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Election 1880 Results

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1880 presidential election in New York

James A. Garfield (Republican) beat Winfield Scott Hancock (Democrat) in New York in 1880, 50.3% to 48.4%, a margin of 1.9 points and 21,033 votes.

New York voted 1.8 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+0.1.

New York changed party: in 1876 it went Democratic, for Samuel J. Tilden.

Republicans led in 46 of the 60 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 14. The largest, New York, cast 205,381 votes and went to the Democrat by 20.1 points. The closest was Otsego, where 28 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
James A. Garfield won Republican 555,544 50.3%
Winfield Scott Hancock Democratic 534,511 48.4%
All other candidates 13,890 1.3%
Total1,103,945

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
New York 123,015 59.9% 81,730 39.8% 636 205,381 D+20.1
Kings 61,062 53.9% 51,751 45.7% 516 113,329 D+8.2
Erie 20,848 45.8% 24,199 53.2% 442 45,489 R+7.4
Albany 19,624 53.7% 16,564 45.3% 354 36,542 D+8.4
Monroe 13,742 44.1% 17,102 54.9% 327 31,171 R+10.8
Onondaga 11,732 41.8% 16,153 57.5% 187 28,072 R+15.7
Oneida 12,600 45.8% 14,546 52.8% 393 27,539 R+7.1
Rensselaer 13,031 48.2% 13,672 50.6% 340 27,043 R+2.4
Westchester 11,858 50.9% 11,367 48.8% 90 23,315 D+2.1
Orange 9,672 48.5% 10,088 50.6% 166 19,926 R+2.1
Ulster 9,870 49.5% 9,994 50.2% 62 19,926 R+0.6
Steuben 8,992 45.4% 10,245 51.7% 588 19,825 R+6.3
Dutchess 8,475 43.1% 11,045 56.2% 121 19,641 R+13.1
St. Lawrence 5,835 29.7% 13,748 70.1% 34 19,617 R+40.3
Queens 10,391 55.7% 8,151 43.7% 99 18,641 D+12.0
Oswego 6,746 38.6% 10,236 58.5% 505 17,487 R+20.0
Jefferson 7,216 43.2% 9,439 56.5% 49 16,704 R+13.3
Chautauqua 5,472 33.1% 10,422 63.0% 649 16,543 R+29.9
Cayuga 5,976 37.6% 9,372 58.9% 564 15,912 R+21.3
Otsego 7,184 49.3% 7,156 49.1% 235 14,575 D+0.2
Saratoga 5,808 41.5% 8,116 58.0% 68 13,992 R+16.5
Cattaraugus 5,466 40.2% 7,401 54.5% 715 13,582 R+14.2
Wayne 5,207 39.9% 7,600 58.2% 255 13,062 R+18.3
Broome 5,450 42.5% 7,173 55.9% 203 12,826 R+13.4
Ontario 5,767 45.4% 6,774 53.3% 159 12,700 R+7.9
Suffolk 6,061 48.0% 6,515 51.5% 64 12,640 R+3.6
Niagara 5,937 47.4% 6,478 51.7% 104 12,519 R+4.3
Columbia 5,992 47.9% 6,486 51.9% 19 12,497 R+4.0
Washington 4,145 34.6% 7,779 64.9% 62 11,986 R+30.3
Madison 4,683 40.0% 6,793 58.0% 242 11,718 R+18.0
Herkimer 5,070 44.0% 6,331 54.9% 130 11,531 R+10.9
Delaware 5,084 44.6% 6,058 53.2% 250 11,392 R+8.5
Chenango 4,559 41.3% 5,769 52.2% 715 11,043 R+11.0
Allegany 3,482 32.2% 6,827 63.2% 496 10,805 R+31.0
Chemung 4,806 46.1% 4,636 44.5% 979 10,421 D+1.6
Clinton 4,250 40.8% 6,080 58.4% 74 10,404 R+17.6
Montgomery 4,947 48.4% 5,230 51.2% 35 10,212 R+2.8
Livingston 4,242 42.7% 5,522 55.5% 181 9,945 R+12.9
Tompkins 3,956 42.9% 4,896 53.0% 380 9,232 R+10.2
Schoharie 5,262 58.7% 3,646 40.7% 59 8,967 D+18.0
Tioga 3,627 42.1% 4,750 55.1% 237 8,614 R+13.0
Greene 4,405 51.9% 3,879 45.7% 209 8,493 D+6.2
Genesee 3,481 41.6% 4,815 57.5% 77 8,373 R+15.9
Richmond 4,815 59.3% 3,291 40.5% 10 8,116 D+18.8
Wyoming 3,309 41.0% 4,695 58.2% 67 8,071 R+17.2
Fulton 3,327 42.1% 4,579 57.9% 7,906 R+15.8
Orleans 3,104 39.9% 4,581 58.9% 93 7,778 R+19.0
Lewis 3,674 47.6% 4,036 52.3% 13 7,723 R+4.7
Essex 2,775 35.9% 4,776 61.9% 170 7,721 R+25.9
Sullivan 3,718 49.6% 3,339 44.6% 434 7,491 D+5.1
Seneca 3,802 52.5% 3,394 46.9% 47 7,243 D+5.6
Franklin 2,799 39.5% 4,185 59.1% 99 7,083 R+19.6
Cortland 2,749 39.5% 4,124 59.2% 91 6,964 R+19.7
Warren 2,618 41.3% 3,330 52.6% 386 6,334 R+11.2
Rockland 3,415 55.9% 2,688 44.0% 11 6,114 D+11.9
Schenectady 2,628 44.1% 3,250 54.6% 78 5,956 R+10.4
Yates 2,197 38.3% 3,432 59.8% 111 5,740 R+21.5
Schuyler 2,293 43.8% 2,790 53.3% 147 5,230 R+9.5
Putnam 1,708 44.7% 2,114 55.3% 2 3,824 R+10.6
Hamilton 552 54.2% 406 39.8% 61 1,019 D+14.3

Counties as they stood in 1880; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

New York in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+12.6
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+23.1
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+22.5
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+28.2
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+26.9
2004 John Kerry (D) D+18.3
2000 Al Gore (D) D+25.0
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+28.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+15.8
1988 Michael Dukakis (D) D+4.1
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+8.0
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+2.7
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+4.4
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+17.3
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+5.5
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+37.3
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+5.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+22.5
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+1.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+5.0
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+3.6
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+19.9
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+12.7
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+2.3
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+26.6
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+37.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+7.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+12.6
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+12.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+10.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+9.3
1896 William McKinley (R) R+18.9
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+3.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+1.1
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.1
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+1.9
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+3.2
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+6.5
1868 Horatio Seymour (D) D+1.2