The town of Tucumcari, NM is located in Quay County and has a population of around 5,400 people. Despite its small size, there is still bustling political activity going on in the area. Currently, the Mayor of Tucumcari is Robert Lumpkin who was elected to a four-year term in 2018. The town also has a city council who are responsible for making local decisions for the benefit of the community. Other political representatives from the region include Neomi Martinez-Parra who serves as a State Senator and Dennis Roch who serves as a State Representative. They are both committed to improving the lives of their constituents and have worked hard to make sure that everyone in 88401 Tucumcari, NM can get access to what they need.
The political climate in Zip 88401 (Tucumcari, NM) is strongly conservative.
Quay County, NM is very conservative. In Quay County, NM 30.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 68.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Quay county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 68.0% to 30.2%.
Quay county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 88401 (Tucumcari, NM) is strongly conservative.
Tucumcari, New Mexico is strongly conservative.
Quay County, New Mexico is very conservative.
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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.
Tucumcari, 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 zip 88401 (Tucumcari)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 239 contributions totaling $10,092 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $42 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 54 contributions totaling $7,427 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $138 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)