The 1972 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 7, 1972. This was the fifteenth Presidential Election which New Mexico participated in. All fifty states plus The District of Columbia, were part of this

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. State voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College, who voted for the

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and

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Senator George McGovern was nominated to run against Nixon, and was defeated in one of the most lopsided elections in United States history. McGovern lost every state except

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to Nixon.

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was won by

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by a 24-point landslide, mirroring the national popular vote margin by a near-perfect amount and making New Mexico 1.3% more Republican than the nation-at-large. McGovern won only two counties: he comfortably won

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by 12.6 percentage points, and also won San Miguel County by 2.5 percentage points.Dave Leip’s Atlas of US Presidential Elections
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since 1928. The 1972 election remains the last when Santa Fe,

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or Mora Counties provided a Republican majority or plurality,Sullivan, Robert David
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''America Magazine'' in ''The National Catholic Review''; June 29, 2016 and Nixon won Mora County by a mere thirty votes. At the other extreme, solidly Republican Lea County in the Plains region was won by Nixon by 55.4 percent, and Lincoln County, which had not voted Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt’s

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landslide, by 55.9 percent.

Results

Results by county

References

{{State results of the 1972 U.S. presidential election 1972 New Mexico elections

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