Albuquerque, NM · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1912–2024 · 29 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
62.4%
23,081 votes · D+25.4
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 58.6%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
62.9%
50,102 votes · R+26.1
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 62.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
250,952votes
57.9% of the vote · D+18.1
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 241,075 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
179,304votes
41.6% of the vote · D+14.3
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 172,445 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
+15.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+14.3 · U.S. R+1.5
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +13.6 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+33.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+13.8 · U.S. D+19.5
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +19.1 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Albuquerque, NM · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Albuquerque, NM, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026D+12.6
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+14.3
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 1.8 points.
Domestic migration in Albuquerque, NM in Albuquerque, NM: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+2,178
2012
−1,928
2013
−3,026
2014
−4,472
2015
−2,875
2016
−455
2017
+155
2018
+273
2019
+788
2021
+1,625
2022
−132
2023
+174
2024
−1,513
2025
+287
Greater Albuquerque anchors New Mexico's electoral map, with a majority-minority population and a research-and-military economy centered on Sandia and Kirtland that draws a highly educated workforce alongside longstanding Hispanic communities.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 25.4 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 26.1 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.3 points.
A population of 921,482, a 37% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $71,241 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Salinas, CA and Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA.
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Political twins — metros
The metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
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In 2024, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico voted Democratic by 14.3 points (D+14.3), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 430,840 votes cast, 241,075 went Democratic and 179,304 went Republican.
When did Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico?
Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico has a population of 921,482 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico?
Median household income in Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico is $71,241 — below the national median of $80,734. The New Mexico state median is $64,059.
What is the political history of Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 14 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
