1984 United States presidential election in New Mexico

Summary

The 1984 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 6, 1984. All fifty states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1984 United States presidential election. State voters chose five electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States. New Mexico was won by incumbent United States President Ronald Reagan of California, who was running against former Vice President Walter Mondale of Minnesota. Reagan ran for a second time with incumbent Vice President former C.I.A. Director George H. W. Bush of Texas, and Mondale ran with Representative Geraldine Ferraro of New York, the first major female candidate for the vice presidency.

1984 United States presidential election in New Mexico

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Nominee Ronald Reagan Walter Mondale
Party Republican Democratic
Home state California Minnesota
Running mate George H. W. Bush Geraldine Ferraro
Electoral vote 5 0
Popular vote 307,101 201,769
Percentage 59.70% 39.23%

County Results

President before election

Ronald Reagan
Republican

Elected President

Ronald Reagan
Republican

The presidential election of 1984 was a very partisan election for New Mexico, with more than 98 percent of the electorate voting for either the Democratic or Republican parties.[1] In typical form for the time, the highly populated counties of Bernalillo and Los Alamos turned out mainly Republican. Meanwhile, the ongoing Democratic stronghold in the northern part of the state, inclusive of Santa Fe County and Rio Arriba County, is evident during this election.

New Mexico weighed in for this election as 1% more Republican than the national average. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Guadalupe County and the only election in which recently created Cibola County voted for a Republican presidential candidate.[2] In addition, this is also the most recent presidential election when the Republican candidate won the state by a double-digit margin.

Reagan won the election in New Mexico with a resounding 20-point sweep, making New Mexico 2.3% more Republican than the nation at large. No Republican candidate has received as strong of support in the American West at large as Reagan did.

Results edit

1984 United States presidential election in New Mexico
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican
307,101 59.70% +4.73
Democratic 201,769 39.23% +2.45
Libertarian 4,459 0.87% −0.09
Citizens 455 0.09% −0.39
Socialist Workers 224 0.07% ±0.00
Prohibition
206 0.04% −0.24
New Alliance 155 0.03% N/A
Write-in 1 0.00%
Total votes 514,370 100.00%
Republican win

Results by county edit

County Ronald Wilson Reagan
Republican
Walter Frederick Mondale
Democratic
David Peter Bergland[3]
Libertarian
Various candidates[3]
Other parties
Margin
% # % # % # % # % #
Lincoln 77.04% 3,992 21.88% 1,134 0.89% 46 0.19% 10 55.15% 2,858
Lea 75.26% 14,569 23.55% 4,558 1.07% 207 0.12% 23 51.72% 10,011
Union 74.44% 1,503 24.17% 488 1.19% 24 0.20% 4 50.27% 1,015
Curry 74.01% 9,188 25.03% 3,108 0.85% 105 0.11% 14 48.97% 6,080
Chaves 73.37% 15,248 25.66% 5,332 0.77% 159 0.21% 43 47.71% 9,916
Roosevelt 72.26% 4,598 26.65% 1,696 0.97% 62 0.11% 7 45.61% 2,902
Los Alamos 69.60% 6,882 28.91% 2,859 1.31% 130 0.17% 17 40.69% 4,023
Otero 69.22% 9,751 29.58% 4,167 1.00% 141 0.20% 28 39.64% 5,584
Catron 68.55% 970 29.54% 418 1.70% 24 0.21% 3 39.01% 552
San Juan 66.97% 18,690 32.11% 8,963 0.70% 195 0.34% 95 34.85% 9,727
Quay 66.82% 2,842 32.17% 1,368 0.80% 34 0.21% 9 34.66% 1,474
Sierra 66.00% 2,663 33.09% 1,335 0.79% 32 0.12% 5 32.91% 1,328
De Baca 65.23% 756 33.30% 386 1.21% 14 0.26% 3 31.92% 370
Torrance 64.02% 2,326 35.07% 1,274 0.77% 28 0.14% 5 28.96% 1,052
Harding 63.55% 401 35.50% 224 0.79% 5 0.16% 1 28.05% 177
Eddy 60.99% 11,810 38.03% 7,364 0.70% 136 0.28% 55 22.96% 4,446
Doña Ana 60.87% 22,153 38.13% 13,878 0.74% 270 0.25% 92 22.74% 8,275
Valencia 60.32% 8,474 38.39% 5,393 1.13% 159 0.16% 23 21.93% 3,081
Bernalillo 60.08% 104,694 38.90% 67,789 0.82% 1,437 0.20% 342 21.18% 36,905
Hidalgo 59.32% 1,282 39.80% 860 0.65% 14 0.23% 5 19.53% 422
Luna 58.33% 4,145 40.63% 2,887 0.82% 58 0.23% 16 17.70% 1,258
Socorro 56.27% 3,403 42.01% 2,541 1.44% 87 0.28% 17 14.25% 862
Sandoval 55.43% 9,005 43.58% 7,080 0.85% 138 0.14% 23 11.85% 1,925
Colfax 54.59% 2,994 44.39% 2,435 0.75% 41 0.27% 15 10.19% 559
Cibola 53.09% 3,578 46.59% 3,140 0.15% 10 0.18% 12 6.50% 438
Guadalupe 50.36% 990 48.12% 946 1.22% 24 0.31% 6 2.24% 44
Santa Fe 45.98% 15,886 52.85% 18,262 0.98% 338 0.19% 66 -6.88% -2,376
Grant 45.93% 4,979 53.09% 5,755 0.75% 81 0.23% 25 -7.16% -776
McKinley 44.78% 6,557 54.05% 7,915 0.83% 121 0.34% 50 -9.27% -1,358
Mora 44.47% 1,017 54.00% 1,235 1.27% 29 0.26% 6 -9.53% -218
Taos 44.04% 4,154 54.54% 5,144 1.24% 117 0.18% 17 -10.50% -990
San Miguel 39.38% 3,485 59.06% 5,227 1.28% 113 0.28% 25 -19.68% -1,742
Rio Arriba 36.93% 4,116 62.25% 6,938 0.72% 80 0.11% 12 -25.32% -2,822

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "1984 Presidential General Election Results – New Mexico". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
  2. ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  3. ^ a b "NM US President Race, November 06, 1984". Our Campaigns.