New Mexico

Congressional Races:
Districts: 1 | 2 | 3

Senatorial Race

Population (1994): 1,654,000 (up 9.1% from 1990), 0.6% of U.S. total

Voting-age population: 1,167,000; 1994 turnout, 39%

Median age: 31.3 years

Median household income: $26,905 ($5,259 below U.S. median)

Unemployment: 6.7% (1.1% above U.S. average, March 1996)

Last presidential election:

Clinton (D): 46%

Bush (R): 37%

Perot (I): 16%

Congressional delegation: Three Republicans, two Democrats

New Mexico has the fifth-largest land area in the U.S., and its culture is as expansive as its mountains and high plateaus. More than most states, it is a combination of high-profile extremes: trendy settlers are moving to the towns east of Santa Fe, living in the same kind of adobe buildings that housed the Pueblo Indians hundreds of years before Europeans set foot on this continent. Now artists share the land with the scientists at Los Alamos, and there is a larger percentage of Hispanic people there--38%--than in any other state. Politically, the state is a bellwether, having supported the victorious President almost invariably since Woodrow Wilson in 1912.

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