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.
Opinion polling
Results
Results by county
County Clinton Votes Sanders Votes Bernalillo 49.1% 36,937 50.9% 38,247 Catron 38.6% 115 61.4% 183 Chaves 56.6% 1,238 43.4% 950 Cibola 51.5% 1,586 48.5% 1,494 Colfax 56.2% 949 43.8% 740 Curry 46.7% 672 53.3% 768 De Baca 45.7% 96 54.3% 114 Doña Ana 55.7% 9,097 44.3% 7,243 Eddy 53.9% 1,566 46.1% 1,340 Grant 50.1% 2,272 49.9% 2,267 Guadalupe 54.7% 399 45.3% 330 Harding 62.0% 75 38.0% 46 Hidalgo 61.5% 515 38.5% 323 Lea 52.0% 705 48.0% 651 Lincoln 49.4% 515 50.6% 527 Los Alamos 50.4% 1,424 49.4% 1,404 Luna 56.2% 917 43.8% 714 McKinley 59.1% 4,761 40.9% 3,299 Mora 62.1% 986 37.9% 603 Otero 52.7% 1,324 47.3% 1,190 Quay 51.5% 473 48.5% 445 Rio Arriba 60.2% 4,915 39.8% 3,252 Roosevelt 41.8% 281 58.2% 392 Sandoval 51.7% 7,448 48.3% 6,958 San Juan 52.5% 3,019 47.5% 2,735 San Miguel 59.4% 3,418 40.6% 2,341 Santa Fe 50.6% 16,087 49.4% 15,703 Sierra 43.0% 400 57.0% 530 Socorro 50.6% 1,050 49.4% 1,024 Taos 43.2% 3,285 56.8% 4,325 Torrance 49.9% 649 50.1% 651 Union 44.8% 154 55.2% 190 Valencia 52.1% 3,123 48.0% 2,877Total 51.53% 111,334 48.47% 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.
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