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New Mexico presidential election results 2012

Barack Obama carried New Mexico by 10.15 points (79,547 votes), winning 5 electoral votes.

Electoral votes
5
Votes counted
783,758
NM result
D+10.2
Compared with the nation
6.3 pts more Democratic
Swing since 2008
5.0 pts to R

Statewide result

CandidatePartyVotesShareBarElectoral votes
Barack ObamaDemocratic415,33553.00%5
Mitt RomneyRepublican335,78842.80%—
Total votes783,758

Sources: nm.pdf · 2012

County resultsMIT Election Lab

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MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records)
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Bernalillo County: Barack Obama +16.4Cibola County: Barack Obama +23.8Eddy County: Mitt Romney +33.4Lincoln County: Mitt Romney +32.7Los Alamos County: Barack Obama +3.7San Juan County: Mitt Romney +28.1Socorro County: Barack Obama +18.6Colfax County: Barack Obama +2.2Guadalupe County: Barack Obama +43.6Harding County: Mitt Romney +11.1Lea County: Mitt Romney +49.8Mora County: Barack Obama +52.1Rio Arriba County: Barack Obama +52.6Roosevelt County: Mitt Romney +38.8Sandoval County: Barack Obama +5.3Santa Fe County: Barack Obama +51.1Torrance County: Mitt Romney +17.2Valencia County: Barack Obama +2.5Doña Ana County: Barack Obama +14.8Grant County: Barack Obama +13.4Quay County: Mitt Romney +22.1Union County: Mitt Romney +43.4De Baca County: Mitt Romney +33.1San Miguel County: Barack Obama +56.9Sierra County: Mitt Romney +18.9Taos County: Barack Obama +60.3Hidalgo County: Barack Obama +5.0Luna County: Mitt Romney +1.2McKinley County: Barack Obama +46.9Otero County: Mitt Romney +28.1Catron County: Mitt Romney +44.0Chaves County: Mitt Romney +32.0Curry County: Mitt Romney +38.4
Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.
County Barack ObamaMitt RomneyOthers TotalMargin
Bernalillo 150,739106,40813,822 270,969 16.4
Catron 5601,49469 2,123 44.0
Chaves 6,60413,088600 20,292 32.0
Cibola 4,9612,998284 8,243 23.8
Colfax 2,8282,699237 5,764 2.2
Curry 4,0229,251352 13,625 38.4
De Baca 28758629 902 33.1
Dona Ana 37,13927,3221,962 66,423 14.8
Eddy 6,14212,583544 19,269 33.4
Grant 7,0905,358454 12,902 13.4
Guadalupe 1,48855790 2,135 43.6
Harding 26032714 601 11.1
Hidalgo 99589941 1,935 5.0
Lea 4,08012,548387 17,015 49.8
Lincoln 2,9425,961339 9,242 32.7
Los Alamos 5,1914,796667 10,654 3.7
Luna 3,5833,670247 7,500 1.2
McKinley 15,8415,546542 21,929 46.9
Mora 1,95559561 2,611 52.1
Otero 6,82912,451732 20,012 28.1
Quay 1,3832,202122 3,707 22.1
Rio Arriba 11,4653,397481 15,343 52.6
Roosevelt 1,7274,043199 5,969 38.8
San Juan 15,85528,8491,533 46,237 28.1
San Miguel 8,8502,303356 11,509 56.9
Sandoval 27,23624,3872,456 54,079 5.3
Santa Fe 50,87215,5002,873 69,245 51.1
Sierra 1,9642,928210 5,102 18.9
Socorro 4,0582,722413 7,193 18.6
Taos 11,9782,730631 15,339 60.3
Torrance 2,4283,529445 6,402 17.2
Union 4721,23651 1,759 43.4
Valencia 13,51112,8251,392 27,728 2.5

Candidate votes as printed in the document. “Total” is the document’s total where it prints one, otherwise the sum of the candidate columns. Margin is the leading ticket’s lead in points over the second.

Notes on how this document was read
  • Secondary source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records).

Method: Machine-readable dataset; county sums checked against the state totals in The American Presidency Project summary (within 0.5% for both main tickets).

Certified state documentCertified

New Mexico Secretary of State, 2012 General Election Statewide Results (electionpeople.com, 944 of 944 sites reporting; printed 12/14/2012); US President and Vice President statewide by vote type (Absentee, Early Voting, Election Day, Total)
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Every ticket on the ballot, as printed in the certified document (the statewide table above groups minor candidates as “Others” when the source does).

All 6 tickets as printed in the document
Ticket (as printed)CodeVotesShare
BARACK OBAMA and JOE BIDEN DEMOCRATIC PARTY—415,33552.99%
MITT ROMNEY and PAUL RYAN REPUBLICAN PARTY—335,78842.84%
GARY JOHNSON and JAMES P. GRAY LIBERTARIAN PARTY—27,7883.55%
JILL STEIN and CHERI HONKALA GREEN PARTY—2,6910.34%
ROSS C. "ROCKY" ANDERSON and LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ NEW MEXICO INDEPENDENT PARTY—1,1740.15%
VIRGIL GOODE and JIM CLYMER CONSTITUTION PARTY—9820.13%
Notes on how this document was read
  • The office column (x < 100 pt) is ignored; the party line printed under each ticket is joined to the label.

Method: text layer: words grouped by baseline (pdfplumber), numeric tokens taken as the row's values under the spec's column labels; each row's digits matched against PyMuPDF's words (second extraction)

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Questions and answers

Who won New Mexico in 2012?

Barack Obama won New Mexico by 10.15 percentage points (79,547 votes).

How many electoral votes did New Mexico have in 2012?

New Mexico cast 5 electoral votes in 2012.

How many people voted for president in New Mexico in 2012?

783,758 votes were counted for president.

How many counties did each candidate win in New Mexico in 2012?

Barack Obama 17, Mitt Romney 16 (out of 33 counties with results).

How did New Mexico change from 2008 to 2012?

The margin moved 5.0 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 15.1 points to Democratic by 10.2 points.

Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data