El Paso (Las Cruces) · 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
80.1%
18,066 votes · D+61.0
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 75.4%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
60.2%
65,565 votes · R+21.3
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
226,892votes
64.5% of the vote · D+30.9
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 189,687 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
143,928votes
42.5% of the vote · D+13.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 118,327 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
+64.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+39.2 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944 · +38.3 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) · 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), by party and cycle.
Biden2Sanders226,751 votes · 4 of 4 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+13.5
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 0.6 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)
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
−6,080 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −79,168 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in El Paso (Las Cruces) in El Paso (Las Cruces): net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+5,971
2012
−1,007
2013
−15,216
2014
−10,518
2015
−14,933
2016
−7,872
2017
−5,602
2018
−6,872
2019
−4,060
2021
−893
2022
−4,669
2023
−2,911
2024
−4,506
2025
−6,080
Spanning El Paso and Las Cruces, this majority-Hispanic media market sits at the U.S.-Mexico boundary, producing consistently high Democratic margins at the federal level while local races often turn on turnout gaps between the two anchor cities.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 61.0 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 21.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 17.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 13.5 points.
A population of 1,100,643, a 14% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $59,167 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen and Albuquerque-Santa Fe.
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In 2024, El Paso (Las Cruces), Texas voted Democratic by 13.5 points (D+13.5), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 338,795 votes cast, 189,687 went Democratic and 143,928 went Republican.
When did El Paso (Las Cruces), Texas last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which El Paso (Las Cruces), Texas voted Republican was 1984.
How many people live in El Paso (Las Cruces), Texas?
El Paso (Las Cruces), Texas has a population of 1,100,643 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), Texas?
Median household income in El Paso (Las Cruces), 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), Texas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in El Paso (Las Cruces), Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 21 went Democratic and 8 went Republican.
