# 1976 United States presidential election in New Mexico

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The 1976 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 2, 1976. All fifty states and The District of Columbia were part of the 1976 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
New Mexico was won by President Gerald Ford by a 2-point lead. A very partisan election in New Mexico, only one percent of the electorate voted for third-party candidates. While Ford took the State of New Mexico, and much of the American Southwest and Midwest, Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter won the electoral college with 297 votes, and was elected president.
A reliable bellwether state in presidential elections up to this point, this was the first election since gaining statehood that New Mexico did not back the winning presidential candidate, and the first time New Mexico did not back the national popular-vote winner until 2024 (in 2000 and 2016, it voted for the candidate who won the popular vote but not the electoral vote). As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last election in which Torrance County and Quay County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.

## Results

1976 United States presidential election in New Mexico :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Republican | Gerald Ford (incumbent)Bob Dole | 211,419 | 50.75% | −10.30 |
| | Democratic | Jimmy CarterWalter Mondale | 201,148 | 48.28% | +11.72 |
| | Socialist Workers | Peter CamejoWillie Mae Reid | 2,462 | 0.59% | +0.47 |
| | Libertarian | Roger MacBrideDavid Bergland | 1,110 | 0.27% | N/A |
| | Socialist | Frank ZeidlerJ. Quinn Brisben | 240 | 0.06% | N/A |
| | Prohibition | Benjamin Bubar Jr.Earl Dodge | 211 | 0.05% | N/A |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 416,590 | 100.00% | |
| | Republican win | Republican win | Republican win | Republican win | Republican win |

### Results by county

| County | Gerald Ford Republican | Gerald Ford Republican | Jimmy Carter Democratic | Jimmy Carter Democratic | Various candidates Other parties | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Margin | Total votes cast |
| County | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | Total votes cast |
| Bernalillo | 76,614 | 53.98% | 63,949 | 45.06% | 1,363 | 0.96% | 12,665 | 8.92% | 141,926 |
| Catron | 602 | 53.18% | 517 | 45.67% | 13 | 1.15% | 85 | 7.51% | 1,132 |
| Chaves | 10,631 | 59.26% | 7,139 | 39.79% | 170 | 0.95% | 3,492 | 19.47% | 17,940 |
| Colfax | 2,259 | 45.13% | 2,718 | 54.29% | 29 | 0.58% | -459 | -9.16% | 5,006 |
| Curry | 6,232 | 54.87% | 5,004 | 44.06% | 122 | 1.07% | 1,228 | 10.81% | 11,358 |
| De Baca | 556 | 47.93% | 597 | 51.47% | 7 | 0.60% | -41 | -3.54% | 1,160 |
| Dona Ana | 13,888 | 53.09% | 12,036 | 46.01% | 233 | 0.90% | 1,852 | 7.08% | 26,157 |
| Eddy | 7,698 | 45.59% | 9,073 | 53.73% | 115 | 0.68% | -1,375 | -8.14% | 16,886 |
| Grant | 4,095 | 43.90% | 5,176 | 55.49% | 57 | 0.61% | -1,081 | -11.59% | 9,328 |
| Guadalupe | 1,047 | 42.68% | 1,379 | 56.22% | 27 | 1.10% | -332 | -13.54% | 2,453 |
| Harding | 387 | 57.08% | 285 | 42.04% | 6 | 0.88% | 102 | 15.04% | 678 |
| Hidalgo | 891 | 48.56% | 938 | 51.12% | 6 | 0.32% | -47 | -2.56% | 1,835 |
| Lea | 8,773 | 56.82% | 6,533 | 42.31% | 135 | 0.87% | 2,240 | 14.51% | 15,441 |
| Lincoln | 2,320 | 61.64% | 1,415 | 37.59% | 29 | 0.77% | 905 | 24.05% | 3,764 |
| Los Alamos | 5,383 | 64.43% | 2,890 | 34.59% | 82 | 0.98% | 2,493 | 29.84% | 8,355 |
| Luna | 2,966 | 50.25% | 2,872 | 48.65% | 65 | 1.10% | 94 | 1.60% | 5,903 |
| McKinley | 4,617 | 39.83% | 6,856 | 59.14% | 120 | 1.03% | -2,239 | -19.31% | 11,593 |
| Mora | 904 | 38.29% | 1,438 | 60.91% | 19 | 0.80% | -534 | -22.62% | 2,361 |
| Otero | 5,914 | 52.10% | 5,333 | 46.98% | 105 | 0.92% | 581 | 5.12% | 11,352 |
| Quay | 2,059 | 49.08% | 2,095 | 49.94% | 41 | 0.98% | -36 | -0.86% | 4,195 |
| Rio Arriba | 3,213 | 30.75% | 7,125 | 68.19% | 111 | 1.06% | -3,912 | -37.44% | 10,449 |
| Roosevelt | 3,269 | 50.85% | 3,111 | 48.39% | 49 | 0.76% | 158 | 2.46% | 6,429 |
| San Juan | 10,852 | 55.13% | 8,615 | 43.77% | 216 | 1.10% | 2,237 | 11.36% | 19,683 |
| San Miguel | 3,162 | 37.17% | 5,204 | 61.17% | 141 | 1.66% | -2,042 | -24.00% | 8,507 |
| Sandoval | 4,110 | 44.34% | 5,072 | 54.72% | 87 | 0.94% | -962 | -10.38% | 9,269 |
| Santa Fe | 11,576 | 44.53% | 14,127 | 54.34% | 294 | 1.13% | -2,551 | -9.81% | 25,997 |
| Sierra | 1,665 | 51.04% | 1,564 | 47.95% | 33 | 1.01% | 101 | 3.09% | 3,262 |
| Socorro | 2,265 | 45.86% | 2,606 | 52.76% | 68 | 1.38% | -341 | -6.90% | 4,939 |
| Taos | 3,012 | 40.07% | 4,414 | 58.72% | 91 | 1.21% | -1,402 | -18.65% | 7,517 |
| Torrance | 1,462 | 48.54% | 1,526 | 50.66% | 24 | 0.80% | -64 | -2.12% | 3,012 |
| Union | 1,146 | 53.30% | 975 | 45.35% | 29 | 1.35% | 171 | 7.95% | 2,150 |
| Valencia | 7,851 | 47.43% | 8,566 | 51.75% | 136 | 0.82% | -715 | -4.32% | 16,553 |
| Totals | 211,419 | 50.75% | 201,148 | 48.28% | 4,023 | 0.97% | 10,271 | 2.47% | 416,590 |

#### Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

* Grant
* McKinley
* Guadalupe
* Sandoval
* Colfax
* Eddy
* Mora
* Santa Fe
* Taos
* Socorro
* Valencia
* De Baca
* Hidalgo
* Torrance
* Quay