- Lead
- 3,654
- Total
- 9,959
- vs nation
- D+38.2
New Mexico 65th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,489
- Total
- 10,995
- vs nation
- D+45.5
- Lead
- 4,659
- Total
- 9,417
- vs nation
- D+47.4
- Lead
- 4,804
- Total
- 8,395
- vs nation
- D+53.4
- Lead
- 5,973
- Total
- 9,353
- vs nation
- D+56.6
- Lead
- 3,632
- Total
- 6,851
- vs nation
- D+55.5
- Lead
- 2,621
- Total
- 5,142
- vs nation
- D+50.5
- Lead
- 2,625
- Total
- 4,582
- vs nation
- D+48.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+36.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 28,4582024 5-year
- Population density
- 5.4 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 5,300 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $49,7592024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 7.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 26.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+73.7 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 69, NM · twin score 95.6
presidential history
Party record book
New Mexico 65th 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
86.5%
1,222 votes · D+73.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Jimmy Carter, 1976 · 82.5%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
36.3%
161 votes · D+27.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 33.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
8,124votes
73.9% of the vote · D+49.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 7,615 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
3,013votes
30.3% of the vote · D+36.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 2,635 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
George McGovern1972
+74.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+51.5 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +68.8 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−4.0pts R vs U.S.
Place D+23.5 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · −32.5 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+36.7, this Albuquerque-area district ranks among the state's most reliably blue seats, reflecting the dense urban core constituencies that drive statewide Democratic margins.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 73.7 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 13.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 36.7 points.
A population of 28,458, a 7% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $49,759 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 69 and State House District 58.
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 65th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/35065/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.