- Lead
- 3,870
- Total
- 19,600
- vs nation
- D+21.2
New Mexico 22nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,547
- Total
- 20,379
- vs nation
- D+27.7
- Lead
- 5,676
- Total
- 16,998
- vs nation
- D+31.3
- Lead
- 6,357
- Total
- 15,515
- vs nation
- D+37.1
- Lead
- 7,654
- Total
- 16,941
- vs nation
- D+37.9
- Lead
- 4,193
- Total
- 13,583
- vs nation
- D+33.3
- Lead
- 3,325
- Total
- 10,265
- vs nation
- D+31.9
- Lead
- 3,736
- Total
- 9,341
- vs nation
- D+31.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+19.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 49,0662024 5-year
- Population density
- 4.5 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 10,958 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $55,4662024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 13.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 18.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+47.6 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+30.3 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 4, NM · twin score 90.5
presidential history
Party record book
New Mexico 22nd 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
73.3%
3,009 votes · D+47.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 72.1%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
65.0%
997 votes · R+30.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 61.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
13,209votes
64.8% of the vote · D+32.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 12,211 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
7,588votes
38.7% of the vote · D+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 6,662 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
Michael Dukakis1988
+43.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+35.6 · U.S. R+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +39.5 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+39.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+19.9 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +14.5 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
With roughly 49,000 residents spread across a largely rural stretch of New Mexico, District 22 backed the 2024 Republican presidential ticket by about 10 points — a margin consistent with the area's ranching and small-town demographic profile.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 47.6 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 30.3 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 12.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 19.7 points.
A population of 49,066, a 14% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $55,466 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 4 and State Senate District 30.
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 22nd State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/35022/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.