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| Elections in New Mexico |
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The1988 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 8, 1988. All 50 states andthe District of Columbia, were part of the1988 United States presidential election. State voters chose five electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president.New Mexico was won by incumbent United StatesVice PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush ofTexas, who was running againstMassachusettsGovernorMichael Dukakis. Bush ran withIndianaSenatorDan Quayle as Vice President, and Dukakis ran withTexasSenatorLloyd Bentsen.
Bush won the state with 51.86% of the vote to Dukakis's 46.90%, for a margin of 4.96%. New Mexico weighed in for this election as 4 percentage points moreDemocratic than the national average. This was also the last election in which a Republican presidential candidate won a majority of the popular vote in New Mexico, although his sonGeorge W. Bush would eke out an extremely narrow 49.84%-49.05% plurality overJohn Kerry in2004.
The presidential election of 1988 was a verypartisan election for New Mexico, with 98 percent of the electorate voting for either theDemocratic orRepublican parties.[1] As of the2024 election[update], this is the last presidential election in New Mexico in whichBernalillo County andDoña Ana County voted for a Republican presidential candidate.[2] The Democratic stronghold in the northern part of the state is evident during this election, and remains largely intact from this point onward to current political times.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | 270,341 | 51.86% | −7.84 | ||
| Democratic | 244,497 | 46.90% | +7.67 | ||
| Libertarian | 3,268 | 0.63% | −0.24 | ||
| New Alliance |
| 2,237 | 0.43% | +0.40 | |
| Socialist Workers | 344 | 0.07% | ±0.00 | ||
| Workers World |
| 258 | 0.05% | N/A | |
| Prohibition | 249 | 0.05% | +0.01 | ||
| Write-in | 93 | 0.02% | |||
| Total votes | 521,287 | 100.00% | |||
| Republicanwin | |||||
| County | George H.W. Bush Republican | Michael Dukakis Democratic | Ron Paul[3] Libertarian | Lenora Fulani[3] New Alliance | Various candidates[3] Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Bernalillo | 92,830 | 53.62% | 78,346 | 45.25% | 1,196 | 0.69% | 431 | 0.25% | 332 | 0.19% | 14,484 | 8.37% | 173,135 |
| Catron | 925 | 62.25% | 490 | 32.97% | 53 | 3.57% | 14 | 0.94% | 4 | 0.27% | 435 | 29.28% | 1,486 |
| Chaves | 13,367 | 65.84% | 6,730 | 33.15% | 58 | 0.29% | 118 | 0.58% | 30 | 0.15% | 6,637 | 32.69% | 20,303 |
| Cibola | 2,640 | 43.02% | 3,458 | 56.35% | 18 | 0.29% | 6 | 0.10% | 15 | 0.24% | -818 | -13.33% | 6,137 |
| Colfax | 2,256 | 44.37% | 2,785 | 54.77% | 25 | 0.49% | 16 | 0.31% | 3 | 0.06% | -529 | -10.40% | 5,085 |
| Curry | 8,032 | 66.17% | 3,995 | 32.91% | 36 | 0.30% | 64 | 0.53% | 11 | 0.09% | 4,037 | 33.26% | 12,138 |
| De Baca | 643 | 56.60% | 480 | 42.25% | 6 | 0.53% | 7 | 0.62% | 0 | 0.00% | 163 | 14.35% | 1,136 |
| Dona Ana | 21,582 | 51.70% | 19,608 | 46.97% | 281 | 0.67% | 200 | 0.48% | 76 | 0.18% | 1,974 | 4.73% | 41,747 |
| Eddy | 9,805 | 52.90% | 8,544 | 46.10% | 52 | 0.28% | 112 | 0.60% | 22 | 0.12% | 1,261 | 6.80% | 18,535 |
| Grant | 4,196 | 43.10% | 5,443 | 55.91% | 55 | 0.56% | 22 | 0.23% | 19 | 0.20% | -1,247 | -12.81% | 9,735 |
| Guadalupe | 861 | 40.63% | 1,243 | 58.66% | 4 | 0.19% | 7 | 0.33% | 4 | 0.19% | -382 | -18.03% | 2,119 |
| Harding | 377 | 56.10% | 291 | 43.30% | 2 | 0.30% | 1 | 0.15% | 1 | 0.15% | 86 | 12.80% | 672 |
| Hidalgo | 1,100 | 54.46% | 901 | 44.60% | 7 | 0.35% | 10 | 0.50% | 2 | 0.10% | 199 | 9.86% | 2,020 |
| Lea | 11,309 | 65.36% | 5,879 | 33.98% | 48 | 0.28% | 20 | 0.12% | 47 | 0.27% | 5,430 | 31.38% | 17,303 |
| Lincoln | 3,511 | 66.40% | 1,690 | 31.96% | 32 | 0.61% | 43 | 0.81% | 12 | 0.23% | 1,821 | 34.44% | 5,288 |
| Los Alamos | 6,622 | 65.22% | 3,275 | 32.26% | 191 | 1.88% | 52 | 0.51% | 13 | 0.13% | 3,347 | 32.96% | 10,153 |
| Luna | 3,415 | 51.46% | 3,066 | 46.20% | 88 | 1.33% | 60 | 0.90% | 7 | 0.11% | 349 | 5.26% | 6,636 |
| McKinley | 5,694 | 36.81% | 9,595 | 62.04% | 46 | 0.30% | 93 | 0.60% | 39 | 0.25% | -3,901 | -25.23% | 15,467 |
| Mora | 923 | 36.27% | 1,601 | 62.91% | 5 | 0.20% | 15 | 0.59% | 1 | 0.04% | -678 | -26.64% | 2,545 |
| Otero | 9,984 | 64.50% | 5,284 | 34.14% | 73 | 0.47% | 109 | 0.70% | 28 | 0.18% | 4,700 | 30.36% | 15,478 |
| Quay | 2,454 | 55.62% | 1,901 | 43.09% | 23 | 0.52% | 27 | 0.61% | 7 | 0.16% | 553 | 12.53% | 4,412 |
| Rio Arriba | 3,024 | 28.46% | 7,503 | 70.61% | 24 | 0.23% | 57 | 0.54% | 18 | 0.17% | -4,479 | -42.15% | 10,626 |
| Roosevelt | 3,589 | 63.18% | 2,033 | 35.79% | 16 | 0.28% | 32 | 0.56% | 11 | 0.19% | 1,556 | 27.39% | 5,681 |
| San Juan | 16,202 | 58.39% | 11,094 | 39.98% | 238 | 0.86% | 143 | 0.52% | 73 | 0.26% | 5,108 | 18.41% | 27,750 |
| San Miguel | 2,763 | 30.62% | 6,131 | 67.95% | 37 | 0.41% | 78 | 0.86% | 14 | 0.16% | -3,368 | -37.33% | 9,023 |
| Sandoval | 9,411 | 49.50% | 9,332 | 49.09% | 146 | 0.77% | 86 | 0.45% | 36 | 0.19% | 79 | 0.41% | 19,011 |
| Santa Fe | 12,891 | 34.91% | 23,581 | 63.86% | 255 | 0.69% | 154 | 0.42% | 46 | 0.12% | -10,690 | -28.95% | 36,927 |
| Sierra | 2,507 | 60.19% | 1,595 | 38.30% | 18 | 0.43% | 29 | 0.70% | 16 | 0.38% | 912 | 21.89% | 4,165 |
| Socorro | 3,114 | 50.09% | 2,960 | 47.61% | 88 | 1.42% | 46 | 0.74% | 9 | 0.14% | 154 | 2.48% | 6,217 |
| Taos | 2,897 | 31.29% | 6,271 | 67.73% | 39 | 0.42% | 42 | 0.45% | 10 | 0.11% | -3,374 | -36.44% | 9,259 |
| Torrance | 2,252 | 57.19% | 1,618 | 41.09% | 32 | 0.81% | 31 | 0.79% | 5 | 0.13% | 634 | 16.10% | 3,938 |
| Union | 1,291 | 65.87% | 638 | 32.55% | 9 | 0.46% | 17 | 0.87% | 5 | 0.26% | 653 | 33.32% | 1,960 |
| Valencia | 7,874 | 51.80% | 7,136 | 46.95% | 69 | 0.45% | 94 | 0.62% | 27 | 0.18% | 738 | 4.85% | 15,200 |
| Totals | 270,341 | 51.86% | 244,497 | 46.90% | 3,268 | 0.63% | 2,237 | 0.43% | 944 | 0.18% | 25,844 | 4.96% | 521,287 |
Bush carried 2 of the 3 congressional districts.
| District[4] | Bush | Dukakis |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 54.2% | 45.8% |
| 2nd | 58.8% | 41.2% |
| 3rd | 44.8% | 55.2% |
