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Election 1972 Results

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1972 presidential election in New Mexico

Richard Nixon (Republican) beat George McGovern (Democrat) in New Mexico in 1972, 61.0% to 36.6%, a margin of 24.5 points and 94,522 votes.

New Mexico voted 1.3 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+23.1.

The Republican hold continued from 1968, when Richard Nixon also won.

Republicans led in 30 of the 32 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 2. The largest, Bernalillo, cast 131,562 votes and went to the Republican by 23.7 points. The closest was Mora, where 30 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 235,606 61.0%
George McGovern Democratic 141,084 36.6%
All other candidates 9,241 2.4%
Total385,931

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Bernalillo 48,753 37.1% 79,993 60.8% 2,816 131,562 R+23.7
Doña Ana 9,416 38.6% 14,562 59.8% 388 24,366 R+21.1
Santa Fe 10,761 46.3% 12,211 52.5% 274 23,246 R+6.2
Lea 3,429 21.0% 12,478 76.4% 424 16,331 R+55.4
Chaves 4,296 26.5% 11,493 70.9% 427 16,216 R+44.4
San Juan 4,296 26.9% 10,788 67.6% 886 15,970 R+40.7
Eddy 5,040 32.8% 9,921 64.6% 385 15,346 R+31.8
Valencia 6,110 41.6% 8,239 56.1% 339 14,688 R+14.5
Curry 2,416 21.8% 8,392 75.8% 256 11,064 R+54.0
McKinley 5,124 47.5% 5,366 49.7% 299 10,789 R+2.2
Otero 2,981 27.9% 7,033 65.9% 656 10,670 R+38.0
Rio Arriba 5,642 55.3% 4,351 42.7% 202 10,195 D+12.7
San Miguel 4,663 50.2% 4,434 47.7% 196 9,293 D+2.5
Grant 4,081 46.5% 4,431 50.5% 269 8,781 R+4.0
Los Alamos 2,435 31.9% 5,039 66.1% 150 7,624 R+34.2
Taos 3,472 48.5% 3,617 50.5% 75 7,164 R+2.0
Sandoval 3,293 47.2% 3,507 50.3% 179 6,979 R+3.1
Roosevelt 1,612 24.9% 4,727 73.0% 134 6,473 R+48.1
Socorro 1,994 42.2% 2,658 56.2% 78 4,730 R+14.0
Luna 1,560 33.4% 2,958 63.2% 159 4,677 R+29.9
Colfax 1,855 40.3% 2,663 57.9% 83 4,601 R+17.6
Quay 1,161 25.7% 3,224 71.3% 137 4,522 R+45.6
Lincoln 696 21.2% 2,528 77.1% 56 3,280 R+55.9
Sierra 934 30.4% 2,074 67.5% 66 3,074 R+37.1
Torrance 908 33.3% 1,758 64.5% 58 2,724 R+31.2
Guadalupe 1,202 47.6% 1,297 51.4% 26 2,525 R+3.8
Mora 1,135 49.0% 1,165 50.3% 18 2,318 R+1.3
Union 496 23.3% 1,545 72.5% 90 2,131 R+49.2
Hidalgo 562 33.9% 1,051 63.4% 44 1,657 R+29.5
Catron 271 24.0% 829 73.5% 28 1,128 R+49.5
De Baca 270 25.8% 752 71.8% 25 1,047 R+46.0
Harding 220 28.9% 522 68.7% 18 760 R+39.7

Counties as they stood in 1972; 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