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Although voter registration statewide has risen 5.5 percent since 2006, slightly fewer new voters are registering Republican, while Democrats’ registrations held steady.
Democrats still maintain a voter registration advantage in the state overall. Nearly half, 49 percent, of the voters in the state are registered Democrats, a rate unchanged since 2006. Republicans make up 32 percent of the electorate, but that number is down slightly from 33 percent in 2006.
Registration in Bernalillo County, the state’s most populous county, rose by 44,751. This is nearly 70 percent of the gain in statewide voter registrations since 2006 and an increase of 11 percent in the county itself. The gains are mostly from Democrats, with 28,088 more registered Democrats in 2010 than 2006, while Republicans gained 5,287 party members. Decline to state, known to some as independents, gained 8,011 voters and third-parties like the Green and Libertarian parties added 3,365 voters.
Sandoval County was another big gainer, with 13,342 more voters joining the voter rolls in that county. This is an increase of 17 percent since 2006. Here, Democrats added 6,337 voters in the last four years while Republicans added 4,831 voters. Another 1,435 registered as decline-to-state and 739 as third parties in the county.
Chaves County dropped the most voters since 2006, losing 2,846 voters from the voter rolls, a drop of 8.5 percent.
Doña Ana County is an interesting case, as it gained 4,381 voters in four years, but the largest gain came from decline-to-state voters. The county gained 2,271 decline-to-state voters, 1,860 registered Democrats and 602 registered to third parties. The Republican Party actually lost 352 registered Republicans between 2006 and 2010.
Here is the total amount of voters, by county, in both 2006 to 2010. To see a larger version of the chart, click on the title of the chart.
Here is the change by political party, by county, from 2006 to 2010. As with the first chart, to see a larger version, click on the title of the chart.
