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2020 presidential election in New Mexico

Joe Biden (Democrat) beat Donald Trump (Republican) in New Mexico in 2020, 54.3% to 43.5%, a margin of 10.8 points and 99,720 votes.

New Mexico voted 6.3 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+4.5.

The Democratic hold continued from 2016, when Hillary Clinton won.

Republicans led in 19 of the 33 counties and Democrats in 14. The largest, Bernalillo, cast 317,584 votes and went to the Democrat by 24.4 points. The closest was Harding, where 140 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
Joe Biden won Democratic 501,614 54.3%
Donald Trump Republican 401,894 43.5%
All other candidates 20,457 2.2%
Total923,965

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Bernalillo 193,753 61.0% 116,133 36.6% 7,698 317,584 D+24.4
Dona Ana 47,957 58.0% 32,802 39.7% 1,883 82,642 D+18.3
Santa Fe 62,533 76.0% 18,331 22.3% 1,368 82,232 D+53.8
Sandoval 40,594 53.0% 34,177 44.6% 1,801 76,572 D+8.4
San Juan 18,083 34.6% 32,874 62.9% 1,337 52,294 R+28.3
Valencia 14,263 44.2% 17,364 53.8% 650 32,277 R+9.6
McKinley 18,028 68.1% 7,801 29.5% 656 26,485 D+38.6
Otero 8,485 36.0% 14,522 61.6% 565 23,572 R+25.6
Eddy 5,424 23.4% 17,454 75.2% 343 23,221 R+51.8
Chaves 6,381 28.4% 15,657 69.8% 406 22,444 R+41.3
Lea 4,061 19.4% 16,531 79.0% 326 20,918 R+59.6
Taos 13,121 76.4% 3,715 21.6% 345 17,181 D+54.7
Rio Arriba 10,989 66.1% 5,408 32.5% 229 16,626 D+33.6
Curry 4,307 28.5% 10,444 69.2% 350 15,101 R+40.6
Grant 7,590 52.6% 6,553 45.4% 292 14,435 D+7.2
Los Alamos 7,550 61.5% 4,275 34.8% 460 12,285 D+26.7
San Miguel 7,888 68.4% 3,421 29.7% 222 11,531 D+38.7
Lincoln 3,194 31.0% 6,941 67.4% 170 10,305 R+36.4
Cibola 4,746 53.3% 3,975 44.6% 184 8,905 D+8.7
Luna 3,563 44.0% 4,408 54.4% 132 8,103 R+10.4
Torrance 2,344 32.2% 4,772 65.5% 166 7,282 R+33.3
Socorro 3,722 52.0% 3,255 45.5% 183 7,160 D+6.5
Roosevelt 1,802 27.3% 4,634 70.1% 172 6,608 R+42.9
Colfax 2,611 43.4% 3,271 54.4% 134 6,016 R+11.0
Sierra 2,265 38.1% 3,542 59.6% 138 5,945 R+21.5
Quay 1,170 30.2% 2,634 68.0% 69 3,873 R+37.8
Mora 1,745 65.0% 903 33.6% 38 2,686 D+31.3
Catron 595 25.6% 1,698 73.0% 33 2,326 R+47.4
Guadalupe 1,234 56.4% 917 41.9% 38 2,189 D+14.5
Hidalgo 823 41.7% 1,120 56.7% 31 1,974 R+15.0
Union 383 21.4% 1,388 77.6% 18 1,789 R+56.2
De Baca 231 25.6% 656 72.8% 14 901 R+47.2
Harding 179 35.4% 319 63.2% 7 505 R+27.7

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