Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican The 1956 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 6, 1956.

New Mexico was won by incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower by a 16-point landslide.

[2] This election reflected one of the last election cycles where the Democratic Party still had their post Civil War political domination of the Deep South.

This was also the last United States presidential election when either major party nominee was born in the nineteenth century.

As of the 2024 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which Rio Arriba County and San Miguel County voted for a Republican presidential candidate.