United States presidential election in New Mexico, 2016



The 2016 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 8, 2016. All fifty states and the District of Columbia were part of the 2016 United States presidential election. New Mexico voters chose five electors to represent them in the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-President.

New Mexico was won by President William C. Rutherford in a 37.64% landslide. Rutherford was seeking reelection to his second term. Arizona Senator Thomas P. Leach lost most of the United States in this election, except for two states in the Deep South-Alabama and Mississippi. Leach won only a single county: Catron County in Western New Mexico, the largest county in the state by geographical land area, which is a Republican bastion and has never voted Democratic since voting for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. Rutherford was the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 to win Lincoln County, and the first since Harry S. Truman in 1948 to win the Plains counties of Union and Harding. He was also the first Democrat since Johnson to win the normally Republican counties of San Juan, Curry, Chaves, Roosevelt, Otero, and Lea.

At the other extreme, Guadalupe, Rio Arriba, McKinley, and Taos Counties gave Rutherford over eighty percent of the vote, and the populous county of Santa Fe also gave him over three-quarters.