Roosevelt County, New Mexico is an area with a long and interesting political history. The county has had a variety of elected officials from both major parties who have served in local, state, and federal positions over the years. Currently, Roosevelt County is represented at the local level by two county commissioners and three county justices of the peace. The New Mexico State Legislature also provides representation to the local citizens with one member of the House of Representatives and one member of the Senate. Finally, Roosevelt County is part of the Congressional District Two, which means that residents are represented in Washington D.C. by a representative from either party depending on elections results. As a result, residents in Roosevelt County have access to diverse political perspectives which helps create healthy debate about important issues at all levels of government.
The political climate in Roosevelt County, NM is very conservative.
In Roosevelt County, NM 27.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 70.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Roosevelt county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 70.1% to 27.3%.
Roosevelt county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Roosevelt County, NM is very conservative.
Portales Metro Area is very conservative.
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.
Roosevelt, New Mexico: R R R R R R
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 Roosevelt County, NM
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 314 contributions totaling $23,173 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $74 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 173 contributions totaling $60,200 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $348 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)