1,128
Chaves 11,49370.87%4,29626.49%4152.56%120.07%7,19744.38%16,216
Colfax 2,66357.88%1,85540.32%821.78%10.02%80817.56%4,601
Curry 8,39275.85%2,41621.84%2462.22%100.09%5,97654.01%11,064
De Baca 75271.82%27025.79%242.29%10.10%48246.03%1,047
Dona Ana 14,56259.76%9,41638.64%3671.51%210.09%5,14621.12%24,366
Eddy 9,92164.65%5,04032.84%3682.40%170.11%4,88131.81%15,346
Grant 4,43150.46%4,08146.48%2622.98%70.08%3503.98%8,781
Guadalupe 1,29751.37%1,20247.60%230.91%30.12%953.77%2,525
Harding 52268.68%22028.95%182.37%00.00%30239.73%760
Hidalgo 1,05163.43%56233.92%442.65%00.00%48929.51%1,657
Lea 12,47876.41%3,42921.00%4092.50%150.09%9,04955.41%16,331
Lincoln 2,52877.07%69621.22%521.59%40.12%1,83255.85%3,280
Los Alamos 5,03966.09%2,43531.94%1381.81%120.16%2,60434.15%7,624
Luna 2,95863.25%1,56033.35%1573.36%20.04%1,39829.90%4,677
McKinley 5,36649.74%5,12447.49%2732.53%260.24%2422.25%10,789
Mora 1,16550.26%1,13548.96%150.65%30.13%301.30%2,318
Otero 7,03365.91%2,98127.94%6466.05%100.09%4,05237.97%10,670
Quay 3,22471.30%1,16125.67%1332.94%40.09%2,06345.63%4,522
Rio Arriba 4,35142.68%5,64255.34%1921.88%100.10%-1,291-12.66%10,195
Roosevelt 4,72773.03%1,61224.90%1322.04%20.03%3,11548.13%6,473
San Juan 10,78867.55%4,29626.90%8285.18%580.36%6,49240.65%15,970
San Miguel 4,43447.71%4,66350.18%1751.88%210.23%-229-2.47%9,293
Sandoval 3,50750.25%3,29347.18%1692.42%100.14%2143.07%6,979
Santa Fe 12,21152.53%10,76146.29%2551.10%190.08%1,4506.24%23,246
Sierra 2,07467.47%93430.38%622.02%40.13%1,14037.09%3,074
Socorro 2,65856.19%1,99442.16%721.52%60.13%66414.03%4,730
Taos 3,61750.49%3,47248.46%650.91%100.14%1452.03%7,164
Torrance 1,75864.54%90833.33%562.06%20.07%85031.21%2,724
Union 1,54572.50%49623.28%874.08%30.14%1,04949.22%2,131
Valencia 8,23956.09%6,11041.60%3252.21%140.10%2,12914.49%14,688
Totals235,60661.05%141,08436.56%8,7672.27%4740.12%94,52224.49%385,931

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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