Silver City, 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: Grant 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 Silver City, 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+16.4
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+5.1
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 11 points more Republican than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Silver City, NM in Silver City, NM: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−99
2012
−63
2013
−128
2014
−239
2015
−474
2016
−243
2017
−307
2018
−293
2019
−221
2021
−128
2022
−14
2023
−57
2024
+154
2025
−85
Grant County's largest city anchors a sparsely populated corner of southwestern New Mexico where Latino majorities and a Western New Mexico University presence shape an electorate that leans Democratic in federal races by comfortable double-digit margins.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 43.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 8.5 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 5.1 points.
A population of 27,775, a 48% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $44,958 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Taos, NM and Las Vegas, NM.
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In 2024, Silver City, NM, New Mexico voted Democratic by 5.1 points (D+5.1), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 14,224 votes cast, 7,301 went Democratic and 6,580 went Republican.
When did Silver City, NM, New Mexico last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Silver City, NM, New Mexico voted Republican was 1980.
How many people live in Silver City, NM, New Mexico?
Silver City, NM, New Mexico has a population of 27,775 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Silver City, NM, New Mexico?
Median household income in Silver City, NM, New Mexico is $44,958 — below the national median of $80,734. The New Mexico state median is $64,059.
What is the political history of Silver City, NM, New Mexico?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Silver City, NM, New Mexico from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 25 went Democratic and 4 went Republican.
