The 1996 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 5, 1996. All fifty states and the District of Columbia, were part of the

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. State voters chose five electors to the Electoral College, which selected the

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and

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New Mexico ) , population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano) , seat = Santa Fe , LargestCity = Albuquerque , LargestMetro = Tiguex , OfficialLang = None , Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ke ...

was won by incumbent United States

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, who was running against

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Senator Bob Dole. Clinton ran a second time with former

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Senator

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as Vice President, and Dole ran with former New York Congressman Jack Kemp. New Mexico weighed in for this election as 1% more

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than the national average. The presidential election of 1996 was a very multi-partisan election for New Mexico, with nearly ten percent of the electorate voting for

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candidates, and two third-party candidates receiving more than 1% of the vote. The majority of

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in New Mexico turned out for Clinton, including the highly populated areas of

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and

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. In his second bid for the presidency, Ross Perot led the newly reformed Reform Party to gain over five percent of the votes in New Mexico, and to pull in support nationally as the most popular third-party candidate to run for United States Presidency in recent times. , this is the last election in which the following counties voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: Sierra,

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, and De Baca.Sullivan, Robert David
‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’
''America Magazine'' in ''The National Catholic Review''; June 29, 2016

Results

Results by county

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

* De Baca

References

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1996 1996 New Mexico elections

Results

Results by county

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

See also

References