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The1996 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 5, 1996. All fifty states andthe District of Columbia, were part of the1996 United States presidential election. State voters chose five electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president.
New Mexico was won by incumbent United StatesPresidentBill Clinton ofArkansas, who was running againstKansasSenatorBob Dole. Clinton ran a second time with formerTennesseeSenatorAl Gore as Vice President, and Dole ran with formerNew YorkCongressmanJack Kemp.[1]
New Mexico weighed in for this election as 1% moreRepublican than the national average. The presidential election of 1996 was a verymulti-partisan election for New Mexico, with nearly ten percent of the electorate voting forthird-party candidates, and two third-party candidates receiving more than 1% of the vote. The majority ofcounties in New Mexico turned out for Clinton, including the highly populated areas ofDoña Ana County,Santa Fe County andAlbuquerque’sBernalillo County. In his second bid for the presidency,Ross Perot led the newly reformedReform Party to gain over five percent of the votes in New Mexico, and to pull in support nationally as the most popular third-party candidate to run for United States Presidency in recent times.
As of the2024 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which the following counties voted for a Democratic presidential candidate:Sierra,Eddy, andDe Baca.[2]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic |
| 273,495 | 49.18% | +3.28 | |
| Republican | 232,751 | 41.86% | +4.52 | ||
| Reform | 32,257 | 5.80% | −10.32 | ||
| Green | 13,218 | 2.38% | N/A | ||
| Libertarian | 2,996 | 0.54% | +0.26 | ||
| U.S. Taxpayers' | 713 | 0.13% | +0.02 | ||
| Natural Law | 644 | 0.12% | +0.02 | ||
| Total votes | 556,074 | 100.00% | |||
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| County | Bill Clinton Democratic | Bob Dole Republican | Ross Perot[3] Reform | Ralph Nader[3] Green | Various candidates[3] Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Bernalillo | 88,140 | 48.28% | 78,832 | 43.19% | 8,708 | 4.77% | 5,269 | 2.89% | 1,594 | 0.87% | 9,308 | 5.09% | 182,543 |
| Catron | 423 | 27.76% | 923 | 60.56% | 114 | 7.48% | 29 | 1.90% | 35 | 2.30% | -500 | -32.80% | 1,524 |
| Chaves | 7,014 | 37.87% | 9,991 | 53.95% | 1,271 | 6.86% | 123 | 0.66% | 120 | 0.65% | -2,977 | -16.08% | 18,519 |
| Cibola | 4,030 | 58.58% | 2,245 | 32.63% | 488 | 7.09% | 85 | 1.24% | 32 | 0.47% | 1,785 | 25.95% | 6,880 |
| Colfax | 2,659 | 51.47% | 1,975 | 38.23% | 411 | 7.96% | 90 | 1.74% | 31 | 0.60% | 684 | 13.24% | 5,166 |
| Curry | 4,116 | 33.07% | 7,378 | 59.28% | 842 | 6.76% | 61 | 0.49% | 50 | 0.40% | -3,262 | -26.21% | 12,447 |
| De Baca | 509 | 46.57% | 489 | 44.74% | 86 | 7.87% | 4 | 0.37% | 5 | 0.46% | 20 | 1.83% | 1,093 |
| Dona Ana | 22,766 | 52.26% | 17,541 | 40.26% | 2,269 | 5.21% | 635 | 1.46% | 353 | 0.81% | 5,225 | 12.00% | 43,564 |
| Eddy | 8,959 | 47.16% | 8,534 | 44.92% | 1,297 | 6.83% | 101 | 0.53% | 107 | 0.56% | 425 | 2.24% | 18,998 |
| Grant | 5,860 | 53.62% | 3,993 | 36.54% | 778 | 7.12% | 205 | 1.88% | 92 | 0.84% | 1,867 | 17.08% | 10,928 |
| Guadalupe | 1,208 | 69.59% | 436 | 25.12% | 79 | 4.55% | 9 | 0.52% | 4 | 0.23% | 772 | 44.47% | 1,736 |
| Harding | 264 | 42.86% | 321 | 52.11% | 28 | 4.55% | 3 | 0.49% | 0 | 0.00% | -57 | -9.25% | 616 |
| Hidalgo | 943 | 48.31% | 789 | 40.42% | 209 | 10.71% | 5 | 0.26% | 6 | 0.31% | 154 | 7.89% | 1,952 |
| Lea | 5,393 | 36.77% | 7,661 | 52.24% | 1,465 | 9.99% | 54 | 0.37% | 93 | 0.63% | -2,268 | -15.47% | 14,666 |
| Lincoln | 2,209 | 34.46% | 3,396 | 52.97% | 666 | 10.39% | 78 | 1.22% | 62 | 0.97% | -1,187 | -18.51% | 6,411 |
| Los Alamos | 3,983 | 40.10% | 4,999 | 50.33% | 560 | 5.64% | 247 | 2.49% | 143 | 1.44% | -1,016 | -10.23% | 9,932 |
| Luna | 3,001 | 47.44% | 2,616 | 41.35% | 598 | 9.45% | 63 | 1.00% | 48 | 0.76% | 385 | 6.09% | 6,326 |
| McKinley | 10,124 | 65.21% | 4,470 | 28.79% | 650 | 4.19% | 196 | 1.26% | 86 | 0.55% | 5,654 | 36.42% | 15,526 |
| Mora | 1,646 | 68.76% | 561 | 23.43% | 131 | 5.47% | 39 | 1.63% | 17 | 0.71% | 1,085 | 45.33% | 2,394 |
| Otero | 5,938 | 36.35% | 9,065 | 55.49% | 1,096 | 6.71% | 131 | 0.80% | 107 | 0.65% | -3,127 | -19.14% | 16,337 |
| Quay | 1,830 | 43.82% | 1,943 | 46.53% | 377 | 9.03% | 14 | 0.34% | 12 | 0.29% | -113 | -2.71% | 4,176 |
| Rio Arriba | 7,965 | 70.46% | 2,551 | 22.57% | 469 | 4.15% | 268 | 2.37% | 52 | 0.46% | 5,414 | 47.89% | 11,305 |
| Roosevelt | 2,097 | 35.73% | 3,245 | 55.29% | 467 | 7.96% | 28 | 0.48% | 32 | 0.55% | -1,148 | -19.56% | 5,869 |
| San Juan | 12,070 | 37.08% | 17,478 | 53.69% | 2,355 | 7.23% | 399 | 1.23% | 251 | 0.77% | -5,408 | -16.61% | 32,553 |
| San Miguel | 6,995 | 72.51% | 1,938 | 20.09% | 405 | 4.20% | 250 | 2.59% | 59 | 0.61% | 5,057 | 52.42% | 9,647 |
| Sandoval | 13,081 | 49.46% | 11,015 | 41.65% | 1,482 | 5.60% | 618 | 2.34% | 252 | 0.95% | 2,066 | 7.81% | 26,448 |
| Santa Fe | 26,349 | 62.08% | 10,857 | 25.58% | 1,846 | 4.35% | 3,018 | 7.11% | 376 | 0.89% | 15,492 | 36.50% | 42,446 |
| Sierra | 2,154 | 44.83% | 2,140 | 44.54% | 431 | 8.97% | 50 | 1.04% | 30 | 0.62% | 14 | 0.29% | 4,805 |
| Socorro | 3,374 | 53.02% | 2,315 | 36.38% | 455 | 7.15% | 135 | 2.12% | 85 | 1.34% | 1,059 | 16.64% | 6,364 |
| Taos | 6,635 | 66.00% | 2,126 | 21.15% | 545 | 5.42% | 660 | 6.57% | 87 | 0.87% | 4,509 | 44.85% | 10,053 |
| Torrance | 2,072 | 44.51% | 2,154 | 46.27% | 332 | 7.13% | 64 | 1.37% | 33 | 0.71% | -82 | -1.76% | 4,655 |
| Union | 519 | 31.45% | 995 | 60.30% | 125 | 7.58% | 5 | 0.30% | 6 | 0.36% | -476 | -28.85% | 1,650 |
| Valencia | 9,169 | 49.44% | 7,779 | 41.95% | 1,222 | 6.59% | 282 | 1.52% | 93 | 0.50% | 1,390 | 7.49% | 18,545 |
| Totals | 273,495 | 49.18% | 232,751 | 41.86% | 32,257 | 5.80% | 13,218 | 2.38% | 4,353 | 0.78% | 40,744 | 7.32% | 556,074 |
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