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1984 United States presidential election in New Mexico

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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 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.

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

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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

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County Ronald Reagan
Republican
Walter Mondale
Democratic
Various candidates
Other parties
Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # %
Bernalillo 104,694 60.08% 67,789 38.90% 1,779 1.02% 36,905 21.18% 174,262
Catron 970 68.55% 418 29.54% 27 1.91% 552 39.01% 1,415
Chaves 15,248 73.37% 5,332 25.66% 202 0.97% 9,916 47.71% 20,782
Cibola 3,578 53.09% 3,140 46.59% 22 0.32% 438 6.50% 6,740
Colfax 2,994 54.59% 2,435 44.39% 56 1.02% 559 10.20% 5,485
Curry 9,188 74.01% 3,108 25.03% 119 0.96% 6,080 48.98% 12,415
De Baca 756 65.23% 386 33.30% 17 1.47% 370 31.93% 1,159
Dona Ana 22,153 60.87% 13,878 38.13% 362 1.00% 8,275 22.74% 36,393
Eddy 11,810 60.99% 7,364 38.03% 191 0.98% 4,446 22.96% 19,365
Grant 4,979 45.93% 5,755 53.09% 106 0.98% -776 -7.16% 10,840
Guadalupe 990 50.36% 946 48.12% 30 1.52% 44 2.24% 1,966
Harding 401 63.55% 224 35.50% 6 0.95% 177 28.05% 631
Hidalgo 1,282 59.32% 860 39.80% 19 0.88% 422 19.52% 2,161
Lea 14,569 75.26% 4,558 23.55% 230 1.19% 10,011 51.71% 19,357
Lincoln 3,992 77.04% 1,134 21.88% 56 1.08% 2,858 55.16% 5,182
Los Alamos 6,882 69.60% 2,859 28.91% 147 1.49% 4,023 40.69% 9,888
Luna 4,145 61.17% 2,557 37.74% 74 1.09% 1,588 23.43% 6,776
McKinley 6,557 44.78% 7,915 54.05% 171 1.17% -1,358 -9.27% 14,643
Mora 1,017 44.47% 1,235 54.00% 35 1.53% -218 -9.53% 2,287
Otero 9,751 69.22% 4,167 29.58% 169 1.20% 5,584 39.64% 14,087
Quay 2,842 66.82% 1,368 32.17% 43 1.01% 1,474 34.65% 4,253
Rio Arriba 4,116 36.93% 6,938 62.25% 92 0.82% -2,822 -25.32% 11,146
Roosevelt 4,598 72.26% 1,696 26.65% 69 1.09% 2,902 45.61% 6,363
San Juan 18,690 66.97% 8,963 32.11% 257 0.92% 9,727 34.86% 27,910
San Miguel 3,485 39.38% 5,227 59.06% 138 1.56% -1,742 -19.68% 8,850
Sandoval 9,005 55.43% 7,080 43.58% 161 0.99% 36,905 21.18% 16,246
Santa Fe 15,886 45.98% 18,262 52.85% 404 1.17% -2,376 -6.87% 34,552
Sierra 2,663 66.00% 1,335 33.09% 37 0.91% 1,328 32.91% 4,035
Socorro 3,403 56.27% 2,541 42.01% 104 1.72% 862 14.26% 6,048
Taos 4,154 44.04% 5,144 54.54% 134 1.42% -990 -10.50% 9,432
Torrance 2,326 64.02% 1,274 35.07% 33 0.91% 1,052 28.95% 3,633
Union 1,503 74.44% 488 24.17% 28 1.39% 1,015 50.27% 2,019
Valencia 8,474 60.32% 5,393 38.39% 182 1.29% 3,081 21.93% 14,049
Totals 307,101 59.70% 201,769 39.23% 5,500 1.07% 105,332 20.47% 514,370

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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See also

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References

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  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