- Lead
- 8,442
- Total
- 21,208
- vs nation
- D+41.3
New Mexico 13th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 10,260
- Total
- 22,051
- vs nation
- D+42.1
- Lead
- 8,243
- Total
- 19,540
- vs nation
- D+40.1
- Lead
- 8,358
- Total
- 19,074
- vs nation
- D+40.0
- Lead
- 10,094
- Total
- 20,445
- vs nation
- D+42.1
- Lead
- 6,020
- Total
- 17,531
- vs nation
- D+36.8
- Lead
- 4,342
- Total
- 13,917
- vs nation
- D+30.7
- Lead
- 4,003
- Total
- 12,645
- vs nation
- D+23.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+39.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 48,6632024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,496 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 19.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $49,2152024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 32.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 55.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+66.1 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 17, NM · twin score 94.6
presidential history
Party record book
New Mexico 13th 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
82.8%
1,359 votes · D+66.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 76.0%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
48.1%
1,890 votes · D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 46.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
15,888votes
72.1% of the vote · D+46.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 15,167 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
6,058votes
28.6% of the vote · D+39.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 5,686 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
+63.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+37.6 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +52.6 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−13.1pts R vs U.S.
Place D+32.6 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1968 · −14.3 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
New Mexico 13th State Senate District sits in the desert Southwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 66.1 points in 1936. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 39.8 points.
A population of 48,663, a 32% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $49,215 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 17 and State Senate District 24.
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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