The 1976 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 2, 1976. All fifty states and

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were part of the

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. State voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. New Mexico was won by President

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by a 2-point lead. A very partisan election in New Mexico, only one percent of the electorate voted for third-party candidates. While Ford took the State of New Mexico, and much of the American Southwest and

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, Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter won the electoral college with 297 votes, and was elected president. A reliable bellwether state in presidential elections up to this point, this was the first election since gaining statehood that New Mexico did not back the winning presidential candidate, and the only time, as of 2020, that New Mexico did not back the national popular-vote winner (in

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and

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, it voted for the candidate who won the popular vote but not the electoral vote), giving it the longest current streak in the nation. It is also the only election a Democrat has won while losing New Mexico. , this is the last election in which Torrance County and

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voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.Sullivan, Robert David
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Results

Results by county

References

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1976 New Mexico elections