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Election 1968 Results

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1968 presidential election in New Mexico

Richard Nixon (Republican) beat Hubert Humphrey (Democrat) in New Mexico in 1968, 51.8% to 39.7%, a margin of 12.1 points and 39,611 votes.

New Mexico voted 11.4 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+0.7.

New Mexico changed party: in 1964 it went Democratic, for Lyndon B. Johnson.

Republicans led in 24 of the 32 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 8. The largest, Bernalillo, cast 102,321 votes and went to the Republican by 15.0 points. The closest was San Miguel, where 61 votes separated the two parties.

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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
Richard Nixon won Republican 169,692 51.8%
Hubert Humphrey Democratic 130,081 39.7%
George Wallace American Independent 25,737 7.9%
All other candidates 1,771 0.5%
Total327,281

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Bernalillo 40,835 39.9% 56,234 55.0% 5,252 102,321 R+15.0
Doña Ana 7,658 38.3% 10,824 54.1% 1,508 19,990 R+15.8
Santa Fe 9,544 49.1% 9,359 48.1% 546 19,449 D+1.0
Lea 4,751 30.9% 7,415 48.2% 3,216 15,382 R+17.3
Eddy 6,093 40.4% 7,193 47.7% 1,780 15,066 R+7.3
San Juan 4,036 28.5% 7,664 54.0% 2,485 14,185 R+25.6
Chaves 3,612 25.9% 8,866 63.6% 1,460 13,938 R+37.7
Valencia 5,513 46.1% 5,676 47.5% 758 11,947 R+1.4
Curry 2,915 28.3% 5,562 54.0% 1,825 10,302 R+25.7
Otero 3,978 38.9% 4,475 43.8% 1,771 10,224 R+4.9
McKinley 4,491 46.9% 4,376 45.7% 706 9,573 D+1.2
Rio Arriba 4,799 52.7% 3,935 43.2% 368 9,102 D+9.5
San Miguel 4,088 48.9% 4,027 48.1% 253 8,368 D+0.7
Grant 3,817 50.6% 2,908 38.5% 824 7,549 D+12.0
Los Alamos 2,552 40.7% 3,447 54.9% 277 6,276 R+14.3
Taos 2,993 47.9% 3,119 49.9% 140 6,252 R+2.0
Roosevelt 1,547 27.6% 3,256 58.1% 800 5,603 R+30.5
Colfax 2,477 49.7% 2,212 44.4% 294 4,983 D+5.3
Sandoval 2,609 55.2% 1,959 41.4% 160 4,728 D+13.7
Socorro 1,871 43.7% 2,230 52.1% 182 4,283 R+8.4
Quay 1,399 33.9% 2,123 51.4% 610 4,132 R+17.5
Luna 1,438 36.9% 1,952 50.1% 506 3,896 R+13.2
Lincoln 802 25.8% 2,004 64.5% 300 3,106 R+38.7
Sierra 930 32.7% 1,624 57.1% 292 2,846 R+24.4
Torrance 974 39.2% 1,316 53.0% 194 2,484 R+13.8
Guadalupe 1,027 44.9% 1,176 51.4% 84 2,287 R+6.5
Mora 1,069 47.2% 1,155 51.0% 42 2,266 R+3.8
Union 678 30.9% 1,217 55.4% 301 2,196 R+24.5
Hidalgo 678 43.9% 606 39.2% 260 1,544 D+4.7
De Baca 345 30.2% 658 57.7% 138 1,141 R+27.4
Catron 278 25.7% 674 62.3% 130 1,082 R+36.6
Harding 284 36.4% 450 57.7% 46 780 R+21.3

Counties as they stood in 1968; 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