El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-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
79.9%
17,827 votes · D+60.7
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 75.2%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
60.1%
65,010 votes · R+21.2
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 57.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
226,454votes
64.5% of the vote · D+30.9
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 189,368 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
143,477votes
42.4% of the vote · D+13.6
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 117,912 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
+64.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+39.0 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944 · +38.0 pts
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
+4.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+15.0 · U.S. R+10.8
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1980 · +4.2 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-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 El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM, by party and cycle.
Biden2Sanders126,164 votes · 3 of 3 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○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+13.6
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 0.5 points.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2026 (partial)
144,272
58,948
38,578
43,884
2,862
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−6,062 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −78,844 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM in El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+6,000
2012
−909
2013
−15,194
2014
−10,484
2015
−14,881
2016
−7,829
2017
−5,599
2018
−6,820
2019
−4,024
2021
−894
2022
−4,650
2023
−2,942
2024
−4,556
2025
−6,062
El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM sits in the Gulf South and Southern Plains. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 60.7 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 21.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 17.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 13.6 points.
A population of 1,098,448, a 14% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $59,167 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of McAllen-Edinburg, TX and Brownsville-Harlingen-Raymondville, TX.
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How did El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM, Texas vote in 2024?
In 2024, El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM, Texas voted Democratic by 13.6 points (D+13.6), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 338,014 votes cast, 189,368 went Democratic and 143,477 went Republican.
When did El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM, Texas last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM, Texas voted Republican was 1984.
How many people live in El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM, Texas?
El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM, Texas has a population of 1,098,448 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM, Texas?
Median household income in El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM, Texas is $59,167 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM, Texas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM, Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 21 went Democratic and 8 went Republican.
