- Lead
- 5,617
- Total
- 12,313
- vs nation
- R+44.1
New Mexico 59th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,449
- Total
- 12,484
- vs nation
- R+48.1
- Lead
- 4,803
- Total
- 11,150
- vs nation
- R+45.2
- Lead
- 4,386
- Total
- 11,274
- vs nation
- R+42.8
- Lead
- 4,042
- Total
- 12,113
- vs nation
- R+40.6
- Lead
- 5,328
- Total
- 12,038
- vs nation
- R+41.8
- Lead
- 3,496
- Total
- 9,925
- vs nation
- R+35.7
- Lead
- 2,352
- Total
- 9,982
- vs nation
- R+32.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+45.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 30,5862024 5-year
- Population density
- 126 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 243 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $58,3732024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 45.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 47.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+30.9 in 1916MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+54.7 in 1984MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 66, NM · twin score 93.9
presidential history
Party record book
New Mexico 59th 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
Woodrow Wilson1916
61.7%
1,141 votes · D+30.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 61.6%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
76.8%
8,903 votes · R+54.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 74.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
4,192votes
46.2% of the vote · R+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 3,953 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
8,903votes
76.8% of the vote · R+54.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 8,862 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
+33.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+8.0 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +27.8 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+48.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+43.6 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +45.2 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 | 31.9%3,233 | 68.1%6,911 | 10,144 |
| 2020 | R | 32.0%3,362 | 68.0%7,132 | 10,494 |
New Mexico 59th State House District sits in the desert Southwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 30.9 points in 1916 and a Republican high of 54.7 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 45.6 points.
A population of 30,586, a 46% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $58,373 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 66 and State House District 55.
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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