Prior to the election, 17 news organizations considered this a state Obama would win, or otherwise considered as a safeblue state. President Obama and Vice President Biden carried New Mexico with 52.99% of the vote to Mitt Romney's 42.84%, a victory margin of 10.15%.LibertarianGary Johnson, a former Republican who served two terms asGovernor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003, garnered 3.55% of the vote, his strongest statewide performance in the nation, and the strongest 3rd party showing in the state since2000 (although that was easily surpassed by Johnson in2016, when he received nearly 10% of the vote in New Mexico).
As of the2024 presidential election, this is the last time whereColfax County,Hidalgo County, andValencia County voted for the Democratic candidate. (Valencia County pickedDonald Trump, Obama's successor, in both his 2016 win and 2020 loss, thus ending its reputation as a pivotal bellwether in presidential elections.) Since its statehood in 1912, no incumbent president of either party has ever won another term in office without carrying New Mexico. This is the last time that the presidential candidate who carried New Mexico won a majority of New Mexico's counties.
The Democratic caucus in New Mexico was uncontested as no one challenged incumbentPresidentBarack Obama for the nomination. As a result, all of the state's 50 delegates were allocated to Obama.
The 2012 New Mexico Republican presidential primary was proclaimed under state law on January 30, 2012[1] to take place on June 5, 2012.[1][2] Under New Mexico law it is aclosed primary, with onlyregistered members of theNew Mexico Republican Party being eligible to vote in the Republican primary.[3] 20 delegates were chosen, for a total of 23 delegates to go to the national convention.
President of the United States: This is a "proportional primary". The twenty delegates to the National Republican Convention are bound proportionally, according to the percentage of votes received, to presidential contenders who receive 15% or more of the primary vote statewide.[4]
^"each candidate and the uncommitted category shall be entitled to a share of the total vote allotted to the delegation that is equal to the proportion that the vote he received in the presidential primary bears to the total combined vote received by all qualified candidates; provided that no candidate shall be excluded who has received at least fifteen percent of the total vote cast for candidates for president of that party, and no candidate shall be excluded in violation of any political party rule"New Mexico Statutes Annotated §1-15A-9(C)(1) (2011), archived byWebcite atArchived 2016-03-03 at theWayback Machine on 6 February 2012
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2012 U.S. presidential election
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