- Lead
- 4,639
- Total
- 28,665
- vs nation
- D+17.7
New Mexico 9th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,852
- Total
- 29,408
- vs nation
- D+12.0
- Lead
- 2,420
- Total
- 25,250
- vs nation
- D+7.5
- Lead
- 2,494
- Total
- 22,982
- vs nation
- D+7.0
- Lead
- 4,480
- Total
- 24,945
- vs nation
- D+10.7
- Lead
- 291
- Total
- 19,750
- vs nation
- D+3.9
- Lead
- 170
- Total
- 14,512
- vs nation
- D+0.7
- Lead
- 983
- Total
- 12,397
- vs nation
- R+0.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+16.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 51,6912024 5-year
- Population density
- 354 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 146 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $79,1242024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 48.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 39.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+23.0 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+24.5 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 10, NM · twin score 90.9
presidential history
Party record book
New Mexico 9th State Senate 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
61.3%
2,207 votes · D+23.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 59.6%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
62.2%
1,635 votes · R+24.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 57.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
16,807votes
57.2% of the vote · D+16.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 16,338 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
11,955votes
40.7% of the vote · D+16.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 11,699 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
James M. Cox1920
+19.8pts D vs U.S.
Place R+6.4 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +17.7 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+21.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+2.4 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · +9.1 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
New Mexico 9th State Senate District sits in the desert Southwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 23.0 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 24.5 points in 1956. The 2024 margin was 16.2 points.
A population of 51,691, a 48% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $79,124 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 10 and State Senate District 20.
The state-senate 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 9th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/35009/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.