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Election 1988 Results

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1988 presidential election in New York

Michael Dukakis (Democrat) beat George H. W. Bush (Republican) in New York in 1988, 51.6% to 47.5%, a margin of 4.1 points and 266,011 votes.

New York voted 11.8 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+7.7.

New York changed party: in 1984 it went Republican, for Ronald Reagan.

Republicans led in 51 of the 62 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 11. The largest, Nassau, cast 592,418 votes and went to the Republican by 14.7 points. The closest was Montgomery, where 243 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
Michael Dukakis won Democratic 3,347,882 51.6%
George H. W. Bush Republican 3,081,871 47.5%
All other candidates 55,930 0.9%
Total6,485,683

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Nassau 250,130 42.2% 337,430 57.0% 4,858 592,418 R+14.7
Kings 363,916 66.3% 178,961 32.6% 6,142 549,019 D+33.7
Queens 325,147 59.5% 217,049 39.7% 4,533 546,729 D+19.8
Suffolk 199,215 38.7% 311,242 60.5% 3,893 514,350 R+21.8
New York 385,675 76.1% 115,927 22.9% 4,949 506,551 D+53.3
Erie 238,779 55.4% 188,796 43.8% 3,217 430,792 D+11.6
Westchester 169,860 45.8% 197,956 53.4% 3,192 371,008 R+7.6
Monroe 153,650 49.3% 155,271 49.9% 2,545 311,466 R+0.5
Bronx 218,245 73.2% 76,043 25.5% 3,793 298,081 D+47.7
Onondaga 94,751 47.3% 104,080 51.9% 1,654 200,485 R+4.7
Albany 86,564 58.7% 59,534 40.4% 1,363 147,461 D+18.3
Richmond 47,812 38.0% 77,427 61.5% 736 125,975 R+23.5
Rockland 47,634 42.4% 63,825 56.8% 842 112,301 R+14.4
Orange 38,465 36.7% 65,446 62.4% 899 104,810 R+25.7
Oneida 47,665 46.1% 55,039 53.2% 757 103,461 R+7.1
Dutchess 38,968 38.2% 62,165 61.0% 826 101,959 R+22.8
Broome 48,130 49.9% 47,610 49.4% 625 96,365 D+0.5
Niagara 43,801 50.4% 42,537 49.0% 530 86,868 D+1.5
Saratoga 31,684 41.8% 43,498 57.4% 606 75,788 R+15.6
Ulster 30,744 42.4% 41,173 56.7% 640 72,557 R+14.4
Schenectady 36,483 51.8% 33,364 47.4% 539 70,386 D+4.4
Rensselaer 33,066 47.8% 35,412 51.2% 719 69,197 R+3.4
Chautauqua 25,814 44.6% 31,642 54.7% 411 57,867 R+10.1
Oswego 18,430 41.7% 25,362 57.4% 419 44,211 R+15.7
St. Lawrence 18,921 47.9% 20,290 51.4% 270 39,481 R+3.5
Ontario 17,341 44.0% 21,780 55.2% 314 39,435 R+11.3
Steuben 12,824 33.3% 25,359 65.9% 283 38,466 R+32.6
Chemung 15,966 43.0% 20,951 56.4% 222 37,139 R+13.4
Tompkins 21,455 58.5% 14,932 40.7% 312 36,699 D+17.8
Putnam 12,158 33.3% 24,086 66.0% 256 36,500 R+32.7
Wayne 12,959 38.2% 20,613 60.8% 330 33,902 R+22.6
Jefferson 14,137 42.0% 19,304 57.4% 181 33,622 R+15.4
Cattaraugus 12,447 38.4% 19,691 60.7% 290 32,428 R+22.3
Cayuga 15,044 46.6% 16,934 52.5% 307 32,285 R+5.9
Clinton 12,670 44.4% 15,702 55.0% 191 28,563 R+10.6
Herkimer 12,694 45.3% 15,104 53.9% 224 28,022 R+8.6
Sullivan 11,635 42.2% 15,713 57.0% 220 27,568 R+14.8
Columbia 11,585 43.0% 15,111 56.1% 228 26,924 R+13.1
Madison 10,665 41.4% 14,902 57.9% 187 25,754 R+16.5
Warren 8,580 34.8% 15,860 64.4% 182 24,622 R+29.6
Otsego 11,069 45.5% 13,021 53.5% 245 24,335 R+8.0
Genesee 9,945 40.9% 14,182 58.3% 205 24,332 R+17.4
Livingston 9,506 40.1% 14,004 59.1% 187 23,697 R+19.0
Montgomery 11,371 50.1% 11,128 49.1% 186 22,685 D+1.1
Washington 8,201 36.4% 14,103 62.6% 211 22,515 R+26.2
Tioga 8,102 38.7% 12,670 60.5% 174 20,946 R+21.8
Fulton 9,012 43.1% 11,757 56.2% 162 20,931 R+13.1
Chenango 8,021 40.3% 11,727 58.9% 154 19,902 R+18.6
Greene 7,265 37.6% 11,874 61.5% 180 19,319 R+23.9
Delaware 7,463 39.3% 11,391 59.9% 156 19,010 R+20.7
Cortland 7,673 40.9% 10,934 58.3% 162 18,769 R+17.4
Allegany 5,614 31.9% 11,880 67.4% 132 17,626 R+35.5
Franklin 7,928 46.1% 9,135 53.1% 129 17,192 R+7.0
Essex 6,623 38.7% 10,350 60.5% 140 17,113 R+21.8
Orleans 5,913 39.3% 9,028 60.0% 114 15,055 R+20.7
Wyoming 5,228 35.2% 9,451 63.6% 184 14,863 R+28.4
Seneca 6,215 45.8% 7,221 53.2% 135 13,571 R+7.4
Schoharie 5,389 43.0% 7,008 55.9% 139 12,536 R+12.9
Lewis 4,252 41.9% 5,787 57.1% 99 10,138 R+15.1
Yates 3,507 38.6% 5,488 60.5% 79 9,074 R+21.8
Schuyler 2,900 40.0% 4,291 59.3% 51 7,242 R+19.2
Hamilton 976 29.4% 2,320 69.9% 21 3,317 R+40.5

Counties as they stood in 1988; 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