1996 United States presidential election in New Mexico
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Nominee Bill Clinton Bob Dole Ross Perot
Party Democratic Republican Reform
Home state Arkansas Kansas Texas
Running mate Al Gore Jack Kemp Pat Choate
Electoral vote 5 0 0
Popular vote 273,495 232,751 32,257
Percentage 49.18% 41.86% 5.80%
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The 1996 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 5, 1996. All fifty states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1996 United States presidential election. State voters chose five electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

New Mexico was won by incumbent United States President Bill Clinton of Arkansas, who was running against Kansas Senator Bob Dole. Clinton ran a second time with former Tennessee Senator Al Gore as Vice President, and Dole ran with former New York Congressman Jack Kemp.[1]

New Mexico weighed in for this election as 1% more Republican than the national average. The presidential election of 1996 was a very multi-partisan election for New Mexico, with nearly ten percent of the electorate voting for third-party candidates, and two third-party candidates receiving more than 1% of the vote. The majority of counties in New Mexico turned out for Clinton, including the highly populated areas of Doña Ana County, Santa Fe County and Albuquerque’s Bernalillo County. In his second bid for the presidency, Ross Perot led the newly reformed Reform Party to gain over five percent of the votes in New Mexico, and to pull in support nationally as the most popular third-party candidate to run for United States Presidency in recent times.

As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which the following counties voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: Sierra, Eddy, and De Baca.[2]

Results

1996 United States presidential election in New Mexico
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic
273,495 49.18% +3.28
Republican
232,751 41.86% +4.52
Reform
32,257 5.80% −10.32
Green
13,218 2.38% N/A
Libertarian
2,996 0.54% +0.26
U.S. Taxpayers'
713 0.13% +0.02
Natural Law
644 0.12% +0.02
Total votes 556,074 100.00%
Democratic win

Results by county

County Bill Clinton
Democratic 		Bob Dole
Republican 		Ross Perot[3]
Reform 		Ralph Nader[3]
Green 		Various candidates[3]
Other parties 		Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # % # % # %
Bernalillo 88,140 48.28% 78,832 43.19% 8,708 4.77% 5,269 2.89% 1,594 0.87% 9,308 5.09% 182,543
Catron 423 27.76% 923 60.56% 114 7.48% 29 1.90% 35 2.30% -500 -32.80% 1,524
Chaves 7,014 37.87% 9,991 53.95% 1,271 6.86% 123 0.66% 120 0.65% -2,977 -16.08% 18,519
Cibola 4,030 58.58% 2,245 32.63% 488 7.09% 85 1.24% 32 0.47% 1,785 25.95% 6,880
Colfax 2,659 51.47% 1,975 38.23% 411 7.96% 90 1.74% 31 0.60% 684 13.24% 5,166
Curry 4,116 33.07% 7,378 59.28% 842 6.76% 61 0.49% 50 0.40% -3,262 -26.21% 12,447
De Baca 509 46.57% 489 44.74% 86 7.87% 4 0.37% 5 0.46% 20 1.83% 1,093
Dona Ana 22,766 52.26% 17,541 40.26% 2,269 5.21% 635 1.46% 353 0.81% 5,225 12.00% 43,564
Eddy 8,959 47.16% 8,534 44.92% 1,297 6.83% 101 0.53% 107 0.56% 425 2.24% 18,998
Grant 5,860 53.62% 3,993 36.54% 778 7.12% 205 1.88% 92 0.84% 1,867 17.08% 10,928
Guadalupe 1,208 69.59% 436 25.12% 79 4.55% 9 0.52% 4 0.23% 772 44.47% 1,736
Harding 264 42.86% 321 52.11% 28 4.55% 3 0.49% 0 0.00% -57 -9.25% 616
Hidalgo 943 48.31% 789 40.42% 209 10.71% 5 0.26% 6 0.31% 154 7.89% 1,952
Lea 5,393 36.77% 7,661 52.24% 1,465 9.99% 54 0.37% 93 0.63% -2,268 -15.47% 14,666
Lincoln 2,209 34.46% 3,396 52.97% 666 10.39% 78 1.22% 62 0.97% -1,187 -18.51% 6,411
Los Alamos 3,983 40.10% 4,999 50.33% 560 5.64% 247 2.49% 143 1.44% -1,016 -10.23% 9,932
Luna 3,001 47.44% 2,616 41.35% 598 9.45% 63 1.00% 48 0.76% 385 6.09% 6,326
McKinley 10,124 65.21% 4,470 28.79% 650 4.19% 196 1.26% 86 0.55% 5,654 36.42% 15,526
Mora 1,646 68.76% 561 23.43% 131 5.47% 39 1.63% 17 0.71% 1,085 45.33% 2,394
Otero 5,938 36.35% 9,065 55.49% 1,096 6.71% 131 0.80% 107 0.65% -3,127 -19.14% 16,337
Quay 1,830 43.82% 1,943 46.53% 377 9.03% 14 0.34% 12 0.29% -113 -2.71% 4,176
Rio Arriba 7,965 70.46% 2,551 22.57% 469 4.15% 268 2.37% 52 0.46% 5,414 47.89% 11,305
Roosevelt 2,097 35.73% 3,245 55.29% 467 7.96% 28 0.48% 32 0.55% -1,148 -19.56% 5,869
San Juan 12,070 37.08% 17,478 53.69% 2,355 7.23% 399 1.23% 251 0.77% -5,408 -16.61% 32,553
San Miguel 6,995 72.51% 1,938 20.09% 405 4.20% 250 2.59% 59 0.61% 5,057 52.42% 9,647
Sandoval 13,081 49.46% 11,015 41.65% 1,482 5.60% 618 2.34% 252 0.95% 2,066 7.81% 26,448
Santa Fe 26,349 62.08% 10,857 25.58% 1,846 4.35% 3,018 7.11% 376 0.89% 15,492 36.50% 42,446
Sierra 2,154 44.83% 2,140 44.54% 431 8.97% 50 1.04% 30 0.62% 14 0.29% 4,805
Socorro 3,374 53.02% 2,315 36.38% 455 7.15% 135 2.12% 85 1.34% 1,059 16.64% 6,364
Taos 6,635 66.00% 2,126 21.15% 545 5.42% 660 6.57% 87 0.87% 4,509 44.85% 10,053
Torrance 2,072 44.51% 2,154 46.27% 332 7.13% 64 1.37% 33 0.71% -82 -1.76% 4,655
Union 519 31.45% 995 60.30% 125 7.58% 5 0.30% 6 0.36% -476 -28.85% 1,650
Valencia 9,169 49.44% 7,779 41.95% 1,222 6.59% 282 1.52% 93 0.50% 1,390 7.49% 18,545
Totals 273,495 49.18% 232,751 41.86% 32,257 5.80% 13,218 2.38% 4,353 0.78% 40,744 7.32% 556,074

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

See also

References

  1. ^ "1996 Presidential General Election Results – New Mexico". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  2. ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  3. ^ a b c Our Campaigns; NM US President 1996
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