Mesilla, New Mexico is located in the county of Dona Ana and is home to 88046 residents. The town is governed by a mayor-council form of government, with the mayor and five council members each elected at large for three-year terms. The current Mayor is Nora Barraza and the council members are John Creer, Peter Ibarra, Francisco R. Marquez, Ernesto Chavez Jr., and Celina Montano. All local elections are nonpartisan and any registered voter may vote in all Mesilla elections. As a small town with only 88046 residents, Mesilla does not have many political candidates running for office apart from those mentioned above. However, all local elections offer an opportunity for voters to get involved in their community's politics through voting or supporting individual candidates.
The political climate in Zip 88046 (Mesilla, NM) is somewhat liberal.
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
Zip 88046 (Mesilla, NM) is somewhat liberal.
Mesilla, New Mexico is somewhat liberal.
Dona Ana County, New Mexico 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.
Mesilla, 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 88046 (Mesilla)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 173 contributions totaling $37,508 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $217 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 30 contributions totaling $13,326 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $444 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)