- Lead
- 1,471
- Total
- 20,519
- vs nation
- D+8.6
New Mexico 36th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,178
- Total
- 20,061
- vs nation
- D+11.4
- Lead
- 2,404
- Total
- 17,718
- vs nation
- D+11.5
- Lead
- 1,702
- Total
- 16,645
- vs nation
- D+6.4
- Lead
- 2,247
- Total
- 17,297
- vs nation
- D+5.7
- Lead
- 89
- Total
- 15,560
- vs nation
- D+1.9
- Lead
- 144
- Total
- 11,773
- vs nation
- D+0.7
- Lead
- 842
- Total
- 11,038
- vs nation
- R+0.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+7.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 51,0752024 5-year
- Population density
- 133 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 384 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $47,5002024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 27.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 67.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+33.7 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+38.9 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 38, NM · twin score 98.8
presidential history
Party record book
New Mexico 36th 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
66.4%
1,359 votes · D+33.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 64.5%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
69.2%
711 votes · R+38.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 62.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
11,378votes
56.7% of the vote · D+15.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 10,759 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
9,288votes
45.3% of the vote · D+7.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 8,200 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
+12.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+30.4 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +11.5 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+28.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+9.2 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +28.0 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
New Mexico 36th State Senate District sits in the desert Southwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 33.7 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 38.9 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 7.2 points.
A population of 51,075, a 28% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $47,500 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 38 and State Senate District 37.
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 36th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/35036/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.