Hobbs, NM · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1920–2024 · 27 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
87.0%
3,905 votes · D+74.7
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 86.0%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
80.1%
16,997 votes · R+61.6
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 79.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
8,862votes
55.6% of the vote · D+11.5
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 7,806 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
16,997votes
80.1% of the vote · R+61.6
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 16,531 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
John W. Davis1924
+81.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+56.3 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +73.5 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+64.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+59.6 · U.S. D+4.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · +60.1 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Hobbs, NM · which candidate this place backed 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 this place is a single county: Lea County, New Mexico. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Hobbs, 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 · 2026R+35.1
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+61.6
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 27 points more Republican than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Hobbs, NM in Hobbs, NM: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−165
2012
+523
2013
+1,311
2014
+870
2015
+462
2016
−1,943
2017
−1,864
2018
−97
2019
+923
2021
−1,965
2022
−1,450
2023
−620
2024
−281
2025
−386
Hobbs anchors Lea County's Permian Basin economy, and its modest Democratic lean in 2024 reflects a Latino-majority workforce whose voting patterns have shifted noticeably rightward over the past two cycles even as the margin held blue.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 76.2 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 61.6 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 61.6 points.
A population of 73,733, a 31% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $68,015 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Hereford, TX and Odessa, TX.
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In 2024, Hobbs, NM, New Mexico voted Republican by 61.6 points (R+61.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 21,209 votes cast, 3,930 went Democratic and 16,997 went Republican.
When did Hobbs, NM, New Mexico last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Hobbs, NM, New Mexico voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Hobbs, NM, New Mexico?
Hobbs, NM, New Mexico has a population of 73,733 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Hobbs, NM, New Mexico?
Median household income in Hobbs, NM, New Mexico is $68,015 — below the national median of $80,734. The New Mexico state median is $64,059.
What is the political history of Hobbs, NM, New Mexico?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Hobbs, NM, New Mexico from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 11 went Democratic and 16 went Republican.
