New Mexico Canvassing Board certifies election results
SANTA FE – New Mexico has now voted for Democratic presidential candidates in four consecutive elections, after the state Canvassing Board on Tuesday certified the state’s 2020 general election results.
President-elect Joe Biden won the state’s five electoral votes by defeating President Donald Trump, a Republican, by a sizable margin.
Based on official results, Biden won New Mexico by 10.8 percentage points this year over Trump. That’s up slightly from Democrat Hillary Clinton’s 8.3 point statewide victory over Trump in 2016.
Driven by an unprecedented surge of absentee ballots, New Mexico’s official voter turnout of 928,230 ballots cast set an all-time high.
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