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Elections in New Mexico |
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The 2016 United States presidential election in New Mexico was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. New Mexico voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her running mate Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. New Mexico has five electoral votes in the Electoral College. [2]
Clinton won the state of New Mexico with a plurality, by a margin of 8.2 percentage points. The state had long been considered leaning Democratic, or a state Clinton would win, due to its large population of Hispanic/Latino and Native American voters. Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson achieved 9% in his home state, his best performance of any state, and the Libertarian Party's best performance in any single state since Ed Clark received 11.66% of the vote in Alaska in 1980. [3] Johnson's result was also the best result for a third party or independent candidate in New Mexico since Ross Perot's campaign in 1992.
This is the third time since 1912, when New Mexico attained statehood, that the state voted for a candidate who did not win the Electoral College, the other instances being 1976 and 2000. However, in this election and in 2000, the state did vote for the winner of the popular vote. Trump became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Los Alamos County since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, as well as the first to do so without carrying Sandoval County since Richard Nixon in 1968.
Four candidates appeared on the Democratic Party (United States) presidential primary ballot:
New Mexico Democratic primary, June 7, 2016 | |||||
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Candidate | Popular vote | Estimated delegates | |||
Count | Percentage | Pledged | Unpledged | Total | |
Hillary Clinton | 111,334 | 51.53% | 18 | 9 | 27 |
Bernie Sanders | 104,741 | 48.47% | 16 | 0 | 16 |
Uncommitted | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 216,075 | 100% | 34 | 9 | 43 |
Source: The Green Papers , New Mexico State Board of Elections, New Mexico Democratic Delegates Allocation |
Twelve candidates appeared on the Republican presidential primary ballot:
Donald Trump, the only candidate with an active campaign, won every delegate from New Mexico.
Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Actual delegate count | ||
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Bound | Unbound | Total | |||
Donald Trump | 73,908 | 70.64% | 24 | 0 | 24 |
Ted Cruz (withdrawn) | 13,925 | 13.31% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
John Kasich (withdrawn) | 7,925 | 7.57% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ben Carson (withdrawn) | 3,830 | 3.66% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jeb Bush (withdrawn) | 3,531 | 3.37% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Carly Fiorina (withdrawn) | 1,508 | 1.44% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unprojected delegates: | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Total: | 104,627 | 100.00% | 24 | 0 | 24 |
Source: The Green Papers |
Albuquerque Journal October 2, 2016 [4]
Albuquerque Journal November 5, 2016 [5]
Clinton won every pre-election poll conducted. Her margin of victory varied from 2 points to 13 points. The last poll showed Clinton ahead of Trump 46% to 44%, while the RealClearPolitics average of the last three had Clinton leading Trump 45.3% to 40.3% on the day of the election, with Gary Johnson at 9.3% and Green Party candidate Jill Stein at 2.3%. [6] Johnson's highest level of support was 25% in a Washington Post-SurveyMonkey poll in early September. [7]
Source | Ranking | As of |
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Los Angeles Times [8] | Safe D | November 6, 2016 |
CNN [9] | Safe D | November 4, 2016 |
Cook Political Report [10] | Likely D | November 7, 2016 |
Electoral-vote.com [11] | Lean D | November 8, 2016 |
Rothenberg Political Report [12] | Safe D | November 7, 2016 |
Sabato's Crystal Ball [13] | Likely D | November 7, 2016 |
RealClearPolitics [14] | Tossup | November 8, 2016 |
Fox News [15] | Lean D | November 7, 2016 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Democratic | 385,234 | 48.26% | −4.73 | ||
Republican | 319,667 | 40.04% | −2.80 | ||
Libertarian | 74,541 | 9.34% | +5.79 | ||
Green | 9,879 | 1.24% | +0.90 | ||
Better for America |
| 5,825 | 0.73% | N/A | |
Constitution |
| 1,514 | 0.19% | +0.06 | |
Socialism and Liberation | 1,184 | 0.15% | N/A | ||
American Delta | 475 | 0.06% | N/A | ||
Total votes | 798,319 | 100.00% | |||
Democratic win |
County | Hillary Clinton Democratic | Donald Trump Republican | Gary Johnson Libertarian | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Bernalillo | 143,417 | 52.22% | 94,698 | 34.48% | 29,682 | 10.81% | 6,865 | 2.50% | 48,719 | 17.74% | 274,662 |
Catron | 427 | 20.84% | 1,464 | 71.45% | 111 | 5.42% | 47 | 2.29% | -1,037 | -50.61% | 2,049 |
Chaves | 5,534 | 27.30% | 12,872 | 63.50% | 1,609 | 7.94% | 256 | 1.26% | -7,338 | -36.20% | 20,271 |
Cibola | 3,741 | 46.40% | 3,195 | 39.63% | 970 | 12.03% | 157 | 1.95% | 546 | 6.77% | 8,063 |
Colfax | 2,129 | 39.93% | 2,585 | 48.48% | 527 | 9.88% | 91 | 1.71% | -456 | -8.55% | 5,332 |
Curry | 3,121 | 23.34% | 9,035 | 67.58% | 973 | 7.28% | 241 | 1.80% | -5,914 | -44.24% | 13,370 |
De Baca | 193 | 21.21% | 620 | 68.13% | 89 | 9.78% | 8 | 0.88% | -427 | -46.92% | 910 |
Dona Ana | 37,947 | 53.71% | 25,374 | 35.92% | 5,471 | 7.74% | 1,856 | 2.63% | 12,573 | 17.79% | 70,648 |
Eddy | 5,033 | 25.59% | 13,147 | 66.85% | 1,275 | 6.48% | 212 | 1.08% | -8,114 | -41.26% | 19,667 |
Grant | 6,276 | 48.99% | 5,288 | 41.28% | 899 | 7.02% | 348 | 2.72% | 988 | 7.71% | 12,811 |
Guadalupe | 970 | 53.09% | 595 | 32.57% | 238 | 13.03% | 24 | 1.31% | 375 | 20.52% | 1,827 |
Harding | 156 | 29.60% | 311 | 59.01% | 55 | 10.44% | 5 | 0.95% | -155 | -29.41% | 527 |
Hidalgo | 784 | 41.88% | 910 | 48.61% | 137 | 7.32% | 41 | 2.19% | -126 | -6.73% | 1,872 |
Lea | 3,930 | 22.19% | 12,495 | 70.55% | 1,098 | 6.20% | 189 | 1.07% | -8,565 | -48.36% | 17,712 |
Lincoln | 2,331 | 26.19% | 5,896 | 66.23% | 560 | 6.29% | 115 | 1.29% | -3,565 | -40.04% | 8,902 |
Los Alamos | 5,562 | 51.10% | 3,359 | 30.86% | 1,512 | 13.89% | 452 | 4.15% | 2,203 | 20.24% | 10,885 |
Luna | 3,195 | 43.80% | 3,478 | 47.68% | 481 | 6.59% | 141 | 1.93% | -283 | -3.88% | 7,295 |
McKinley | 13,576 | 62.55% | 5,104 | 23.52% | 2,412 | 11.11% | 611 | 2.82% | 8,472 | 39.03% | 21,703 |
Mora | 1,536 | 62.93% | 665 | 27.24% | 194 | 7.95% | 46 | 1.88% | 871 | 35.69% | 2,441 |
Otero | 6,124 | 30.53% | 11,887 | 59.26% | 1,613 | 8.04% | 436 | 2.17% | -5,763 | -28.73% | 20,060 |
Quay | 1,017 | 28.47% | 2,212 | 61.93% | 299 | 8.37% | 44 | 1.23% | -1,195 | -33.46% | 3,572 |
Rio Arriba | 9,592 | 64.47% | 3,599 | 24.19% | 1,425 | 9.58% | 262 | 1.76% | 5,993 | 40.28% | 14,878 |
Roosevelt | 1,454 | 24.44% | 3,884 | 65.28% | 482 | 8.10% | 130 | 2.18% | -2,430 | -40.84% | 5,950 |
San Juan | 12,865 | 27.90% | 27,946 | 60.61% | 4,200 | 9.11% | 1099 | 2.38% | -15,081 | -32.71% | 46,110 |
San Miguel | 7,285 | 67.76% | 2,313 | 21.51% | 915 | 8.61% | 238 | 2.21% | 4,972 | 46.25% | 10,751 |
Sandoval | 27,707 | 44.91% | 25,905 | 41.99% | 6,657 | 10.79% | 1,421 | 2.30% | 1,802 | 2.92% | 61,690 |
Santa Fe | 50,793 | 71.10% | 14,332 | 20.06% | 4,362 | 6.11% | 1,947 | 2.73% | 36,461 | 51.04% | 71,434 |
Sierra | 1,612 | 31.11% | 3,010 | 58.10% | 442 | 8.53% | 117 | 2.26% | -1,398 | -26.99% | 5,181 |
Socorro | 3,313 | 48.24% | 2,616 | 38.09% | 802 | 11.68% | 137 | 1.99% | 697 | 10.15% | 6,868 |
Taos | 10,668 | 69.91% | 2,727 | 17.87% | 1,179 | 7.73% | 686 | 4.50% | 7,941 | 52.04% | 15,260 |
Torrance | 1,785 | 28.23% | 3,714 | 58.73% | 692 | 10.94% | 133 | 2.10% | -1,929 | -30.50% | 6,324 |
Union | 320 | 18.80% | 1,216 | 71.45% | 134 | 7.87% | 32 | 1.88% | -896 | -52.65% | 1,702 |
Valencia | 10,841 | 39.29% | 13,215 | 47.89% | 3,046 | 11.04% | 490 | 1.78% | -2,374 | -8.60% | 27,592 |
Total | 385,234 | 48.26% | 319,667 | 40.04% | 74,541 | 9.34% | 18,877 | 2.36% | 65,567 | 8.22% | 798,319 |
Clinton won 2 of 3 congressional districts. [18]
District | Trump | Clinton | Representative |
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1st | 35% | 52% | Michelle Lujan Grisham |
2nd | 50% | 40% | Steve Pearce |
3rd | 37% | 52% | Ben Ray Luján |
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