Las Vegas, 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 Las Vegas, 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+43.2
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+25.9
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 17 points more Republican than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Las Vegas, NM in Las Vegas, NM: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−250
2012
−498
2013
−450
2014
−517
2015
−380
2016
−283
2017
−296
2018
−259
2019
−180
2021
+122
2022
−126
2023
−130
2024
−101
2025
−61
San Miguel County, anchored by Las Vegas, NM, has delivered Democratic margins exceeding 70% in recent presidential cycles, driven by a majority-Hispanic electorate with deep New Mexican roots dating to Spanish colonial settlement.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 60.1 points in 2008 and a Republican high of 14.5 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 11.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 25.9 points.
A population of 30,999, a 19% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $49,997 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Española, NM and Taos, NM.
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In 2024, Las Vegas, NM, New Mexico voted Democratic by 25.9 points (D+25.9), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 13,595 votes cast, 8,424 went Democratic and 4,897 went Republican.
When did Las Vegas, NM, New Mexico last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Las Vegas, NM, New Mexico voted Republican was 1968.
How many people live in Las Vegas, NM, New Mexico?
Las Vegas, NM, New Mexico has a population of 30,999 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Las Vegas, NM, New Mexico?
Median household income in Las Vegas, NM, New Mexico is $49,997 — below the national median of $80,734. The New Mexico state median is $64,059.
What is the political history of Las Vegas, NM, New Mexico?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Las Vegas, NM, New Mexico from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 20 went Democratic and 9 went Republican.
