United States presidential elections in New Mexico
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Template:Infobox elections by state Following is a table of United States presidential elections in New Mexico, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1912, New Mexico has participated in every U.S. presidential election. Across its history, Mew Mexico has only missed picking the winner of the nationwide popular vote once, in 1976. New Mexico voted for the same candidate as Nevada in all of its elections except for 2000, when Nevada voted for Bush and New Mexico voted for Gore.
Winners of the state are in bold. The shading refers to the state winner, and not the national winner.
Year | Winner (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Runner-up (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Other national candidates[a] |
Votes | Percent | Electoral Votes |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2020[1] | Joe Biden | 501,459 | 54.29 | Donald Trump | 401,814 | 43.50 | — | 5 | |||
2016[2] | Donald Trump[b] | 319,667 | 40.04 | Hillary Clinton | 385,234 | 48.26 | — | 5 | |||
2012[3] | Barack Obama | 415,335 | 52.99 | Mitt Romney | 335,788 | 42.84 | — | 5 | |||
2008[4] | Barack Obama | 472,422 | 56.91 | John McCain | 346,832 | 41.78 | — | 5 | |||
2004[5] | George W. Bush | 376,930 | 49.84 | John Kerry | 370,942 | 49.05 | — | 5 | |||
2000[6] | George W. Bush[b] | 286,417 | 47.85 | Al Gore | 286,783 | 47.91 | — | 5 | |||
1996[7] | Bill Clinton | 273,495 | 49.18 | Bob Dole | 232,751 | 41.86 | Ross Perot | 32,257 | 5.80 | 5 | |
1992 | Bill Clinton | 261,617 | 45.90 | George H. W. Bush | 212,824 | 37.34 | Ross Perot | 91,895 | 16.12 | 5 | |
1988 | George H. W. Bush | 270,341 | 51.86 | Michael Dukakis | 244,497 | 46.90 | - | 5 | |||
1984 | Ronald Reagan | 307,101 | 59.70 | Walter Mondale | 201,769 | 39.23 | - | 5 | |||
1980 | Ronald Reagan | 250,779 | 54.97 | Jimmy Carter | 167,826 | 36.78 | John B. Anderson | 29,459 | 6.46 | 4 | |
1976 | Jimmy Carter | 201,148 | 48.28 | Gerald Ford | 211,419 | 50.75 | - | 4 | |||
1972 | Richard Nixon | 235,606 | 61.05 | George McGovern | 141,084 | 36.56 | - | 4 | |||
1968 | Richard Nixon | 169,692 | 51.85 | Hubert Humphrey | 130,081 | 39.75 | George Wallace | 25,737 | 7.86 | 4 | |
1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson | 194,017 | 59.22 | Barry Goldwater | 131,838 | 40.24 | - | 4 | |||
1960 | John F. Kennedy | 156,027 | 50.15 | Richard Nixon | 153,733 | 49.41 | - | 4 | |||
1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 146,788 | 57.81 | Adlai Stevenson II | 106,098 | 41.78 | T. Coleman Andrews/ Unpledged Electors[c] |
364 | 0.14 | 4 | |
1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 132,170 | 55.39 | Adlai Stevenson II | 105,661 | 44.28 | - | 4 | |||
1948 | Harry S. Truman | 105,464 | 56.38 | Thomas E. Dewey | 80,303 | 42.93 | Strom Thurmond | - | 4 | ||
1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 81,389 | 53.47 | Thomas E. Dewey | 70,688 | 46.44 | - | 4 | |||
1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 103,699 | 56.59 | Wendell Willkie | 79,315 | 43.28 | - | 3 | |||
1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 106,037 | 62.69 | Alf Landon | 61,727 | 36.50 | - | 3 | |||
1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 95,089 | 62.72 | Herbert Hoover | 54,217 | 35.76 | - | 3 | |||
1928 | Herbert Hoover | 69,645 | 59.01 | Al Smith | 48,211 | 40.85 | - | 3 | |||
1924 | Calvin Coolidge | 54,745 | 48.52 | John W. Davis | 48,542 | 43.02 | Robert M. La Follette | 9,543 | 8.46 | 3 | |
1920 | Warren G. Harding | 57,634 | 54.68 | James M. Cox | 46,668 | 44.27 | Parley P. Christensen | 1,104 | 1.05 | 3 | |
1916 | Woodrow Wilson | 33,527 | 50.20 | Charles E. Hughes | 31,152 | 46.64 | - | 3 | |||
1912 | Woodrow Wilson | 20,437 | 41.39 | Theodore Roosevelt | 8,347 | 16.90 | William H. Taft | 17,733 | 35.91 | 3 |
Notes
- ^ For purposes of these lists, other national candidates are defined as those who won at least one electoral vote, or won at least ten percent of the vote in multiple states.
- ^ a b Won the electoral college while losing the popular vote
- ^ Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina
References
- ^ "Presidential Election Results: Biden Wins". The New York Times. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
- ^ 2016 official Federal Election Commission report.
- ^ 2012 official Federal Election Commission report.
- ^ 2008 official Federal Election Commission report.
- ^ "Federal Elections 2004: Election Results for the U.S. President, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives" (PDF). Federal Elections Commission. May 2005.
- ^ "2000 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
- ^ "1996 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2018-03-05.