- Lead
- 1,674
- Total
- 15,111
- vs nation
- D+12.5
New Mexico 17th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,056
- Total
- 15,757
- vs nation
- D+8.6
- Lead
- 393
- Total
- 13,052
- vs nation
- D+0.9
- Lead
- 18
- Total
- 12,959
- vs nation
- R+3.7
- Lead
- 608
- Total
- 13,584
- vs nation
- R+2.8
- Lead
- 1,607
- Total
- 12,574
- vs nation
- R+10.3
- Lead
- 1,454
- Total
- 10,006
- vs nation
- R+15.1
- Lead
- 937
- Total
- 8,875
- vs nation
- R+19.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+11.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 30,9082024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,512 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 8.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $85,9332024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 41.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 41.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+20.5 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+44.7 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 29, NM · twin score 95.7
presidential history
Party record book
New Mexico 17th 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
59.7%
630 votes · D+20.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 55.4%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
72.3%
2,454 votes · R+44.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 68.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
8,734votes
55.4% of the vote · D+13.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 8,217 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
7,020votes
55.8% of the vote · R+12.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 6,678 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
Kamala Harris2024
+12.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+11.1 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +8.6 pts
Republican
Charles E. Hughes1916
+32.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+29.2 · U.S. D+3.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1968 · +29.8 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 61.0%8,412 | 39.0%5,379 | 13,791 |
New Mexico House District 17 leans Democratic by roughly 5 points at the presidential level, signaling a genuinely contested seat in a state where many districts are decided by far wider margins.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 20.5 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 44.7 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 11.1 points.
A population of 30,908, a 41% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $85,933 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 29 and State House District 68.
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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