- Lead
- 471
- Total
- 14,617
- vs nation
- D+4.7
New Mexico 36th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,042
- Total
- 12,777
- vs nation
- D+3.7
- Lead
- 630
- Total
- 10,176
- vs nation
- D+4.1
- Lead
- 211
- Total
- 9,595
- vs nation
- R+1.7
- Lead
- 433
- Total
- 9,961
- vs nation
- R+2.9
- Lead
- 867
- Total
- 9,062
- vs nation
- R+7.1
- Lead
- 469
- Total
- 6,769
- vs nation
- R+7.4
- Lead
- 10
- Total
- 6,262
- vs nation
- R+8.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+3.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 30,5472024 5-year
- Population density
- 68 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 447 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $66,0622024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 32.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 62.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+24.0 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+50.6 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 53, NM · twin score 97.9
presidential history
Party record book
New Mexico 36th 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
61.5%
721 votes · D+24.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 60.2%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
75.2%
469 votes · R+50.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · 68.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
7,399votes
50.6% of the vote · D+3.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 6,780 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
6,928votes
47.4% of the vote · D+3.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 5,738 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
+4.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+3.2 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · +4.2 pts
Republican
Charles E. Hughes1916
+40.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+37.7 · U.S. D+3.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · +38.6 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Its 2024 presidential margin of D+3.2 ranked among New Mexico's closest, against D+4.3 in 2008. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with Hispanic or Latino residents at 67.9%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 24.0 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 50.6 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 3.2 points.
A population of 30,547, a 33% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $66,062 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 53 and State House District 37.
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 36th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/35036/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.