2016 New Mexico Democratic presidential primary

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2016 New Mexico Democratic presidential primary
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 2012June 7, 2016 (2016-06-07) 2020  
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  Hillary Clinton by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg Bernie Sanders September 2015 cropped.jpg
Candidate Hillary Clinton Bernie Sanders
Home state New York Vermont
Delegate count1816
Popular vote111,334 [1] 104,741
Percentage51.53%48.47%

2016 New Mexico Democratic Presidential Primary election by county.svg
Election results by county.

The 2016 New Mexico Democratic presidential primary was held on June 7 in the U.S. state of New Mexico as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

Contents

The Democratic Party's primaries in California, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota were scheduled to be held the same day, as were the Republican primaries in the same five states, including their own New Mexico primary. Additionally, the Democratic Party held the North Dakota caucuses the same day.

Opinion polling

Poll sourceDate1st2ndOther
Official Primary results [2] June 7, 2016Hillary Clinton
51.5%
Bernie Sanders
48.5%
BWD Global [3]

Margin of error: ± 2.5%
Sample size: 1,455

May 25–26, 2016Hillary Clinton
53%
Bernie Sanders
28%
Others / Undecided
19%
Albuquerque Journal [4]

Margin of error: ± 4.9%
Sample size: 401

February 23–25, 2016Hillary Clinton
47%
Bernie Sanders
33%
Others / Undecided
20%

Results

New Mexico Democratic primary, June 7, 2016
CandidatePopular voteEstimated delegates
CountPercentagePledgedUnpledgedTotal
Hillary Clinton 111,33451.53%18927
Bernie Sanders 104,74148.47%16016
Uncommitted000
Total216,075100%34943
Source: [5] [6]

Results by county

County [7] ClintonVotesSandersVotes
Bernalillo 49.1%36,93750.9%38,247
Catron 38.6%11561.4%183
Chaves 56.6%1,23843.4%950
Cibola 51.5%1,58648.5%1,494
Colfax 56.2%94943.8%740
Curry 46.7%67253.3%768
De Baca 45.7%9654.3%114
Doña Ana 55.7%9,09744.3%7,243
Eddy 53.9%1,56646.1%1,340
Grant 50.1%2,27249.9%2,267
Guadalupe 54.7%39945.3%330
Harding 62.0%7538.0%46
Hidalgo 61.5%51538.5%323
Lea 52.0%70548.0%651
Lincoln 49.4%51550.6%527
Los Alamos 50.4%1,42449.4%1,404
Luna 56.2%91743.8%714
McKinley 59.1%4,76140.9%3,299
Mora 62.1%98637.9%603
Otero 52.7%1,32447.3%1,190
Quay 51.5%47348.5%445
Rio Arriba 60.2%4,91539.8%3,252
Roosevelt 41.8%28158.2%392
Sandoval 51.7%7,44848.3%6,958
San Juan 52.5%3,01947.5%2,735
San Miguel 59.4%3,41840.6%2,341
Santa Fe 50.6%16,08749.4%15,703
Sierra 43.0%40057.0%530
Socorro 50.6%1,05049.4%1,024
Taos 43.2%3,28556.8%4,325
Torrance 49.9%64950.1%651
Union 44.8%15455.2%190
Valencia 52.1%3,12348.0%2,877
Total51.53%111,33448.47%104,741

Analysis

After being projected to win the state by double digits, Clinton managed a 3-point-win in New Mexico, thanks to support from majority non-white areas such as Doña Ana County which contains the city of Las Cruces and is majority Hispanic/Latino, as well as McKinley and San Juan which are largely Native American and include parts of the Navajo Nation and the Apache Nation. Clinton won by a narrow margin in Santa Fe. Sanders, meanwhile, won by a larger margin in Albuquerque, the state's largest city, and thus held Clinton to a very narrow margin statewide.

References

  1. New Mexico State Board of Elections - Official Primary Results
  2. Official Primary Results
  3. "NEW MEXICO DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY LIKELY VOTER SURVEY PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY RACE". BWD Global. May 30, 2016. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
  4. "Journal Poll: Clinton leads among NM Dems".
  5. The Green Papers , New Mexico State Board of Elections
  6. New Mexico Democratic Delegates Allocation
  7. "2016 Election Center". CNN . Retrieved June 4, 2018.