- Lead
- 1,536
- Total
- 9,054
- vs nation
- D+18.4
New Mexico 9th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,946
- Total
- 9,167
- vs nation
- D+27.7
- Lead
- 2,519
- Total
- 7,727
- vs nation
- D+30.5
- Lead
- 3,119
- Total
- 7,841
- vs nation
- D+35.9
- Lead
- 3,018
- Total
- 8,327
- vs nation
- D+29.0
- Lead
- 1,484
- Total
- 7,442
- vs nation
- D+22.4
- Lead
- 1,393
- Total
- 5,713
- vs nation
- D+23.9
- Lead
- 1,622
- Total
- 5,465
- vs nation
- D+21.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+17.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 28,1952024 5-year
- Population density
- 37 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 767 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $53,8562024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 8.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 18.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+39.8 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+30.6 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 6, NM · twin score 95.6
presidential history
Party record book
New Mexico 9th State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1912–2024 · 29 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
68.6%
5,377 votes · D+39.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 67.6%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
65.0%
772 votes · R+30.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 62.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
5,955votes
65.0% of the vote · D+32.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 5,630 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
3,624votes
40.0% of the vote · D+17.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 3,009 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
+35.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+39.8 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +30.5 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+33.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+14.0 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +28.1 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Anchored in the rural eastern plains near the Texas border, this district posts presidential margins exceeding 40 points Republican — among the widest in a state that Democrats carry statewide by comfortable margins.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 39.8 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 30.6 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 15.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 17.0 points.
A population of 28,195, a 9% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $53,856 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 6 and State House District 5.
The state-house districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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New Mexico 9th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/35009/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.