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The2016 United States presidential election in New York was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, as part of the2016 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus theDistrict of Columbia participated.New York voters chose electors to represent them in theElectoral College via a popular vote, pitting theRepublican Party's nominee, businessmanDonald Trump, and running mateIndiana GovernorMike Pence againstDemocratic Party nominee, formerSecretary of StateHillary Clinton, and her running mate VirginiaSenatorTim Kaine. New York has 29 electoral votes in the Electoral College.[1]
Prior to the election, New York was considered to be a state that Clinton would win or a safeblue state. Despite Trump's association with the state, New York remained a Democratic stronghold with Clinton winning with 59.01% of the vote, while Trump received 36.52% of the vote, a 22.49% Democratic margin of victory. On Election Day, Clinton was immediately declared the winner of New York when polls closed based on exit polling alone.
Despite Clinton's landslide victory, Trump won more counties, taking 45 counties statewide compared to Clinton's 17.[2] Trump also flipped 19 counties that had voted forBarack Obama in2012, tied withMinnesota for the third-most countiesflipped in any state; onlyIowa andWisconsin had more. Clinton received a smaller vote share than outgoing PresidentBarack Obama had in 2012, while Trump improved onMitt Romney's performance despite losing the state by a large margin.
New York was the home state of both major party nominees, though Clinton was born and raised inChicago. Trump was born and raised inNew York City and has been long associated with the state. Clinton has been a resident ofChappaqua in suburbanWestchester County since 1999 and represented the state in theU.S. Senate from 2001 to 2009. Trump became the second consecutive major-party presidential nominee to lose his home state by over 20 points, after Mitt Romney, who lost his home state ofMassachusetts by a similar margin in2012. Before Romney, the last nominee this happened to wasHerbert Hoover in his home state ofCalifornia during1932. Trump also became the fourth winning presidential candidate to lose his state of residence, afterJames K. Polk,Woodrow Wilson, andRichard Nixon. Trump and Polk are the only ones to have lost their state of birth as well (also New York in Trump's case).
The election also marks the most recent cycle in which Trump would be on the presidential ballot as a legal resident of New York state; according to court filings, he registeredPalm Beach, Florida, as his "primary residence" in 2019.[3]This is the first time since1956 in which New York voted more Republican thanCalifornia, which has also occurred in every subsequent election.
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On April 19, 2016, in thepresidential primaries, New York voters expressed their preferences for theDemocratic andRepublican parties' respective nominees for president. Registered members of each party only voted in their party's primary, while voters who were unaffiliated with either party didn't vote in the primary.[4]
Two candidates appeared on the Democratic presidential primary ballot:[5]
Similarly to the general election, both candidates in the Democratic primary had a connection to New York, as New York was Clinton's adopted home state and the birthplace of Sanders (who was running from neighboringVermont).
| New York Democratic primary, April 19, 2016 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Popular vote | Estimated delegates | |||
| Count | Percentage | Pledged | Unpledged | Total | |
| Hillary Clinton | 1,133,980 | 57.54% | 139 | 41 | 180 |
| Bernie Sanders | 820,056 | 41.62% | 108 | 0 | 108 |
| Void | 11,306 | 0.57% | |||
| Blank votes | 5,358 | 0.27% | |||
| Uncommitted | N/a | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
| Total | 1,970,900 | 100% | 247 | 44 | 291 |
| Source:[6][7] | |||||
Three candidates appeared on the Republican presidential primary ballot:[5]
| Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Actual delegate count | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bound | Unbound | Total | |||
| Donald Trump | 554,522 | 59.21% | 89 | 0 | 89 |
| John Kasich | 231,166 | 24.68% | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Ted Cruz | 136,083 | 14.53% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Blank & Void | 14,756 | 1.58% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unprojected delegates: | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total: | 936,527 | 100.00% | 95 | 0 | 95 |
| Source:The Green Papers | |||||
| Source | Ranking | As of |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles Times[8] | Safe D | November 6, 2016 |
| CNN[9] | Safe D | November 4, 2016 |
| Cook Political Report[10] | Safe D | November 7, 2016 |
| Electoral-vote.com[11] | Safe D | November 8, 2016 |
| Rothenberg Political Report[12] | Safe D | November 7, 2016 |
| Sabato's Crystal Ball[13] | Safe D | November 7, 2016 |
| RealClearPolitics[14] | Safe D | November 8, 2016 |
| Fox News[15] | Safe D | November 7, 2016 |
Polls projected New York to remain safely in the Democratic column for former Senator Hillary Clinton, despite it also being the home state of Donald Trump for his entire life. The last poll showed Hillary Clinton leading Trump 51% to 34%, and the average of the final 3 polls statewide showed Clinton leading Trump 52% to 31%, which was accurate compared to the results.[16]
Thefirst Presidential Debate took place at Hofstra University. Snap polls indicated that Clinton won.
New York is a fusion state, which means that candidates are allowed to be on multiple lines.Those on the ballot were:
Democratic, Women's Equality and Working Families Parties
Conservative and Republican parties
Green party
Independence and Libertarian parties
Gary Johnson and Bill Weld were nominated by the Libertarian and Independence Parties using separate elector slates. Their votes have been added together in the below table for convenience.[17]
With the introduction of computerized voting, write-in candidates were permitted. The following is a certified list of persons who made valid presidential write in filings with the State Board of Elections[18]
According toThe New York Times, only 300 write-in votes were counted in 2012,[19] while 63,239 were recorded as "Blank, Void or Scattering".[20]
| 2016 United States presidential election in New York[21] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | Hillary Clinton | Tim Kaine | 4,379,783 | 56.08% | ||
| Working Families | Hillary Clinton | Tim Kaine | 140,043 | 1.83% | ||
| Women's Equality | Hillary Clinton | Tim Kaine | 36,292 | 0.47% | ||
| Total | Hillary Clinton | Tim Kaine | 4,556,118 | 59.38% | 29 | |
| Republican | Donald Trump | Mike Pence | 2,527,141 | 32.94% | ||
| Conservative | Donald Trump | Mike Pence | 292,392 | 3.81% | ||
| Total | Donald Trump | Mike Pence | 2,819,533 | 36.75% | 0 | |
| Independence | Gary Johnson | Bill Weld | 119,160 | 1.55% | 0 | |
| Libertarian | Gary Johnson | Bill Weld | 57,438 | 0.75% | 0 | |
| Total | Gary Johnson | Bill Weld | 176,598 | 2.30% | ||
| Green | Jill Stein | Ajamu Baraka | 107,935 | 1.41% | 0 | |
| Official write-in | Evan McMullin | Mindy Finn | 10,397 | 0.14% | 0 | |
| Official write-in | Others | Others | 2,518 | 0.03% | 0 | |
| Totals | 7,673,099 | 100.00% | 29 | |||
| 2016 Presidential Election in New York City | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Staten Island | Total | |||
| Democratic- Working Families- Women's Equality | Hillary Clinton | 579,013 | 353,646 | 640,553 | 517,220 | 78,143 | 2,159,575 | 78.99% | |
| 86.6% | 88.5% | 79.5% | 75.4% | 41.0% | |||||
| Republican- Conservative | Donald Trump | 64,930 | 37,797 | 141,044 | 149,341 | 101,437 | 494,549 | 18.1% | |
| 9.7% | 9.5% | 17.5% | 21.8% | 56.1% | |||||
| Others | Others | 24,997 | 8,079 | 24,008 | 19,832 | 5,380 | 82,296 | 3.0% | |
| 3.7% | 2.0% | 3.0% | 2.9% | 3.0% | |||||
| TOTAL | 668,940 | 399,522 | 805,605 | 686,393 | 184,960 | 2,736,420 | 100.00% | ||
Clinton won 47 of 51New York City Council districts, including one held by a Republican, while Trump won 4 of 51 city council districts, including two held by Democrats.[22]
| District | Clinton | Trump | City-Council Member |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 83.3% | 12.6% | Margaret Chin |
| 2nd | 86.6% | 9.3% | Rosie Méndez |
| 3rd | 87.1% | 9.0% | Corey Johnson |
| 4th | 78.1% | 17.5% | Daniel Garodnick |
| 5th | 80.1% | 15.5% | Ben Kallos |
| 6th | 87.2% | 9.0% | Helen Rosenthal |
| 7th | 91.9% | 4.8% | Mark Levine |
| 8th | 92.8% | 5.0% | Melissa Mark-Viverito |
| 9th | 94.6% | 2.7% | Inez Dickens |
| 10th | 89.8% | 7.1% | Ydanis Rodriguez |
| 11th | 81.5% | 15.1% | Andrew Cohen |
| 12th | 94.1% | 4.3% | Andy King |
| 13th | 66.6% | 30.5% | James Vacca |
| 14th | 93.0% | 5.3% | Fernando Cabrera |
| 15th | 92.1% | 6.1% | Ritchie Torres |
| 16th | 94.8% | 3.9% | Vanessa Gibson |
| 17th | 93.5% | 4.8% | Rafael Salamanca |
| 18th | 91.6% | 6.6% | Annabel Palma |
| 19th | 54.6% | 41.9% | Paul Vallone |
| 20th | 69.0% | 28.1% | Peter Koo |
| 21st | 87.3% | 10.5% | Julissa Ferreras |
| 22nd | 77.3% | 18.5% | Costa Constantinides |
| 23rd | 71.0% | 26.2% | Barry Grodenchik |
| 24th | 72.3% | 24.7% | Rory Lancman |
| 25th | 80.0% | 17.0% | Daniel Dromm |
| 26th | 82.1% | 14.4% | Jimmy Van Bramer |
| 27th | 94.8% | 3.7% | Daneek Miller |
| 28th | 91.2% | 7.4% | Adrienne Adams |
| 29th | 68.8% | 27.4% | Karen Koslowitz |
| 30th | 56.4% | 39.9% | Elizabeth Crowley |
| 31st | 89.1% | 9.0% | Donovan Richards |
| 32nd | 59.6% | 37.6% | Eric Ulrich |
| 33rd | 85.6% | 10.4% | Stephen Levin |
| 34th | 89.1% | 7.2% | Antonio Reynoso |
| 35th | 91.6% | 5.3% | Laurie Cumbo |
| 36th | 95.1% | 1.9% | Robert Cornegy |
| 37th | 91.8% | 5.5% | Rafael Espinal |
| 38th | 79.7% | 16.8% | Carlos Menchaca |
| 39th | 85.0% | 11.4% | Brad Lander |
| 40th | 91.9% | 5.3% | Mathieu Eugene |
| 41st | 95.6% | 2.7% | Darlene Mealy |
| 42nd | 95.2% | 3.5% | Inez Barron |
| 43rd | 54.7% | 40.9% | Vincent J. Gentile |
| 44th | 31.4% | 64.5% | David G. Greenfield |
| 45th | 84.2% | 13.6% | Jumaane Williams |
| 46th | 75.0% | 22.8% | Alan Maisel |
| 47th | 54.2% | 43.0% | Mark Treyger |
| 48th | 38.8% | 58.1% | Chaim Deutsch |
| 49th | 67.1% | 29.6% | Debi Rose |
| 50th | 34.9% | 62.0% | Steven Matteo |
| 51st | 25.5% | 71.9% | Joe Borelli |
| County | Hillary Clinton Democratic | Donald Trump Republican | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Albany | 83,071 | 59.41% | 47,808 | 34.19% | 8,939 | 6.40% | 35,263 | 25.22% | 139,818 |
| Allegany | 4,882 | 26.12% | 12,525 | 67.01% | 1,285 | 6.87% | -7,643 | -40.89% | 18,692 |
| Bronx | 353,646 | 88.52% | 37,797 | 9.46% | 8,079 | 2.02% | 315,849 | 79.06% | 399,522 |
| Broome | 39,212 | 45.56% | 40,943 | 47.57% | 5,917 | 6.87% | -1,731 | -2.01% | 86,072 |
| Cattaraugus | 9,497 | 30.48% | 19,692 | 63.19% | 1,972 | 6.33% | -10,195 | -32.71% | 31,161 |
| Cayuga | 13,522 | 40.76% | 17,384 | 52.41% | 2,266 | 6.83% | -3,862 | -11.65% | 33,172 |
| Chautauqua | 19,091 | 35.20% | 31,594 | 58.25% | 3,549 | 6.55% | -12,503 | -23.05% | 54,234 |
| Chemung | 13,757 | 38.09% | 20,097 | 55.64% | 2,265 | 6.27% | -6,340 | -17.55% | 36,119 |
| Chenango | 6,775 | 33.61% | 11,921 | 59.13% | 1,464 | 7.26% | -5,146 | -25.52% | 20,160 |
| Clinton | 15,059 | 46.91% | 14,449 | 45.01% | 2,597 | 8.08% | 610 | 1.90% | 32,105 |
| Columbia | 15,284 | 49.46% | 13,756 | 44.51% | 1,862 | 6.03% | 1,528 | 4.95% | 30,902 |
| Cortland | 8,771 | 43.33% | 9,900 | 48.90% | 1,573 | 7.77% | -1,129 | -5.57% | 20,244 |
| Delaware | 6,627 | 33.48% | 11,942 | 60.34% | 1,223 | 6.18% | -5,315 | -26.86% | 19,792 |
| Dutchess | 62,285 | 47.54% | 61,821 | 47.19% | 6,912 | 5.27% | 464 | 0.35% | 131,018 |
| Erie | 215,456 | 50.86% | 188,303 | 44.45% | 19,866 | 4.69% | 27,153 | 6.41% | 423,625 |
| Essex | 7,762 | 45.08% | 7,958 | 46.22% | 1,498 | 8.70% | -196 | -1.14% | 17,218 |
| Franklin | 7,297 | 43.05% | 8,221 | 48.50% | 1,434 | 8.45% | -924 | -5.45% | 16,952 |
| Fulton | 6,496 | 30.62% | 13,462 | 63.46% | 1,256 | 5.92% | -6,966 | -32.84% | 21,214 |
| Genesee | 7,650 | 28.94% | 16,915 | 63.99% | 1,867 | 7.07% | -9,265 | -35.05% | 26,432 |
| Greene | 7,405 | 33.58% | 13,073 | 59.29% | 1,572 | 7.13% | -5,668 | -25.71% | 22,050 |
| Hamilton | 949 | 29.43% | 2,064 | 64.00% | 212 | 6.57% | -1,115 | -34.57% | 3,225 |
| Herkimer | 8,083 | 30.79% | 16,699 | 63.60% | 1,473 | 5.61% | -8,616 | -32.81% | 26,255 |
| Jefferson | 13,809 | 36.12% | 21,763 | 56.92% | 2,664 | 6.96% | -7,954 | -20.80% | 38,236 |
| Kings | 640,553 | 79.51% | 141,044 | 17.51% | 24,008 | 2.98% | 499,509 | 62.00% | 805,605 |
| Lewis | 3,146 | 27.78% | 7,400 | 65.34% | 779 | 6.88% | -4,254 | -37.56% | 11,325 |
| Livingston | 10,697 | 35.62% | 17,290 | 57.57% | 2,044 | 6.81% | -6,593 | -21.95% | 30,031 |
| Madison | 11,667 | 38.81% | 15,936 | 53.01% | 2,461 | 8.18% | -4,269 | -14.20% | 30,064 |
| Monroe | 188,592 | 54.23% | 136,582 | 39.27% | 22,616 | 6.50% | 52,010 | 14.94% | 347,790 |
| Montgomery | 6,595 | 34.61% | 11,301 | 59.31% | 1,158 | 6.08% | -4,706 | -24.70% | 19,054 |
| Nassau | 332,154 | 51.33% | 292,025 | 45.13% | 22,943 | 3.54% | 40,129 | 6.20% | 647,122 |
| New York | 579,013 | 86.56% | 64,930 | 9.71% | 24,997 | 3.73% | 514,083 | 76.85% | 668,940 |
| Niagara | 35,559 | 38.48% | 51,961 | 56.23% | 4,882 | 5.29% | -16,402 | -17.75% | 92,402 |
| Oneida | 33,743 | 37.08% | 51,437 | 56.52% | 5,829 | 6.40% | -17,694 | -19.44% | 91,009 |
| Onondaga | 112,337 | 53.89% | 83,649 | 40.13% | 12,454 | 5.98% | 28,688 | 13.76% | 208,440 |
| Ontario | 22,233 | 42.33% | 26,029 | 49.55% | 4,265 | 8.12% | -3,796 | -7.22% | 52,527 |
| Orange | 68,278 | 44.91% | 76,645 | 50.42% | 7,098 | 4.67% | -8,367 | -5.51% | 152,021 |
| Orleans | 4,470 | 27.29% | 10,936 | 66.76% | 974 | 5.95% | -6,466 | -39.47% | 16,380 |
| Oswego | 17,095 | 35.48% | 27,688 | 57.47% | 3,397 | 7.05% | -10,593 | -21.99% | 48,180 |
| Otsego | 10,451 | 40.72% | 13,308 | 51.85% | 1,909 | 7.43% | -2,857 | -11.13% | 25,668 |
| Putnam | 19,366 | 39.88% | 27,024 | 55.65% | 2,173 | 4.47% | -7,658 | -15.77% | 48,563 |
| Queens | 517,220 | 75.35% | 149,341 | 21.76% | 19,832 | 2.89% | 367,879 | 53.59% | 686,393 |
| Rensselaer | 32,717 | 45.72% | 33,726 | 47.13% | 5,119 | 7.15% | -1,009 | -1.41% | 71,562 |
| Richmond | 74,143 | 40.97% | 101,437 | 56.05% | 5,380 | 2.98% | -27,294 | -15.08% | 180,960 |
| Rockland | 69,342 | 51.33% | 60,911 | 45.09% | 4,834 | 3.58% | 8,431 | 6.24% | 135,087 |
| Saratoga | 50,913 | 44.62% | 54,575 | 47.83% | 8,606 | 7.55% | -3,662 | -3.21% | 114,094 |
| Schenectady | 33,747 | 50.16% | 28,953 | 43.03% | 4,580 | 6.81% | 4,794 | 7.13% | 67,280 |
| Schoharie | 4,240 | 30.18% | 8,831 | 62.85% | 979 | 6.97% | -4,591 | -32.67% | 14,050 |
| Schuyler | 3,091 | 35.24% | 5,050 | 57.57% | 631 | 7.19% | -1,959 | -22.33% | 8,772 |
| Seneca | 5,697 | 40.75% | 7,236 | 51.76% | 1,047 | 7.49% | -1,539 | -11.01% | 13,980 |
| St. Lawrence | 16,488 | 42.11% | 19,942 | 50.93% | 2,728 | 6.96% | -3,454 | -8.82% | 39,158 |
| Steuben | 12,526 | 29.82% | 26,831 | 63.88% | 2,645 | 6.30% | -14,305 | -34.06% | 42,002 |
| Suffolk | 303,951 | 44.62% | 350,570 | 51.46% | 26,733 | 3.92% | -46,619 | -6.84% | 681,254 |
| Sullivan | 12,568 | 41.96% | 15,931 | 53.18% | 1,456 | 4.86% | -3,363 | -11.22% | 29,955 |
| Tioga | 7,526 | 33.75% | 13,260 | 59.46% | 1,513 | 6.79% | -5,734 | -25.71% | 22,299 |
| Tompkins | 28,890 | 67.69% | 10,371 | 24.30% | 3,417 | 8.01% | 18,519 | 43.39% | 42,678 |
| Ulster | 44,597 | 52.29% | 35,239 | 41.32% | 5,454 | 6.39% | 9,358 | 10.97% | 85,290 |
| Warren | 13,091 | 41.68% | 15,751 | 50.15% | 2,566 | 8.17% | -2,660 | -8.47% | 31,408 |
| Washington | 9,098 | 37.09% | 13,610 | 55.49% | 1,820 | 7.42% | -4,512 | -18.40% | 24,528 |
| Wayne | 13,473 | 33.95% | 23,380 | 58.91% | 2,834 | 7.14% | -9,907 | -24.96% | 39,687 |
| Westchester | 272,926 | 64.88% | 131,238 | 31.20% | 16,491 | 3.92% | 141,688 | 33.68% | 420,655 |
| Wyoming | 3,904 | 22.57% | 12,442 | 71.93% | 952 | 5.50% | -8,538 | -49.36% | 17,298 |
| Yates | 3,659 | 36.35% | 5,660 | 56.23% | 747 | 7.42% | -2,001 | -19.88% | 10,066 |
| Totals | 4,556,142 | 59.00% | 2,819,557 | 36.51% | 346,096 | 4.49% | 1,736,585 | 22.49% | 7,721,795 |
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Clinton won 18 of 27 congressional districts. Both Trump and Clinton won a district held by the other party.[24]
| District | Clinton | Trump | Representative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 42% | 54% | Lee Zeldin |
| 2nd | 44% | 53% | Peter T. King |
| 3rd | 51% | 45% | Steve Israel |
| Thomas Suozzi | |||
| 4th | 53% | 43% | Kathleen Rice |
| 5th | 85% | 13% | Gregory Meeks |
| 6th | 65% | 32% | Grace Meng |
| 7th | 86% | 10% | Nydia Velázquez |
| 8th | 84% | 13% | Hakeem Jeffries |
| 9th | 83% | 14% | Yvette Clarke |
| 10th | 77% | 19% | Jerry Nadler |
| 11th | 44% | 53% | Dan Donovan |
| 12th | 82% | 13% | Carolyn Maloney |
| 13th | 92% | 5% | Charles B. Rangel |
| Adriano Espaillat | |||
| 14th | 77% | 20% | Joe Crowley |
| 15th | 94% | 5% | Jose Serrano |
| 16th | 75% | 22% | Eliot Engel |
| 17th | 58% | 38% | Nita Lowey |
| 18th | 47% | 49% | Sean Patrick Maloney |
| 19th | 44% | 50% | John Faso |
| 20th | 53% | 40% | Paul Tonko |
| 21st | 39% | 53% | Elise Stefanik |
| 22nd | 39% | 54% | Richard L. Hanna |
| Claudia Tenney | |||
| 23rd | 39% | 54% | Tom Reed |
| 24th | 49% | 45% | John Katko |
| 25th | 55% | 39% | Louise Slaughter |
| 26th | 57% | 38% | Brian Higgins |
| 27th | 35% | 59% | Chris Collins |
Reflecting a strong nationwide trend of rural areas swinging hard against Clinton, Trump improved greatly upon recent Republican performances in ruralUpstate New York. Upstate New York was historically a staunchly Republican region, although it had been trending Democratic since the 1990s, and Democrat Barack Obama had twice performed very strongly across both urban and rural upstate in the preceding two elections. Trump won 19 counties in New York State that voted for President Obama in 2012, 17 of which were rural upstate counties. Clinton won Upstate New York's traditionally Democratic cities and held onto the urban counties upstate. However, Trump also made gains in urban parts of upstate, which had long been in economic decline, due to his strength in economically distressed areas and his appeal to working-class whites who traditionally vote Democratic. Trump's message on trade policy and pledge to halt joboutsourcing appealed strongly to theRust Belt region of the United States, where many local economies had been ravaged by the loss of industrial jobs, which extends into Upstate New York cities likeBinghamton,Buffalo,Rochester, andSyracuse.
InErie County, where Buffalo is located inWestern New York bordering theGreat Lakes, Clinton won only 51-44 compared with Obama's 57–41 victory in 2012. Clinton suffered her strongest swings against her in traditionally DemocraticNorthern New York along theSaint Lawrence River. The only upstate county where Clinton won by a stronger margin than Obama had in 2012 was the liberal Democratic stronghold ofTompkins County, home to the college town ofIthaca whereCornell University is located. Clinton and Obama both received 68% in the county, but Trump's unpopularity with young people and students led him to fall to only 24% of the vote compared with 28% for Romney. Hillary Clinton's landslide statewide win was powered by an overwhelmingly lopsided victory in the massively populated five boroughs ofNew York City, the largest city in the United States, despite Donald Trump's longtime popular cultural association with the city. In New York City, Hillary Clinton received 2,164,575 votes (79.0% of the vote) compared with only 494,549 votes (18.0% of the vote) for Donald Trump. This represented a slight fall from Barack Obama's historic 81.2% in the city in 2012, and the borough ofStaten Island flipped from Obama to Trump. However, Trump's percentage was virtually unchanged from Romney's 17.8%. With huge victories in the other four boroughs, Clinton's 60.9% victory margin over Trump was a slight decrease from Obama's record 63.4% margin over Romney, making Clinton's win the second-widest victory margin for a presidential candidate in New York City history.
Trump's birthplace borough ofQueens gave Clinton over 75% of the vote and less than 22% to Trump. InManhattan, home toTrump Tower, Trump's famous landmark residence, Clinton received nearly 87% while Trump received less than 10% of the vote, the worst performance ever for a major party presidential candidate in Manhattan. This made Trump's home borough one of only 3 counties in the state where Trump did worse than Mitt Romney had in 2012, along with Westchester and Tompkins counties. In the populated suburbs around New York City, Hillary Clinton won overall, although, with the sole exception of her county of residence, there were strong swings against her compared with President Obama's performance. The downstate suburban counties around the city were historically Republican bastions, until Hillary's husbandBill Clinton made dramatic suburban gains for Democrats in the 1990s and easily swept every suburban New York county in his1996 re-election campaign. North of the city, Clinton significantly further improved on Barack Obama's landslide margin in wealthyWestchester County, where the Clintons own their primary residence inChappaqua, New York. Clinton won Westchester County 65-31 compared with Obama's 62–37 victory over Mitt Romney. Conversely, Trump made major gains onLong Island, as Clinton wonNassau County by only a slightly reduced 6-point margin rather than the 8-point margin by which Obama had won it, whileSuffolk County saw an even bigger swing, going from a 4-point win for Obama to a 7-point win for Trump, the first Republican victory in the county since 1992. Broome and Niagara counties voted Republican for the first time since 1984, while Rensselaer, Franklin, and St. Lawrence counties did so for the first time since 1988.[25]
While heavily Democratic New York City had secured consistent Democratic landslides in New York State for 3 decades, since 1992 every Democratic presidential candidate would have still carried New York State even without the massive Democratic vote margins provided by the 5 boroughs, albeit by substantially closer margins. In 2012, Obama won New York State outside of New York City with 54.03% of the vote compared with Mitt Romney's 44.54%. With Donald Trump having made major gains over Romney's performance across Upstate New York and improving overall in suburban downstate, Hillary Clinton was heavily dependent on New York City for her victory; her margin of 1,724,416 votes in the Five Boroughs accounted for almost all of her statewide majority. Clinton did manage to continue the Democratic winning streak in New York State outside of New York City, albeit just barely. Removing the 5 boroughs of New York City from the result, Clinton received 2,391,549 votes while Trump received 2,324,985 votes, meaning Clinton would have won New York State without the city by 66,564 votes, a margin of 1.4% out of all statewide votes cast outside of the city. However, when removing the ten counties in the state that are part of theNew York metropolitan area (The Boroughs, Long Island, and Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester Counties), Trump became the first Republican to carryUpstate sinceGeorge H. W. Bush did so in 1988, obtaining 1,463,217 votes in the state's other 52 counties compared to Clinton's 1,393,810 votes, a margin of 69,407 votes, thoughGeorge W. Bush came within 8,056 votes ofJohn Kerry in Upstate during the 2004 election. The2016 United States Senate election in New York held on the same day turned notably different. While Clinton only carried 12 upstate counties,Chuck Schumer won all counties in New York state except 5 and captured over 70% of the vote. As of the2024 United States presidential election, this is the most recent presidential election where the following counties voted Republican:Broome,Essex,Rensselaer, andSaratoga.
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