- Lead
- 5,522
- Total
- 14,791
- vs nation
- R+35.9
New Mexico 56th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,188
- Total
- 14,910
- vs nation
- R+39.3
- Lead
- 4,770
- Total
- 12,783
- vs nation
- R+39.4
- Lead
- 4,219
- Total
- 12,969
- vs nation
- R+36.4
- Lead
- 3,434
- Total
- 13,709
- vs nation
- R+32.3
- Lead
- 4,810
- Total
- 12,928
- vs nation
- R+34.7
- Lead
- 3,424
- Total
- 9,901
- vs nation
- R+35.1
- Lead
- 1,831
- Total
- 9,466
- vs nation
- R+27.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+37.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 31,1012024 5-year
- Population density
- 4.8 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 6,467 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $54,6602024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 55.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 26.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+31.3 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+50.4 in 1984MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 49, NM · twin score 82.8
presidential history
Party record book
New Mexico 56th 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. Roosevelt1932
65.2%
2,556 votes · D+31.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 56.0%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
74.7%
5,913 votes · R+50.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 73.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
5,037votes
36.7% of the vote · R+25.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 4,734 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
10,016votes
67.7% of the vote · R+37.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 9,922 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 W. Davis1924
+13.5pts D vs U.S.
Place R+11.6 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · +13.5 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+39.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+37.3 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +39.3 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 | R | 33.2%4,513 | 66.8%9,089 | 13,602 |
Covering rural eastern New Mexico near the Texas border, this district delivered a 37.3-point Republican presidential margin in 2024 — among the widest in the state — reflecting the region's ranching economy and sparse, predominantly non-Hispanic white population.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 31.3 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 50.4 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 37.3 points.
A population of 31,101, a 56% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $54,660 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 49 and State House District 30.
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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