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Election 2008 Results

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2008 presidential election in New Mexico

Barack Obama (Democrat) beat John McCain (Republican) in New Mexico in 2008, 56.9% to 41.8%, a margin of 15.1 points and 125,590 votes.

New Mexico voted 7.9 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+7.3.

New Mexico changed party: in 2004 it went Republican, for George W. Bush.

Democrats led in 18 of the 33 counties and Republicans in 15. The largest, Bernalillo, cast 285,778 votes and went to the Democrat by 21.4 points. The closest was Hidalgo, where 57 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
Barack Obama won Democratic 472,422 56.9%
John McCain Republican 346,832 41.8%
All other candidates 10,904 1.3%
Total830,158

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Bernalillo 171,556 60.0% 110,521 38.7% 3,701 285,778 D+21.4
Santa Fe 55,567 76.9% 15,807 21.9% 849 72,223 D+55.1
Dona Ana 40,282 58.1% 28,068 40.5% 930 69,280 D+17.6
Sandoval 32,669 55.7% 25,193 43.0% 768 58,630 D+12.8
San Juan 18,028 38.8% 27,869 59.9% 614 46,511 R+21.2
Valencia 15,366 53.2% 13,136 45.5% 397 28,899 D+7.7
McKinley 16,572 71.4% 6,382 27.5% 253 23,207 D+43.9
Chaves 8,197 37.1% 13,651 61.7% 264 22,112 R+24.7
Otero 8,610 39.6% 12,806 58.8% 350 21,766 R+19.3
Eddy 7,351 36.6% 12,500 62.2% 242 20,093 R+25.6
Lea 5,108 27.4% 13,347 71.6% 190 18,645 R+44.2
Rio Arriba 12,703 75.0% 4,086 24.1% 151 16,940 D+50.9
Taos 13,816 81.8% 2,866 17.0% 204 16,886 D+64.8
Curry 4,670 32.3% 9,599 66.5% 169 14,438 R+34.1
Grant 8,142 59.2% 5,406 39.3% 207 13,755 D+19.9
San Miguel 10,320 79.7% 2,478 19.1% 143 12,941 D+60.6
Los Alamos 5,824 52.6% 5,064 45.7% 181 11,069 D+6.9
Lincoln 3,535 36.5% 6,001 61.9% 160 9,696 R+25.4
Cibola 5,827 64.1% 3,131 34.4% 139 9,097 D+29.6
Luna 4,311 51.7% 3,870 46.4% 159 8,340 D+5.3
Socorro 4,696 59.5% 3,032 38.4% 167 7,895 D+21.1
Torrance 3,087 44.5% 3,735 53.8% 119 6,941 R+9.3
Roosevelt 2,303 34.3% 4,311 64.2% 106 6,720 R+29.9
Colfax 3,490 54.7% 2,805 43.9% 89 6,384 D+10.7
Sierra 2,352 42.9% 3,017 55.0% 116 5,485 R+12.1
Quay 1,547 38.7% 2,367 59.2% 82 3,996 R+20.5
Mora 2,168 78.6% 569 20.6% 23 2,760 D+57.9
Guadalupe 1,557 70.9% 620 28.2% 19 2,196 D+42.7
Catron 664 31.4% 1,398 66.2% 50 2,112 R+34.8
Hidalgo 993 50.9% 936 48.0% 22 1,951 D+2.9
Union 492 28.2% 1,227 70.4% 23 1,742 R+42.2
De Baca 359 34.4% 676 64.8% 9 1,044 R+30.4
Harding 260 41.5% 358 57.2% 8 626 R+15.7

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