1928 United States presidential election in New Mexico

none June 2025 September 2023 1928 United States presidential election 1928 United States presidential election in New Mexico New Mexico presidential no 1924 United States presidential election in New Mexico 1924 1932 United States presidential election in New Mexico 1932 November 6, 1928 x200px Herbert Hoover - NARA - 532049.jpg Herbert Hoover Republican Party (United States) California Charles Curtis 3 69,645 59.01% Unsuccessful 1928.jpg Al Smith Democratic Party (United States) New York Joseph T. Robinson 0 48,211 40.85% 1928 United States presidential election in New Mexico results map by county.svg 265px County results Hoover #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% Smith #86b6f2 50–60% President Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) Herbert Hoover Republican Party (United States) The 1928 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 6, 1928. All contemporary forty-eight states were part of the 1928 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to represent them in the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. New Mexico had in its early history as a state shown itself, like all of the West at the time, to be very much a swing state, having backed Woodrow Wilson twice in 1912 and 1916 and then backed Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge in their landslide 1920 and 1924 victories. During this era – and indeed since the 1870s – New Mexico was divided between largely Republican machine-run highland regions and its firmly Southern Democrat Baptist "Little Texas" region in its east.Chilton, Lance; New Mexico: A Guide to the Colorful State, p. 95 0826307329 However, the nomination of Catholic Al Smith on the first ballot after almost all other Democrats sat the election outWarren, Kenneth F.; Encyclopedia of U.S. campaigns, elections, and electoral behavior: A-M, Volume 1, p. 620 1412954894 challenged the status quo. Fear ensued in the South, which had no experience of the Southern and Eastern European Catholic immigrants who were Smith's local constituency. Southern fundamentalist Protestants believed that Smith would allow papal and priestly leadership in the United States, which Protestantism was a reaction against.Whisenhunt, Donald W.; President Herbert Hoover, p. 69 1600214762 At the same time, there existed potential for a pro-Catholic swing in the traditional GOP Spanish-American mountain counties of the North. Polls in July regarded New Mexico as "doubtful",'National Election Possibilities: Sixteen States Classed as Doubtful'; Barron's, July 30, 1928 although these had taken little account of the religious issues that were to dominate the election. New Mexico was won by former Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover over New York Governor Al Smith in an 18-point landslide.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1928&fips=35&f=1&off=0&elect=0 1928 Presidential General Election Results – New Mexico Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 2018-02-15 In traditionally fiercely Democratic "Little Texas", anti-Catholic prejudice was identical to that which turned Texas and Oklahoma to HooverGarcia, F. Chris and Hain, Paul L.; New Mexico Government, p. 226 0826305601 and Smith retained just one of the eleven counties that had voted for John W. Davis in 1924. In the mountain counties of traditional Republican strength, by contrast, Hoover's losses proved minor, as the Catholic Hispanic areas could not identify with the urban New Yorker Smith.Hodgson, Illa D. and Garthwaite, Eloyse M.; 'New Mexico's Early Elections: Statehood to New Deal'; New Mexico Historical Review, January 1, 1995; vol. 70, issue 1, pp. 29-46 At this time the Republican Party was widely associated in the minds of many Americans with the economic success of the mid-1920s, although the post-Civil War Democratic stronghold in the Deep South was still evident by the time of this election. 978-0-8262-1090-6 Rutland Robert Allen The Republicans 1996 92 University of Missouri Press registration https://archive.org/details/republicansfroml00rutl_0/page/92 After this election, New Mexico would not vote for a Republican again until 1952. Herbert Hoover was the last Republican to win Grant County until Richard Nixon in 1972 and the last Republican to win Eddy County and Lea County until 1968. Additionally, McKinley County and Rio Arriba County would not vote Republican again until 1956. Hoover was the only Republican between New Mexico's statehood in 1911 and 1952 to carry Chaves County, Curry County, Hidalgo County, Quay County, and Roosevelt County. Results + General Election ResultsNew Mexico Secretary of State The New Mexico Blue Book, or State Official Register 1929 Santa Fe, New Mexico New Mexico Secretary of State New Mexico Election Returns 1911-1969 Santa Fe, New Mexico Party Pledged to Elector Votes Republican Party Herbert Hoover Thomas D. Burns Jr.69,645 Republican Party Herbert Hoover Gretchen Lyon69,616 Republican Party Herbert Hoover Jose Gonzales69,592 Democratic Party Al Smith Mrs. A. A. Jones48,211 Democratic Party Al Smith Robert W. Isaacs48,048 Democratic Party Al Smith Emmett Wirt48,025 Workers Party William Z. Foster John W. Blackburn158 Workers Party William Z. Foster C. M. Calkins156 Workers Party William Z. Foster L. R. Graces153Votes castBased on totals for highest elector on each ticket 118,077 Results by county County Herbert HooverRepublican Al SmithDemocratic William Z. FosterWorkers Margin Total votes castBased on the highest elector on each ticket # % # % # % # %Bernalillo8,72556.99%6,57242.92%140.09%2,15314.06%15,311Catron77464.77%42035.15%10.08%35429.62%1,195Chaves3,12469.48%1,36430.34%80.18%1,76039.15%4,496Colfax3,90456.29%3,02243.57%100.14%88212.72%6,936Curry1,96856.16%1,53043.66%60.17%43812.50%3,504De Baca47447.83%51451.87%30.30%-40-4.04%991Doña Ana3,14159.06%2,16940.79%80.15%97218.28%5,318Eddy1,61857.11%1,21242.78%30.11%40614.33%2,833Grant2,05850.69%1,99449.11%80.20%641.58%4,060Guadalupe1,71861.12%1,09338.88%00.00%62522.23%2,811Harding91655.72%72644.16%20.12%19011.56%1,644Hidalgo56152.38%50947.53%10.09%524.86%1,071Lea53752.96%47446.75%30.30%636.21%1,014Lincoln1,48964.32%82135.46%50.22%66828.86%2,315Luna86056.80%64742.73%70.46%21314.07%1,514McKinley2,07562.22%1,24737.39%130.39%82824.83%3,335Mora1,99852.62%1,79947.38%00.00%1995.24%3,797Otero1,25051.91%1,14847.67%100.42%1024.24%2,408Quay1,61650.26%1,59449.58%50.16%220.68%3,215Rio Arriba4,10962.67%2,44437.27%40.06%1,66525.39%6,557Roosevelt1,15751.10%1,09848.50%90.40%592.61%2,264San Juan1,43666.36%72433.46%40.18%71232.90%2,164San Miguel5,18459.26%3,56040.70%40.05%1,62418.56%8,748Sandoval1,70059.44%1,15940.52%10.03%54118.92%2,860Santa Fe4,63060.25%3,05139.70%40.05%1,57920.55%7,685Sierra76653.79%65746.14%10.07%1097.65%1,424Socorro1,94055.32%1,56444.60%30.09%37610.72%3,507Taos2,44156.98%1,84243.00%10.02%59913.98%4,284Torrance1,95864.54%1,07035.27%60.20%88829.27%3,034Union2,01859.35%1,30638.41%130.38%71220.94%3,400Valencia3,50079.87%88120.10%10.02%2,61959.77%4,382Total 69,64558.98%48,21140.83%1580.13%21,43418.15%118,077 Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Chaves Curry Eddy Grant Hidalgo Lea Otero Quay Roosevelt Union Notes References 2 New Mexico Category:1928 New Mexico elections 1928