The small town of Ranchos De Taos, NM (87557) is part of Taos County in Northern New Mexico. Politically, the county leans Democratic and is represented by a few local politicians. In the United States House of Representatives, there are two members representing the area: Ben Ray Lujan and Debra Haaland. At the state level, many represent Taos County including Senator Mark Moores who is also a Republican representing District 28. On the local level, citizens of Ranchos De Taos can look to their city council for representation. The current mayor is Juan Enciso Martinez and other council members include Mariano Telles, Javier Rivas Triana, Maria-Jose Goldsmith and Robert Nadon. The city council meets regularly to address issues such as infrastructure projects, economic development initiatives, public safety concerns and other community matters that citizens have brought up at their meetings.
The political climate in Zip 87557 (Ranchos De Taos, NM) is strongly liberal.
Taos County, NM is very liberal. In Taos County, NM 76.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 21.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Taos county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 76.4% to 21.6%.
Taos county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 87557 (Ranchos De Taos, NM) is strongly liberal.
Ranchos De Taos, New Mexico is strongly liberal.
Taos County, New Mexico is very liberal.
Taos Metro Area is very 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.
Ranchos De Taos, 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 zip 87557 (Ranchos De Taos)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 681 contributions totaling $47,927 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $70 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 55 contributions totaling $4,064 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $74 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)