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Election 1980 Results

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1980 presidential election in New York

Ronald Reagan (Republican) beat Jimmy Carter (Democrat) in New York in 1980, 46.7% to 44.0%, a margin of 2.7 points and 165,459 votes.

New York voted 7.1 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+9.7.

New York changed party: in 1976 it went Democratic, for Jimmy Carter.

Republicans led in 54 of the 62 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 8. The largest, Nassau, cast 596,020 votes and went to the Republican by 21.1 points. The closest was Franklin, where 339 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
Ronald Reagan won Republican 2,893,831 46.7%
Jimmy Carter Democratic 2,728,372 44.0%
John B. Anderson Independent 467,801 7.5%
All other candidates 111,955 1.8%
Total6,201,959

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Nassau 207,602 34.8% 333,567 56.0% 54,851 596,020 R+21.1
Queens 269,147 48.0% 251,333 44.8% 40,443 560,923 D+3.2
Kings 288,893 55.4% 200,306 38.4% 31,893 521,092 D+17.0
Suffolk 149,945 33.3% 256,294 57.0% 43,416 449,655 R+23.7
New York 275,742 62.4% 115,911 26.2% 50,245 441,898 D+36.2
Erie 215,283 51.2% 169,209 40.2% 35,981 420,473 D+11.0
Westchester 130,136 35.6% 198,552 54.4% 36,461 365,149 R+18.7
Monroe 142,423 46.4% 128,615 41.9% 35,695 306,733 D+4.5
Bronx 181,090 64.0% 86,843 30.7% 14,914 282,847 D+33.3
Onondaga 73,453 38.0% 97,887 50.6% 21,940 193,280 R+12.6
Albany 74,429 51.6% 52,354 36.3% 17,581 144,364 D+15.3
Richmond 37,306 33.7% 64,885 58.6% 8,456 110,647 R+24.9
Rockland 35,277 33.6% 59,068 56.3% 10,648 104,993 R+22.7
Oneida 44,292 42.3% 51,968 49.6% 8,539 104,799 R+7.3
Dutchess 28,616 30.8% 53,616 57.6% 10,775 93,007 R+26.9
Orange 30,022 33.2% 51,268 56.7% 9,180 90,470 R+23.5
Broome 37,013 41.5% 39,275 44.0% 12,992 89,280 R+2.5
Niagara 40,405 46.8% 38,760 44.9% 7,229 86,394 D+1.9
Schenectady 29,932 42.4% 32,003 45.4% 8,599 70,534 R+2.9
Rensselaer 29,880 42.8% 32,005 45.9% 7,862 69,747 R+3.0
Ulster 22,179 33.2% 36,709 55.0% 7,838 66,726 R+21.8
Saratoga 23,641 36.2% 34,184 52.3% 7,537 65,362 R+16.1
Chautauqua 22,871 38.9% 30,081 51.2% 5,804 58,756 R+12.3
Oswego 15,343 36.1% 22,816 53.6% 4,382 42,541 R+17.6
St. Lawrence 17,006 42.9% 18,437 46.5% 4,181 39,624 R+3.6
Steuben 12,826 33.6% 22,418 58.7% 2,926 38,170 R+25.1
Chemung 14,565 39.1% 19,674 52.9% 2,970 37,209 R+13.7
Ontario 14,477 40.8% 17,036 48.0% 3,993 35,506 R+7.2
Jefferson 13,271 40.1% 16,455 49.7% 3,402 33,128 R+9.6
Cayuga 11,708 35.7% 17,945 54.8% 3,103 32,756 R+19.0
Cattaraugus 12,917 39.5% 17,222 52.7% 2,570 32,709 R+13.2
Wayne 12,590 38.7% 16,498 50.7% 3,424 32,512 R+12.0
Putnam 8,691 27.3% 20,193 63.5% 2,935 31,819 R+36.1
Tompkins 11,970 40.3% 12,448 42.0% 5,250 29,668 R+1.6
Herkimer 11,497 41.2% 14,105 50.6% 2,286 27,888 R+9.4
Sullivan 9,553 35.1% 15,089 55.4% 2,576 27,218 R+20.3
Clinton 11,498 42.8% 13,120 48.8% 2,272 26,890 R+6.0
Columbia 9,500 36.2% 13,946 53.1% 2,828 26,274 R+16.9
Genesee 10,677 43.6% 11,650 47.6% 2,162 24,489 R+4.0
Montgomery 9,645 40.0% 11,917 49.5% 2,524 24,086 R+9.4
Madison 7,843 32.8% 13,369 55.9% 2,725 23,937 R+23.1
Otsego 8,795 36.8% 11,814 49.4% 3,298 23,907 R+12.6
Livingston 9,030 40.2% 11,193 49.8% 2,231 22,454 R+9.6
Warren 6,971 31.2% 13,264 59.3% 2,142 22,377 R+28.1
Washington 7,144 32.6% 12,835 58.6% 1,927 21,906 R+26.0
Fulton 8,105 37.7% 11,448 53.2% 1,969 21,522 R+15.5
Chenango 6,917 35.3% 10,400 53.1% 2,275 19,592 R+17.8
Greene 6,488 33.3% 11,286 57.9% 1,724 19,498 R+24.6
Tioga 6,690 34.8% 10,291 53.6% 2,233 19,214 R+18.7
Delaware 6,333 33.0% 10,609 55.4% 2,222 19,164 R+22.3
Cortland 6,176 34.2% 9,885 54.8% 1,987 18,048 R+20.6
Allegany 5,879 33.3% 10,423 59.1% 1,338 17,640 R+25.8
Essex 6,443 37.9% 9,025 53.2% 1,510 16,978 R+15.2
Franklin 7,281 44.7% 7,620 46.8% 1,391 16,292 R+2.1
Orleans 5,767 39.5% 7,536 51.6% 1,308 14,611 R+12.1
Wyoming 5,234 36.0% 8,108 55.7% 1,210 14,552 R+19.7
Seneca 5,010 36.6% 7,174 52.4% 1,506 13,690 R+15.8
Schoharie 4,715 38.5% 6,382 52.0% 1,165 12,262 R+13.6
Lewis 3,973 40.5% 4,937 50.3% 912 9,822 R+9.8
Yates 2,828 33.7% 4,694 56.0% 862 8,384 R+22.3
Schuyler 2,514 36.1% 3,838 55.2% 605 6,957 R+19.0
Hamilton 925 28.6% 2,038 63.1% 267 3,230 R+34.5

Counties as they stood in 1980; 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