United States Presidential election7 Nov 2028in 728 days Senate D 97% House D 58% Calendar Track record Research
Closest results
Election 1964 Results

Each election opens in its own mode: the forecast before the votes are counted, the live count while races are still too close to call, and the results once every race is decided.

1964 presidential election in New Mexico

Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat) beat Barry Goldwater (Republican) in New Mexico in 1964, 59.0% to 40.4%, a margin of 18.6 points and 61,177 votes.

New Mexico voted 4.0 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+22.6.

The Democratic hold continued from 1960, when John F. Kennedy won.

Democrats led in 29 of the 32 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 3. The largest, Bernalillo, cast 98,317 votes and went to the Democrat by 12.7 points. The closest was Catron, where 40 votes separated the two parties.

United States
If only voted How this works
If the polls miss like

Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Lyndon B. Johnson won Democratic 194,015 59.0%
Barry Goldwater Republican 132,838 40.4%
All other candidates 1,760 0.5%
Total328,613

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Bernalillo 55,036 56.0% 42,583 43.3% 698 98,317 D+12.7
Santa Fe 12,616 68.1% 5,834 31.5% 69 18,519 D+36.6
Doña Ana 10,748 59.4% 7,280 40.3% 57 18,085 D+19.2
Eddy 11,216 62.2% 6,747 37.4% 69 18,032 D+24.8
Chaves 8,650 50.5% 8,419 49.2% 43 17,112 D+1.3
Lea 8,862 55.6% 7,033 44.1% 53 15,948 D+11.5
San Juan 6,901 49.7% 6,808 49.0% 183 13,892 D+0.7
Valencia 7,757 66.0% 3,950 33.6% 50 11,757 D+32.4
Curry 5,228 50.4% 5,120 49.3% 30 10,378 D+1.0
McKinley 6,913 69.1% 2,965 29.7% 122 10,000 D+39.5
Rio Arriba 6,787 69.6% 2,906 29.8% 64 9,757 D+39.8
Otero 6,035 63.1% 3,498 36.6% 27 9,560 D+26.5
San Miguel 5,767 67.8% 2,714 31.9% 24 8,505 D+35.9
Grant 5,253 71.8% 2,042 27.9% 19 7,314 D+43.9
Taos 4,204 67.4% 2,006 32.2% 28 6,238 D+35.2
Los Alamos 3,767 66.2% 1,895 33.3% 26 5,688 D+32.9
Roosevelt 2,875 51.0% 2,732 48.5% 27 5,634 D+2.5
Colfax 3,367 67.0% 1,636 32.5% 26 5,029 D+34.4
Quay 2,333 51.7% 2,161 47.9% 21 4,515 D+3.8
Sandoval 3,332 75.4% 1,077 24.4% 11 4,420 D+51.0
Socorro 2,397 57.3% 1,774 42.4% 10 4,181 D+14.9
Luna 2,286 57.6% 1,665 42.0% 18 3,969 D+15.6
Lincoln 1,565 46.7% 1,761 52.6% 25 3,351 R+5.8
Sierra 1,633 51.9% 1,501 47.7% 15 3,149 D+4.2
Guadalupe 1,649 60.8% 1,058 39.0% 6 2,713 D+21.8
Torrance 1,446 54.9% 1,183 44.9% 6 2,635 D+10.0
Mora 1,509 59.7% 1,014 40.1% 4 2,527 D+19.6
Union 1,159 48.3% 1,232 51.3% 10 2,401 R+3.0
Hidalgo 995 60.9% 628 38.4% 11 1,634 D+22.5
De Baca 674 54.4% 559 45.1% 7 1,240 D+9.3
Catron 624 51.7% 584 48.3% 1,208 D+3.3
Harding 431 47.6% 473 52.3% 1 905 R+4.6

Counties as they stood in 1964; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

New Mexico in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+6.0
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+10.8
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+8.2
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+10.1
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+15.1
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+0.8
2000 Al Gore (D) D+0.1
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+7.3
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+8.6
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+5.0
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+20.5
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+18.2
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+2.5
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+24.5
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+12.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+18.6
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+0.7
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+16.3
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.4
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+13.5
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+7.0
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+13.3
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+26.2
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+27.0
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+18.2
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+5.5
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+10.4
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+3.6
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+5.5