# United States presidential elections in New Mexico

Since New Mexico's admission to the Union in January 1912, it has participated in 29 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. In the 1932 presidential election, Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt won New Mexico, defeating Republican Herbert Hoover by 26.96%, 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).
Up to the 2024 presidential election, New Mexico has been a leading indicator of election trends with a success rate of 86.2%; the winner in New Mexico has won the presidency 25 out of 29 times, except in the 1976, 2000, 2016, 2024 presidential elections. 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 except 1976 and 2024 since its admission to the union.
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.

## Presidential elections

Presidential elections in New Mexico from 1912 to present :
| Year | Winner | Winner | Winner | Winner | Runner-up | Runner-up | Runner-up | Runner-up | Other candidate | Other candidate | Other candidate | Other candidate | EV | Ref. |
| Year | Candidate | Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Candidate | Votes | % | EV | Ref. |
| 1912 | | Woodrow Wilson (D)‡ | 20,437 | 41.87% | | William Howard Taft (R) | 17,164 | 35.17% | | Theodore Roosevelt (PR-1912) | 8,347 | 17.10% | 3 | |
| 1916 | | Woodrow Wilson (D)‡ | 33,693 | 50.38% | | Charles Evans Hughes (R) | 31,097 | 46.50% | | Allan L. Benson (S) | 1,977 | 2.96% | 3 | |
| 1920 | | Warren G. Harding (R) ‡ | 57,634 | 54.67% | | James M. Cox (D) | 46,668 | 44.27% | | Parley P. Christensen (FL) | 1,104 | 1.05% | 3 | |
| 1924 | | Calvin Coolidge (R) ‡ | 54,745 | 48.52% | | John W. Davis (D) | 48,542 | 43.02% | | Robert M. La Follette (PR-1924) | 9,543 | 8.46% | 3 | |
| 1928 | | Herbert Hoover (R)‡ | 69,708 | 59.04% | | Al Smith (D) | 48,211 | 40.83% | | William Z. Foster (CPUSA) | 158 | 0.13% | 3 | |
| 1932 | | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)‡ | 95,089 | 62.72% | | Herbert Hoover (R) | 54,217 | 35.76% | | Norman Thomas (S) | 1,776 | 1.17% | 3 | |
| 1936 | | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)‡ | 106,037 | 62.69% | | Alf Landon (R) | 61,727 | 36.50% | | William Lemke (U) | 924 | 0.55% | 3 | |
| 1940 | | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)‡ | 103,699 | 56.59% | | Wendell Willkie (R) | 79,315 | 43.28% | | Norman Thomas (S) | 144 | 0.08% | 3 | |
| 1944 | | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)‡ | 81,389 | 53.47% | | Thomas E. Dewey (R) | 70,688 | 46.44% | | Claude A. Watson (PRO) | 148 | 0.10% | 4 | |
| 1948 | | Harry S. Truman (D) ‡ | 105,464 | 56.38% | | Thomas E. Dewey (R) | 80,303 | 42.93% | | Strom Thurmond (DI) | 1,037 | 0.55% | 4 | |
| 1952 | | Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) ‡ | 132,170 | 55.39% | | Adlai Stevenson (D) | 105,661 | 44.28% | | Stuart Hamblen (PRO) | 297 | 0.12% | 4 | |
| 1956 | | Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) ‡ | 146,788 | 57.81% | | Adlai Stevenson (D) | 106,098 | 41.78% | | T. Coleman Andrews (C) | 364 | 0.14% | 4 | |
| 1960 | | John F. Kennedy (D) ‡ | 156,027 | 50.15% | | Richard Nixon (R) | 153,733 | 49.41% | | Eric Hass (SLP) | 570 | 0.18% | 4 | |
| 1964 | | Lyndon B. Johnson (D) ‡ | 194,015 | 59.03% | | Barry Goldwater (R) | 131,838 | 40.12% | | Eric Hass (SLP) | 1,217 | 0.37% | 4 | |
| 1968 | | Richard Nixon (R) ‡ | 169,692 | 51.84% | | Hubert Humphrey (D) | 130,081 | 39.74% | | George Wallace (AI) | 25,737 | 7.86% | 4 | |
| 1972 | | Richard Nixon (R) ‡ | 235,606 | 61.00% | | George McGovern (D) | 141,084 | 36.53% | | John G. Schmitz (AI) | 8,767 | 2.27% | 4 | |
| 1976 | | Gerald Ford (R) | 211,419 | 50.53% | | Jimmy Carter (D) ‡ | 201,148 | 48.07% | | Peter Camejo (SWP) | 2,462 | 0.59% | 4 | |
| 1980 | | Ronald Reagan (R) ‡ | 250,779 | 54.88% | | Jimmy Carter (D) | 167,826 | 36.73% | | John B. Anderson (I) | 29,459 | 6.45% | 4 | |
| 1984 | | Ronald Reagan (R) ‡ | 307,101 | 59.70% | | Walter Mondale (D) | 201,769 | 39.23% | | David Bergland (LI) | 4,459 | 0.87% | 5 | |
| 1988 | | George H. W. Bush (R) ‡ | 270,341 | 51.86% | | Michael Dukakis (D) | 244,497 | 46.90% | | Ron Paul (LI) | 3,268 | 0.63% | 5 | |
| 1992 | | Bill Clinton (D) ‡ | 261,617 | 45.90% | | George H. W. Bush (R) | 212,824 | 37.34% | | Ross Perot (I) | 91,895 | 16.12% | 5 | |
| 1996 | | Bill Clinton (D) ‡ | 273,495 | 49.18% | | Bob Dole (R) | 232,751 | 41.86% | | Ross Perot (RE) | 32,257 | 5.80% | 5 | |
| 2000 | | Al Gore (D) | 286,783 | 47.91% | | George W. Bush (R) ‡ | 286,417 | 47.85% | | Ralph Nader (G) | 21,251 | 3.55% | 5 | |
| 2004 | | George W. Bush (R)‡ | 376,930 | 49.84% | | John Kerry (D) | 370,942 | 49.05% | | Ralph Nader (I) | 4,053 | 0.54% | 5 | |
| 2008 | | Barack Obama (D)‡ | 472,422 | 56.91% | | John McCain (R) | 346,832 | 41.78% | | Ralph Nader (I) | 5,327 | 0.64% | 5 | |
| 2012 | | Barack Obama (D)‡ | 415,335 | 52.99% | | Mitt Romney (R) | 335,788 | 42.84% | | Gary Johnson (LI) | 27,788 | 3.55% | 5 | |
| 2016 | | Hillary Clinton (D) | 385,234 | 48.26% | | Donald Trump (R)‡ | 319,667 | 40.04% | | Gary Johnson (LI) | 74,541 | 9.34% | 5 | |
| 2020 | | Joe Biden (D)‡ | 501,614 | 54.29% | | Donald Trump (R) | 401,894 | 43.50% | | Jo Jorgensen (LI) | 12,585 | 1.36% | 5 | |
| 2024 | | Kamala Harris (D) | 478,802 | 51.85% | | Donald Trump (R)‡ | 423,391 | 45.85% | | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (I) | 9,553 | 1.03% | 5 | |

### 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.