Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Los Alamos, 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
Barack Obama2008
62.3%
309,260 votes · D+25.9
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 61.1%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
60.7%
31,804 votes · R+21.5
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 60.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
341,659votes
61.1% of the vote · D+24.5
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 328,003 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
214,973votes
38.6% of the vote · D+20.3
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 204,784 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
+21.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+20.3 · U.S. R+1.5
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +20.0 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+33.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+13.9 · U.S. D+19.5
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +16.2 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Los Alamos, 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-Santa Fe-Los Alamos, 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+19.0
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+20.3
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 1.3 points.
Domestic migration in Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Los Alamos, NM in Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Los Alamos, NM: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+1,836
2012
−2,599
2013
−4,210
2014
−5,674
2015
−3,901
2016
−212
2017
+733
2018
+185
2019
+1,318
2021
+2,247
2022
−352
2023
+110
2024
−1,181
2025
−105
Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Los Alamos, NM sits in the desert Southwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 25.9 points in 2008 and a Republican high of 21.5 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 4.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 20.3 points.
A population of 1,168,091, a 38% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $72,503 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM and Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI.
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Political twins — combined metros
The combined 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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How did Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Los Alamos, NM, New Mexico vote in 2024?
In 2024, Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Los Alamos, NM, New Mexico voted Democratic by 20.3 points (D+20.3), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 556,330 votes cast, 328,003 went Democratic and 214,973 went Republican.
When did Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Los Alamos, NM, New Mexico last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Los Alamos, NM, New Mexico voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Los Alamos, NM, New Mexico?
Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Los Alamos, NM, New Mexico has a population of 1,168,091 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Los Alamos, NM, New Mexico?
Median household income in Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Los Alamos, NM, New Mexico is $72,503 — below the national median of $80,734. The New Mexico state median is $64,059.
What is the political history of Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Los Alamos, NM, New Mexico?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Los Alamos, NM, New Mexico from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 15 went Democratic and 14 went Republican.
