Las Cruces, 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
68.4%
5,544 votes · D+37.6
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 67.6%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
66.3%
2,627 votes · R+33.0
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 60.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
47,957votes
58.0% of the vote · D+18.3
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 45,937 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
37,594votes
44.0% of the vote · D+9.8
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 32,802 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
+18.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+36.6 · U.S. D+17.8
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +15.7 pts
Republican
Charles E. Hughes1916
+22.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+19.5 · U.S. D+3.1
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · +20.4 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Las Cruces, 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: Dona Ana 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 Las Cruces, 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+14.1
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+9.8
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 4.4 points more Republican than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Las Cruces, NM in Las Cruces, NM: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+857
2012
−503
2013
−2,369
2014
−1,884
2015
−1,798
2016
−944
2017
+68
2018
−15
2019
−224
2021
+1,151
2022
+1,010
2023
+1,000
2024
+825
2025
+580
Home to New Mexico State University and roughly 60 miles from El Paso, Las Cruces blends a majority-Hispanic population with a transient student demographic, producing turnout patterns that diverge noticeably from the surrounding Doña Ana County precincts.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 37.6 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 33.0 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 8.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 9.8 points.
A population of 224,266, a 27% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $56,848 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of El Paso, TX and Albuquerque, NM.
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The metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
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In 2024, Las Cruces, NM, New Mexico voted Democratic by 9.8 points (D+9.8), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 85,407 votes cast, 45,937 went Democratic and 37,594 went Republican.
When did Las Cruces, NM, New Mexico last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Las Cruces, NM, New Mexico voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Las Cruces, NM, New Mexico?
Las Cruces, NM, New Mexico has a population of 224,266 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Las Cruces, NM, New Mexico?
Median household income in Las Cruces, NM, New Mexico is $56,848 — below the national median of $80,734. The New Mexico state median is $64,059.
What is the political history of Las Cruces, NM, New Mexico?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Las Cruces, NM, New Mexico from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 16 went Democratic and 13 went Republican.
