New Mexico · 2016 presidential election
New Mexico presidential election results 2016
Hillary Clinton carried New Mexico by 8.21 points (65,568 votes), winning 5 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 5
- Votes counted
- 798,318
- NM result
- D+8.2
- Compared with the nation
- 6.2 pts more Democratic
- Swing since 2012
- 1.9 pts to R
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hillary Clinton | Democratic | 385,234 | 48.30% | 5 | |
| Donald J. Trump | Republican | 319,666 | 40.00% | — | |
| Gary Johnson | Libertarian | 74,541 | 9.30% | — | |
| Total votes | 798,318 | ||||
County resultsMIT Election Lab
Download CSV| County | Hillary Clinton | Donald J. Trump | Others | Total | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bernalillo | 143,417 | 94,698 | 36,547 | 274,662 | 17.7 |
| Catron | 427 | 1,464 | 158 | 2,049 | 50.6 |
| Chaves | 5,534 | 12,872 | 1,865 | 20,271 | 36.2 |
| Cibola | 3,741 | 3,195 | 1,127 | 8,063 | 6.8 |
| Colfax | 2,129 | 2,585 | 618 | 5,332 | 8.6 |
| Curry | 3,121 | 9,035 | 1,214 | 13,370 | 44.2 |
| De Baca | 193 | 620 | 97 | 910 | 46.9 |
| Dona Ana | 37,947 | 25,374 | 7,327 | 70,648 | 17.8 |
| Eddy | 5,033 | 13,147 | 1,487 | 19,667 | 41.3 |
| Grant | 6,276 | 5,288 | 1,247 | 12,811 | 7.7 |
| Guadalupe | 970 | 595 | 262 | 1,827 | 20.5 |
| Harding | 156 | 311 | 60 | 527 | 29.4 |
| Hidalgo | 784 | 910 | 178 | 1,872 | 6.7 |
| Lea | 3,930 | 12,495 | 1,287 | 17,712 | 48.4 |
| Lincoln | 2,331 | 5,896 | 675 | 8,902 | 40.0 |
| Los Alamos | 5,562 | 3,359 | 1,964 | 10,885 | 20.2 |
| Luna | 3,195 | 3,478 | 622 | 7,295 | 3.9 |
| McKinley | 13,576 | 5,104 | 3,023 | 21,703 | 39.0 |
| Mora | 1,536 | 665 | 240 | 2,441 | 35.7 |
| Otero | 6,124 | 11,887 | 2,049 | 20,060 | 28.7 |
| Quay | 1,017 | 2,212 | 343 | 3,572 | 33.5 |
| Rio Arriba | 9,592 | 3,599 | 1,687 | 14,878 | 40.3 |
| Roosevelt | 1,454 | 3,884 | 612 | 5,950 | 40.8 |
| San Juan | 12,865 | 27,946 | 5,299 | 46,110 | 32.7 |
| San Miguel | 7,285 | 2,313 | 1,153 | 10,751 | 46.2 |
| Sandoval | 27,707 | 25,905 | 8,078 | 61,690 | 2.9 |
| Santa Fe | 50,793 | 14,332 | 6,309 | 71,434 | 51.0 |
| Sierra | 1,612 | 3,010 | 559 | 5,181 | 27.0 |
| Socorro | 3,313 | 2,616 | 939 | 6,868 | 10.1 |
| Taos | 10,668 | 2,727 | 1,865 | 15,260 | 52.0 |
| Torrance | 1,785 | 3,714 | 825 | 6,324 | 30.5 |
| Union | 320 | 1,216 | 166 | 1,702 | 52.6 |
| Valencia | 10,841 | 13,215 | 3,536 | 27,592 | 8.6 |
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
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 8 tickets as printed in the document
| Ticket (as printed) | Code | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON AND TIMOTHY MICHAEL KAINE | — | 385,234 | 48.26% |
| DONALD J TRUMP AND MICHAEL R PENCE | — | 319,666 | 40.04% |
| GARY JOHNSON AND BILL WELD | WELD | 74,541 | 9.34% |
| JILL STEIN AND AJAMU BARAKA | — | 9,879 | 1.24% |
| EVAN MCMULLIN AND NATHAN JOHNSON | — | 5,825 | 0.73% |
| DARRELL CASTLE AND SCOTT BRADLEY | — | 1,514 | 0.19% |
| GLORIA LA RIVA AND DENNIS BANKS | — | 1,184 | 0.15% |
| "ROCKY" ROQUE DE LA FUENTE AND MICHAEL STEINBERG | — | 475 | 0.06% |
Notes on how this document was read
- Ticket names wrap over up to three lines around the numbers; lines closer than 9 pt are one block.
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 2016?
Hillary Clinton won New Mexico by 8.21 percentage points (65,568 votes).
How many electoral votes did New Mexico have in 2016?
New Mexico cast 5 electoral votes in 2016.
How many people voted for president in New Mexico in 2016?
798,318 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in New Mexico in 2016?
Donald J. Trump 19, Hillary Clinton 14 (out of 33 counties with results).
How did New Mexico change from 2012 to 2016?
The margin moved 1.9 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 10.2 points to Democratic by 8.2 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data