United States presidential elections in New Mexico

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Presidential elections in New Mexico
New Mexico in United States.svg
Number of elections28
Voted Democratic16
Voted Republican12
Voted other0
Voted for winning candidate25
Voted for losing candidate3

Since New Mexico's admission to the Union in January 1912, [1] it has participated in 28 United States presidential elections. In the 1912 presidential election, Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party's nominee, received the highest vote share (17.1%) ever won by a third party candidate in New Mexico. [2] In the 1932 presidential election, Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt won New Mexico, defeating Republican Herbert Hoover by 26.96%, [3] which remains the largest ever margin of victory in the state's history. In the 2000 presidential election, Democrat Al Gore won New Mexico, defeating Republican George W. Bush by a margin of just 0.06% (366 votes). [4]

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Up to the 2016 presidential election, New Mexico has been a leading indicator of election trends with a success rate of 88.9%; [5] the winner in New Mexico has won the presidency 25 out of 28 times, except in the 1976, 2000, and 2016 presidential elections. [6] As the Electoral College winner lost the popular vote in both 2000 and 2016, New Mexico has aligned with the national popular vote in every election since 1980.

New Mexico is a signatory of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an interstate compact in which signatories award all of their electoral votes to the winner of the national-level popular vote in a presidential election, even if another candidate won an individual signatory's popular vote. As of 2021, it has not yet gone into force. [7]

Presidential elections

Key for parties
   Communist Party USA – (CPUSA)
   Constitution Party – (C)
   Democratic Party – (D)
   Dixiecrat Party – (DI)
   Farmer–Labor Party – (FL)
   Green Party – (G)
   Libertarian Party – (LI)
   Prohibition Party – (PRO)
   Progressive Party (1912) – (PR-1912)
   Progressive Party (1924) – (PR-1924)
   Reform Party – (RE)
   Republican Party – (R)
   Union Party – (U)

Note A double dagger () indicates the national winner.

Presidential elections in New Mexico from 1912 to present
YearWinnerRunner-upOther candidate [lower-alpha 1] EVRef.
CandidateVotes%CandidateVotes%CandidateVotes%
Woodrow Wilson (D)20,437 William Howard Taft (R)17,164 Theodore Roosevelt (PR-1912)8,3473
Woodrow Wilson (D)33,693 Charles Evans Hughes (R)31,097 Allan L. Benson (S)1,9773
Warren G. Harding (R)57,634 James M. Cox (D)46,668 Parley P. Christensen (FL)1,1043
Calvin Coolidge (R)54,745 John W. Davis (D)48,542 Robert M. La Follette (PR-1924)9,5433
Herbert Hoover (R)69,708 Al Smith (D)48,211 William Z. Foster (CPUSA)1583
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)95,089 Herbert Hoover (R)54,217 Norman Thomas (S)1,7763
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)106,037 Alf Landon (R)61,727 William Lemke (U)9243
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)103,699 Wendell Willkie (R)79,315 Norman Thomas (S)1443
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)81,389 Thomas E. Dewey (R)70,688 Claude A. Watson (PRO)1484
Harry S. Truman (D)105,464 Thomas E. Dewey (R)80,303 Strom Thurmond (DI)1,0374
Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)132,170 Adlai Stevenson (D)105,661 Stuart Hamblen (PRO)2974
Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)146,788 Adlai Stevenson (D)106,098 T. Coleman Andrews (C)3644
John F. Kennedy (D)156,027 Richard Nixon (R)153,733 Eric Hass (SLP)5704
Lyndon B. Johnson (D)194,015 Barry Goldwater (R)131,838 Eric Hass (SLP)1,2174
Richard Nixon (R)169,692 Hubert Humphrey (D)130,081 George Wallace (AI)25,7374
Richard Nixon (R)235,606 George McGovern (D)141,084 John G. Schmitz (AI)8,7674
Gerald Ford (R)211,419 Jimmy Carter (D)201,148 Peter Camejo (SWP)2,4624
Ronald Reagan (R)250,779 Jimmy Carter (D)167,826 John B. Anderson (I)29,4594
Ronald Reagan (R)307,101 Walter Mondale (D)201,769 David Bergland (LI)4,4595
George H. W. Bush (R)270,341 Michael Dukakis (D)244,497 Ron Paul (LI)3,2685
Bill Clinton (D)261,617 George H. W. Bush (R)212,824 Ross Perot (I)91,8955
Bill Clinton (D)273,495 Bob Dole (R)232,751 Ross Perot (RE)32,2575
Al Gore (D)286,783 George W. Bush (R)286,417 Ralph Nader (G)21,2515
George W. Bush (R)376,930 John Kerry (D)370,942 Ralph Nader (I)4,0535
Barack Obama (D)472,422 John McCain (R)346,832 Ralph Nader (I)5,3275
Barack Obama (D)415,335 Mitt Romney (R)335,788 Gary Johnson (LI)27,7885
Hillary Clinton (D)385,234 Donald Trump (R)319,667 Gary Johnson (LI)74,5415
Joe Biden (D)501,614 Donald Trump (R)401,894 Jo Jorgensen (LI)12,5855

Graph

The following graph shows the margin of victory of the Democratic and Republican Parties in the 28 presidential elections New Mexico participated. Value above the origin point on the Y-axis indicated Democratic Party's margin of victory; values below the origin point indicates Republican Party's margin of victory.

See also

Notes

  1. For purposes of these lists, other candidates are defined as those who were in third place in New Mexico.

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