- Lead
- 1,537
- Total
- 17,821
- vs nation
- D+10.1
New Mexico 44th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,563
- Total
- 17,858
- vs nation
- D+4.3
- Lead
- 465
- Total
- 15,421
- vs nation
- D+0.9
- Lead
- 650
- Total
- 13,790
- vs nation
- D+0.9
- Lead
- 1,774
- Total
- 14,953
- vs nation
- D+4.6
- Lead
- 464
- Total
- 11,740
- vs nation
- R+1.5
- Lead
- 308
- Total
- 8,512
- vs nation
- R+4.1
- Lead
- 323
- Total
- 7,179
- vs nation
- R+4.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+8.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 30,5382024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,257 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 24.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $78,5512024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 54.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 36.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+30.4 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+23.4 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 22, NM · twin score 85.9
presidential history
Party record book
New Mexico 44th 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
64.9%
1,136 votes · D+30.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 55.7%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
61.7%
821 votes · R+23.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 60.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
9,507votes
53.2% of the vote · D+8.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 9,484 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
7,947votes
44.6% of the vote · D+8.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 7,944 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
John F. Kennedy1960
+10.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+10.5 · U.S. D+0.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +10.1 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+27.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+7.5 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +14.1 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
New Mexico 44th State House District sits in the desert Southwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 30.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 23.4 points in 1956. The 2024 margin was 8.6 points.
A population of 30,538, a 54% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $78,551 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 22 and State House District 24.
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 44th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/35044/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.