Doña Ana County in New Mexico is governed by numerous elected officials that are tasked with the responsibility of making decisions to improve the lives of its citizens. The county is headed by a county commission, which is made up of five commissioners representing different districts and a county manager. The commission is responsible for enacting legislation and setting fiscal budget allocations within the county. In addition to this, Doña Ana County also has an executive branch, consisting of an elected Sheriff, Treasurer, Assessor and Clerk. All these officials work together to ensure that services and programs are running smoothly for the people of Doña Ana County. There is also a judicial branch which includes district court judges, magistrate court judges as well as justices of the peace who preside over legal cases in the county. Overall, Doña Ana County offers its residents a fair and open political system that allows them to have their voices heard and make positive changes within their community.
The political climate in Dona Ana County, NM is moderately liberal.
In Dona Ana County, NM 58.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 39.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Dona Ana county remained very strongly Democratic, 58.0% to 39.7%.
Dona Ana county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Dona Ana County, NM is moderately liberal.
Las Cruces Metro Area is moderately liberal.
New Mexico is somewhat liberal.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Dona Ana, New Mexico: d d D D D D
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D for the Democrat and I for the Independent. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Dona Ana County, NM
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 13,081 contributions totaling $948,762 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $73 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,924 contributions totaling $500,079 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $260 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)