- Lead
- 3,768
- Total
- 13,602
- vs nation
- D+29.2
New Mexico 17th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,710
- Total
- 14,827
- vs nation
- D+27.3
- Lead
- 3,332
- Total
- 12,852
- vs nation
- D+23.8
- Lead
- 3,200
- Total
- 12,548
- vs nation
- D+21.6
- Lead
- 4,086
- Total
- 13,277
- vs nation
- D+23.5
- Lead
- 1,675
- Total
- 11,692
- vs nation
- D+16.8
- Lead
- 1,122
- Total
- 9,377
- vs nation
- D+11.4
- Lead
- 1,175
- Total
- 8,554
- vs nation
- D+5.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+27.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 49,0322024 5-year
- Population density
- 6,286 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 7.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $42,8242024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 28.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 52.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+47.9 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+19.2 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 13, NM · twin score 94.6
presidential history
Party record book
New Mexico 17th 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
73.6%
777 votes · D+47.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 66.1%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
59.6%
1,690 votes · R+19.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 56.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
9,571votes
64.6% of the vote · D+31.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 8,592 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
4,932votes
42.2% of the vote · D+14.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 4,861 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
+35.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+9.6 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +29.2 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+9.0pts R vs U.S.
Place D+10.5 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1968 · +4.5 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
New Mexico 17th State Senate District sits in the desert Southwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 47.9 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 19.2 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 27.7 points.
A population of 49,032, a 28% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $42,824 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 13 and State Senate District 26.
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.
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New Mexico 17th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/35017/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.