2016 New Mexico Democratic presidential primary


The 2016 New Mexico Democratic presidential primary was held on June 7 in the U.S. state of New Mexico as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
The Democratic Party's primaries in California, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota were scheduled to be held the same day, as were the Republican primaries in the same five states, including their own New Mexico primary. Additionally, the Democratic Party held the North Dakota caucuses the same day.

Results

Results by county

CountyClintonVotesSandersVotes
Bernalillo49.1% 36,93750.9%38,247
Catron38.6%11561.4%183
Chaves56.6% 1,23843.4%950
Cibola51.5% 1,58648.5%1,494
Colfax56.2% 94943.8%740
Curry46.7% 67253.3%768
De Baca45.7% 9654.3%114
Doña Ana55.7% 9,09744.3%7,243
Eddy53.9% 1,56646.1%1,340
Grant50.1% 2,27249.9%2,267
Guadalupe54.7% 39945.3%330
Harding62.0% 7538.0%46
Hidalgo61.5% 51538.5%323
Lea52.0%70548.0%651
Lincoln49.4%51550.6%527
Los Alamos50.4% 1,42449.4%1,404
Luna56.2% 91743.8%714
McKinley59.1% 4,76140.9%3,299
Mora62.1% 98637.9%603
Otero52.7%1,32447.3%1,190
Quay51.5% 473 48.5%445
Rio Arriba60.2% 4,915 39.8%3,252
Roosevelt41.8% 281 58.2%392
Sandoval51.7%7,44848.3%6,958
San Juan52.5% 3,019 47.5%2,735
San Miguel59.4% 3,418 40.6%2,341
Santa Fe50.6%16,087 49.4%15,703
Sierra43.0%400 57.0%530
Socorro50.6% 1,050 49.4%1,024
Taos43.2%3,285 56.8%4,325
Torrance49.9%649 50.1%651
Union44.8% 154 55.2%190
Valencia52.1% 3,123 48.0%2,877
Total51.53%111,33448.47%104,741

Analysis

After being projected to win the state by double digits, Clinton managed a 3-point-win in New Mexico, thanks to support from majority non-white areas such as Doña Ana County which contains the city of Las Cruces and is majority Hispanic/Latino, as well as McKinley and San Juan which are largely Native American and include parts of the Navajo Nation and the Apache Nation. Clinton won by a narrow margin in Santa Fe. Sanders, meanwhile, won by a larger margin in Albuquerque, the state's largest city, and thus held Clinton to a very narrow margin statewide.