- Lead
- 256
- Total
- 26,750
- vs nation
- D+0.5
New Mexico 12th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 461
- Total
- 26,163
- vs nation
- R+2.7
- Lead
- 1,228
- Total
- 21,101
- vs nation
- R+7.9
- Lead
- 1,137
- Total
- 19,211
- vs nation
- R+9.8
- Lead
- 41
- Total
- 20,397
- vs nation
- R+7.1
- Lead
- 2,702
- Total
- 16,872
- vs nation
- R+13.6
- Lead
- 1,992
- Total
- 12,632
- vs nation
- R+16.3
- Lead
- 928
- Total
- 10,798
- vs nation
- R+17.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+1.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 51,6812024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,564 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 14.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $83,9932024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 43.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 43.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+5.1 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+40.7 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 40, NM · twin score 95.3
presidential history
Party record book
New Mexico 12th 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
52.2%
1,859 votes · D+5.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 51.1%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
70.3%
1,916 votes · R+40.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 67.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
12,996votes
49.7% of the vote · D+1.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 12,956 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
13,212votes
49.4% of the vote · R+1.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 12,535 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
Kamala Harris2024
+0.5pts D vs U.S.
Place R+1.0 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · −0.5 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+33.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+13.9 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · +25.3 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
New Mexico 12th State Senate District sits in the desert Southwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 5.1 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 40.7 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.0 points.
A population of 51,681, a 44% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $83,993 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 40 and State Senate District 23.
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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