United States presidential election in New Mexico, 1972

United States presidential election in New Mexico, 1972

November 7, 1972
Nominee Richard Nixon George McGovern Party Republican Democratic Home state California South Dakota Running mate Spiro Agnew Sargent Shriver (replacing Thomas Eagleton) Electoral vote 4 0 Popular vote 235,606 141,084 Percentage 61.1% 36.6%
President before election Richard Nixon Republican Elected President Richard Nixon Republican

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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 presidential election. New Mexico voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College, who voted for the President and Vice President. South Dakota 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 Massachusetts to Nixon.^[1]

New Mexico was won by President Richard Nixon by a 24-point landslide. McGovern won only two counties: he comfortably won Rio Arriba County by 12.6 percentage points, and also won San Miguel County by 2.5 percentage points.^[2] The 1972 election remains the last when Santa Fe, Taos or Mora Counties provided a Republican majority or plurality,^[3] 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 1936 landslide,^[3] by 55.9 percent.

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