1960 United States presidential election in New Mexico

none June 2025 September 2023 1960 United States presidential election 1960 United States presidential election in New Mexico New Mexico presidential no 1956 United States presidential election in New Mexico 1956 1964 United States presidential election in New Mexico 1964 November 8, 1960 x200px Jfk2 (3x4).jpg John F. Kennedy Democratic Party (United States) Massachusetts Lyndon B. Johnson 4 156,027 50.15% Richard Nixon official portrait as Vice President (cropped).tiff Richard Nixon Republican Party (United States) California Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. 0 153,733 49.41% 1960 United States presidential election in New Mexico results map by county.svg 265px County results Kennedy #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% Nixon #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% President Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Party (United States) John F. Kennedy Democratic Party (United States) The 1960 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 8, 1960. This was the first year where all 50 current states were part of the 1960 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. In its early days New Mexico had been divided between largely Republican machine-run highland regions and its firmly Southern Democrat "Little Texas" region in its east.Chilton, Lance; New Mexico: A Guide to the Colorful State, p. 95 0826307329 However, with a shift of these machine-run regions to the Democratic Party, the state became very largely a one-party Democratic state in the years following the New Deal,Burnham, Walter Dean; 'The System of 1896: An Analysis'; in The Evolution of American Electoral Systems, pp. 178-179 0313213798 although Republicans – despite being severely faction-riddenJudah, Charles B. (1949); The Republican Party in New Mexico: A Challenge to Constructive Leadership – retained strength in many highland counties. Despite the GOP recapturing the governorship under Edwin L. Mechem in 1950 and retaining it for all but one term up to this point,Irion, Frederick C.; 'The 1960 Election in New Mexico', The Western Political Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1, part 2 (March 1961), pp. 350-354 the state's electorate was overwhelmingly aligned with the Democratic Party. The nomination by the Democratic Party of a Roman Catholic in Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy introduced major complications into likely voting behavior. In 1928, Al Smith had lost most of his party's traditional support in the Baptist "Little Texas" region due to his Catholic faith and Tammany Hall links.Phillips, Kevin P; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 461 978-0-691-16324-6 However, increasing Mexican-American voting and the power of older Hispanic Catholic voting meant that there was a potential counterweight to this trend,Menendez, Albert J.; The Religious Factor in the 1960 Presidential Election: An Analysis of the Kennedy Victory over Anti-Catholic Prejudice, p. 178 0786484934 whose power was seen in a wave of anti-Catholic pamphlets in the southeast.Deming Headlight, October 13 and 20, 1960 New Mexico was won by Kennedy by a narrow 1-point margin. His narrow win reflected a balancing of Catholic and anti-Catholic forces. In heavily Baptist Roosevelt County, Kennedy declined 15 percent from Adlai Stevenson II's share of the vote in 1956. In contrast, in traditionally Republican Socorro County – the solitary county won by Alf Landon in 1936 – Kennedy won 57 percent of the vote and became the first Democrat to win the county since 1932. Kennedy was also the first Democrat since 1936 to carry Mora County and the first since 1940 to win Santa Fe County. Both counties would become among the most Democratic in the state from the 1970s onwards. It is believed indeed that as many as 98 percent of Hispanic voters may have supported fellow Catholic Kennedy.Roybal, David; Taking on Giants: Fabián Chávez, Jr. and New Mexico Politics, p. 152 0826344364 In his first bid for the presidency, Republican nominee incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon was defeated in one of the closest elections in American history.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1960&fips=35&f=1&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 1960 Presidential General Election Results – New Mexico Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 2018-02-12 Nixon would later win New Mexico in both 1968 and 1972. Results 1960 United States presidential election in New Mexico Democratic Party (United States) John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson 156,027 50.15% +8.37 Republican Party (United States) Richard Nixon Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. 153,733 49.41% −8.40 Prohibition Party Rutherford Decker E. Harold Munn 777 0.25% +0.01 Socialist Labor Party of America Eric Hass Georgia Cozzini 570 0.18% +0.15 311,107 100.00% Democratic Party (United States) Results by county County John F. KennedyDemocratic Richard NixonRepublican Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % Bernalillo 40,908 47.53% 44,805 52.06% 348 0.41% -3,897 -4.53% 86,061 Catron 573 46.02% 671 53.90% 1 0.08% -98 -7.88% 1,245 Chaves 6,212 40.36% 9,089 59.05% 91 0.59% -2,877 -18.69% 15,392 Colfax 3,187 57.65% 2,316 41.90% 25 0.45% 871 15.75% 5,528 Curry 3,421 35.49% 6,153 63.83% 65 0.68% -2,732 -28.34% 9,639 De Baca 619 45.68% 734 54.17% 2 0.15% -115 -8.49% 1,355 Dona Ana 8,905 53.15% 7,789 46.49% 61 0.36% 1,116 6.66% 16,755 Eddy 8,707 51.89% 7,986 47.59% 87 0.52% 721 4.30% 16,780 Grant 4,378 63.74% 2,468 35.93% 22 0.33% 1,910 27.81% 6,868 Guadalupe 1,589 56.07% 1,242 43.82% 3 0.11% 347 12.25% 2,834 Harding 396 39.13% 616 60.87% 0 0.00% -220 -21.74% 1,012 Hidalgo 889 54.11% 750 45.65% 4 0.24% 139 8.46% 1,643 Lea 7,806 50.45% 7,548 48.78% 120 0.77% 258 1.67% 15,474 Lincoln 1,459 41.65% 2,042 58.29% 2 0.06% -583 -16.64% 3,503 Los Alamos 2,692 50.96% 2,574 48.72% 17 0.32% 118 2.24% 5,283 Luna 1,708 51.66% 1,583 47.88% 15 0.44% 125 3.78% 3,306 McKinley 5,599 56.60% 4,262 43.08% 32 0.32% 1,337 13.52% 9,893 Mora 1,458 51.94% 1,349 48.06% 0 0.00% 109 3.88% 2,807 Otero 4,916 52.15% 4,507 47.81% 3 0.04% 409 4.34% 9,426 Quay 2,050 43.58% 2,652 56.38% 2 0.04% -602 -12.80% 4,704 Rio Arriba 6,250 62.69% 3,716 37.28% 3 0.03% 2,534 25.41% 9,969 Roosevelt 1,761 30.34% 4,039 69.59% 4 0.07% -2,278 -39.25% 5,804 San Juan 5,370 40.73% 7,521 57.04% 294 2.23% -2,151 -16.31% 13,185 San Miguel 5,520 58.02% 3,988 41.92% 6 0.06% 1,532 16.10% 9,514 Sandoval 2,672 64.87% 1,447 35.13% 0 0.00% 1,225 29.74% 4,119 Santa Fe 10,385 58.05% 7,411 41.43% 94 0.52% 2,974 16.62% 17,890 Sierra 1,220 39.14% 1,890 60.64% 7 0.22% -670 -21.50% 3,117 Socorro 2,327 56.37% 1,796 43.51% 5 0.12% 531 12.86% 4,128 Taos 3,631 58.03% 2,620 41.87% 6 0.10% 1,011 16.16% 6,257 Torrance 1,308 45.35% 1,554 53.88% 22 0.77% -246 -8.53% 2,884 Union 1,068 38.75% 1,686 61.18% 2 0.07% -618 -22.43% 2,756 Valencia 7,043 58.81% 4,929 41.16% 4 0.03% 2,114 17.65% 11,976Totals156,02750.15%153,73349.41%1,3470.44%2,2940.74%311,107 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic 20em Colfax Doña Ana Guadalupe Los Alamos Hidalgo Luna McKinley Mora Otero Rio Arriba San Miguel Sandoval Santa Fe Socorro Valencia Taos References New Mexico Category:1960 New Mexico elections 1960