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Election 1972 Results

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1972 presidential election in New York

Richard Nixon (Republican) beat George McGovern (Democrat) in New York in 1972, 58.5% to 41.2%, a margin of 17.3 points and 1,241,694 votes.

New York voted 5.8 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+23.1.

New York changed party: in 1968 it went Democratic, for Hubert Humphrey.

Republicans led in 59 of the 62 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 3. The largest, Kings, cast 763,620 votes and went to the Democrat by 1.8 points. The closest was Hamilton, where 1,866 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
Richard Nixon won Republican 4,192,778 58.5%
George McGovern Democratic 2,951,084 41.2%
All other candidates 17,968 0.3%
Total7,161,830

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Kings 387,768 50.8% 373,903 49.0% 1,949 763,620 D+1.8
Queens 328,316 43.4% 426,015 56.3% 1,756 756,087 R+12.9
Nassau 252,831 36.5% 438,723 63.3% 1,473 693,027 R+26.8
New York 354,326 66.2% 178,515 33.4% 2,022 534,863 D+32.9
Erie 218,105 45.8% 256,462 53.9% 1,456 476,023 R+8.1
Suffolk 132,441 29.4% 316,452 70.3% 1,005 449,898 R+40.9
Bronx 243,345 55.2% 196,754 44.6% 1,075 441,174 D+10.6
Westchester 154,412 36.9% 262,901 62.8% 1,122 418,435 R+25.9
Monroe 120,031 37.8% 196,579 62.0% 695 317,305 R+24.1
Onondaga 61,895 30.6% 140,039 69.2% 482 202,416 R+38.6
Albany 67,297 45.0% 81,848 54.8% 330 149,475 R+9.7
Richmond 29,241 25.6% 84,686 74.2% 196 114,123 R+48.6
Oneida 33,642 29.9% 78,549 69.9% 253 112,444 R+39.9
Rockland 35,771 35.5% 64,753 64.3% 196 100,720 R+28.8
Niagara 38,991 41.4% 54,777 58.2% 323 94,091 R+16.8
Broome 37,154 39.9% 55,736 59.8% 245 93,135 R+20.0
Dutchess 27,872 30.0% 64,864 69.8% 167 92,903 R+39.8
Orange 25,778 28.8% 63,556 71.0% 181 89,515 R+42.2
Schenectady 29,619 38.3% 47,529 61.5% 191 77,339 R+23.2
Rensselaer 24,019 32.9% 48,864 66.9% 188 73,071 R+34.0
Ulster 21,371 31.2% 46,883 68.5% 179 68,433 R+37.3
Chautauqua 26,253 41.3% 37,158 58.4% 172 63,583 R+17.2
Saratoga 17,899 30.5% 40,582 69.2% 150 58,631 R+38.7
St. Lawrence 15,286 36.8% 26,145 63.0% 72 41,503 R+26.2
Oswego 11,317 27.9% 29,109 71.8% 92 40,518 R+43.9
Chemung 12,650 32.5% 26,200 67.3% 94 38,944 R+34.8
Steuben 9,462 24.7% 28,708 75.0% 83 38,253 R+50.3
Ontario 11,012 31.5% 23,828 68.2% 81 34,921 R+36.7
Jefferson 11,629 33.4% 23,123 66.4% 65 34,817 R+33.0
Cayuga 11,097 32.7% 22,774 67.1% 81 33,952 R+34.4
Cattaraugus 10,909 33.1% 21,906 66.5% 112 32,927 R+33.4
Wayne 8,203 25.9% 23,379 73.9% 60 31,642 R+48.0
Tompkins 12,344 41.1% 17,605 58.7% 62 30,011 R+17.5
Herkimer 9,487 31.9% 20,194 67.8% 86 29,767 R+36.0
Putnam 7,747 26.3% 21,673 73.5% 77 29,497 R+47.2
Sullivan 9,847 36.6% 17,035 63.2% 56 26,938 R+26.7
Clinton 9,703 36.2% 17,048 63.6% 53 26,804 R+27.4
Montgomery 9,460 36.1% 16,640 63.6% 71 26,171 R+27.4
Genesee 8,631 33.4% 17,107 66.3% 73 25,811 R+32.8
Columbia 7,558 29.5% 17,995 70.3% 57 25,610 R+40.8
Otsego 7,898 31.2% 17,364 68.6% 59 25,321 R+37.4
Madison 6,241 25.3% 18,392 74.5% 64 24,697 R+49.2
Livingston 7,031 30.6% 15,886 69.1% 63 22,980 R+38.5
Fulton 7,303 32.3% 15,200 67.3% 72 22,575 R+35.0
Warren 5,760 25.6% 16,649 74.1% 56 22,465 R+48.5
Washington 5,677 26.0% 16,136 73.8% 51 21,864 R+47.8
Delaware 5,243 25.7% 15,136 74.1% 47 20,426 R+48.4
Greene 5,260 26.8% 14,313 73.0% 45 19,618 R+46.1
Chenango 5,695 29.2% 13,770 70.6% 44 19,509 R+41.4
Tioga 5,470 28.9% 13,396 70.8% 44 18,910 R+41.9
Allegany 4,812 26.3% 13,426 73.4% 46 18,284 R+47.1
Cortland 5,234 28.8% 12,885 71.0% 37 18,156 R+42.1
Essex 4,955 29.6% 11,763 70.2% 34 16,752 R+40.6
Franklin 5,266 32.4% 10,959 67.4% 35 16,260 R+35.0
Wyoming 4,365 28.0% 11,184 71.7% 39 15,588 R+43.7
Orleans 4,371 28.5% 10,938 71.4% 20 15,329 R+42.8
Seneca 4,441 32.1% 9,368 67.7% 33 13,842 R+35.6
Schoharie 3,730 30.1% 8,644 69.7% 32 12,406 R+39.6
Lewis 2,987 31.1% 6,591 68.6% 30 9,608 R+37.5
Yates 1,958 22.7% 6,639 77.0% 21 8,618 R+54.3
Schuyler 1,937 28.1% 4,945 71.8% 9 6,891 R+43.7
Hamilton 731 21.9% 2,597 77.9% 6 3,334 R+56.0

Counties as they stood in 1972; 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