United States presidential election in New Mexico, 2016 (Ferguson Scenario)



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, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-President.

New Mexico was won by President Henry T. Ferguson in a 19-point landslide. Ferguson was seeking reelection to his second term as President. Alabama Senator William H. Pryor, Jr. lost most of the United States in this election, except for his home state and its neighbors in the Deep South. Pryor won only five counties: Catron County and San Juan County in the western regions of the state, and Chaves, Lincoln, and Otero Counties in south-central New Mexico. Catron, Chaves, San Juan, and Otero Counties have not voted Democratic since Lyndon B. Johnson won them in 1964, and Lincoln County has not done so since 1936, when it voted for Franklin D. Roosevelt in his landslide reelection over Alf Landon. However, Ferguson was the first Democrat to win Harding County since Harry Truman had done so in 1948.

At the other extreme, seven predominantly Hispanic and Native American counties in northern New Mexico (Cibola, Guadalupe, McKinley, Mora, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe, and San Miguel) gave Ferguson more than seventy percent of the vote, and one, Taos County, even gave him more than eighty percent.