- Lead
- 3,893
- Total
- 21,001
- vs nation
- D+20.0
New Mexico 26th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,073
- Total
- 21,085
- vs nation
- D+24.3
- Lead
- 4,545
- Total
- 17,336
- vs nation
- D+24.1
- Lead
- 4,377
- Total
- 17,116
- vs nation
- D+21.7
- Lead
- 5,621
- Total
- 18,146
- vs nation
- D+23.7
- Lead
- 2,271
- Total
- 16,062
- vs nation
- D+16.6
- Lead
- 1,506
- Total
- 12,716
- vs nation
- D+11.3
- Lead
- 1,639
- Total
- 11,356
- vs nation
- D+5.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+18.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 51,3302024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,842 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 10.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $64,4342024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 20.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 67.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+47.4 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+20.0 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 14, NM · twin score 98.6
presidential history
Party record book
New Mexico 26th 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
73.4%
1,044 votes · D+47.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 65.1%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
60.0%
2,356 votes · R+20.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 56.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
13,334votes
63.2% of the vote · D+28.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 12,225 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
8,332votes
39.7% of the vote · D+18.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 7,261 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
+37.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+11.2 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +27.9 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1968
+4.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+5.5 · U.S. R+0.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · +4.6 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Anchored in the Albuquerque metro, this district has delivered consistent double-digit Democratic margins at the presidential level, reflecting an urban and minority-majority electorate that tracks closely with Bernalillo County's broader voting patterns.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 47.4 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 20.0 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 10.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.5 points.
A population of 51,330, a 21% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,434 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 14 and State Senate District 11.
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 26th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/35026/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.