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Election 1996 Results

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1996 presidential election in New York

Bill Clinton (Democrat) beat Bob Dole (Republican) in New York in 1996, 59.5% to 30.6%, a margin of 28.9 points and 1,822,685 votes.

New York voted 20.3 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+8.5.

The Democratic hold continued from 1992, when Bill Clinton also won.

Democrats led in 51 of the 62 counties and Republicans in 11. The largest, Nassau, cast 544,664 votes and went to the Democrat by 19.6 points. The closest was Cattaraugus, where 58 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
Bill Clinton won Democratic 3,756,177 59.5%
Bob Dole Republican 1,933,492 30.6%
Ross Perot Reform 503,458 8.0%
All other candidates 123,002 1.9%
Total6,316,129

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Nassau 303,587 55.7% 196,820 36.1% 44,257 544,664 D+19.6
Kings 432,232 80.1% 81,406 15.1% 26,195 539,833 D+65.0
Queens 372,925 72.9% 107,650 21.1% 30,721 511,296 D+51.9
Suffolk 261,828 51.8% 182,510 36.1% 60,875 505,213 D+15.7
New York 394,131 80.0% 67,839 13.8% 30,929 492,899 D+66.2
Erie 224,554 54.7% 132,343 32.3% 53,337 410,234 D+22.5
Westchester 196,310 56.9% 123,719 35.9% 24,834 344,863 D+21.0
Monroe 164,858 53.2% 115,694 37.3% 29,442 309,994 D+15.9
Bronx 248,276 85.8% 30,435 10.5% 10,639 289,350 D+75.3
Onondaga 100,190 51.4% 73,771 37.8% 20,978 194,939 D+13.6
Albany 85,993 61.0% 39,785 28.2% 15,213 140,991 D+32.8
Richmond 64,684 50.5% 52,207 40.8% 11,116 128,007 D+9.7
Orange 54,995 48.0% 45,956 40.1% 13,587 114,538 D+7.9
Rockland 63,127 56.2% 40,395 36.0% 8,719 112,241 D+20.3
Dutchess 47,339 45.6% 41,929 40.4% 14,553 103,821 D+5.2
Oneida 44,399 46.8% 37,996 40.0% 12,534 94,929 D+6.7
Niagara 44,203 49.4% 31,438 35.1% 13,803 89,444 D+14.3
Broome 44,407 51.2% 31,327 36.1% 11,080 86,814 D+15.1
Saratoga 39,832 46.5% 34,337 40.1% 11,496 85,665 D+6.4
Ulster 35,852 48.5% 26,212 35.5% 11,787 73,851 D+13.1
Rensselaer 34,273 50.7% 23,482 34.7% 9,870 67,625 D+16.0
Schenectady 35,404 53.1% 22,106 33.1% 9,199 66,709 D+19.9
Chautauqua 26,831 47.7% 21,261 37.8% 8,198 56,290 D+9.9
Oswego 20,440 44.8% 17,159 37.6% 8,074 45,673 D+7.2
Ontario 19,156 46.2% 17,237 41.6% 5,046 41,439 D+4.6
St. Lawrence 21,798 56.7% 10,827 28.1% 5,852 38,477 D+28.5
Putnam 16,173 42.1% 17,452 45.4% 4,807 38,432 R+3.3
Steuben 14,481 37.9% 17,710 46.4% 5,980 38,171 R+8.5
Tompkins 20,772 56.0% 11,532 31.1% 4,820 37,124 D+24.9
Wayne 15,145 42.1% 15,837 44.0% 5,015 35,997 R+1.9
Chemung 16,977 47.4% 14,287 39.9% 4,549 35,813 D+7.5
Jefferson 16,783 49.2% 12,362 36.2% 4,982 34,127 D+13.0
Cayuga 15,879 49.8% 11,093 34.8% 4,922 31,894 D+15.0
Cattaraugus 13,029 41.2% 12,971 41.0% 5,643 31,643 D+0.2
Clinton 15,386 52.9% 9,759 33.6% 3,915 29,060 D+19.4
Sullivan 15,052 53.3% 9,321 33.0% 3,871 28,244 D+20.3
Columbia 12,910 47.1% 10,324 37.7% 4,169 27,403 D+9.4
Madison 11,832 43.8% 11,324 42.0% 3,832 26,988 D+1.9
Warren 11,603 43.3% 11,152 41.6% 4,036 26,791 D+1.7
Herkimer 11,910 44.7% 10,085 37.9% 4,631 26,626 D+6.9
Livingston 10,868 43.2% 10,981 43.7% 3,289 25,138 R+0.4
Genesee 10,074 41.6% 10,821 44.6% 3,343 24,238 R+3.1
Otsego 11,470 47.5% 8,774 36.4% 3,882 24,126 D+11.2
Washington 9,572 42.5% 8,954 39.7% 4,018 22,544 D+2.7
Tioga 8,769 41.2% 9,416 44.2% 3,097 21,282 R+3.0
Montgomery 10,485 49.5% 7,172 33.9% 3,509 21,166 D+15.7
Fulton 9,779 46.3% 7,881 37.3% 3,470 21,130 D+9.0
Greene 8,251 41.0% 8,712 43.3% 3,161 20,124 R+2.3
Cortland 9,130 46.9% 7,606 39.1% 2,713 19,449 D+7.8
Delaware 8,724 45.0% 7,684 39.6% 2,986 19,394 D+5.4
Chenango 8,797 45.6% 7,319 38.0% 3,163 19,279 D+7.7
Allegany 6,621 37.4% 8,107 45.8% 2,975 17,703 R+8.4
Essex 7,893 46.5% 6,379 37.6% 2,714 16,986 D+8.9
Franklin 8,494 51.8% 5,072 30.9% 2,828 16,394 D+20.9
Wyoming 5,735 36.2% 7,477 47.3% 2,609 15,821 R+11.0
Orleans 6,233 40.8% 6,865 45.0% 2,170 15,268 R+4.1
Seneca 6,825 48.9% 5,004 35.9% 2,126 13,955 D+13.0
Schoharie 5,902 44.5% 5,353 40.4% 2,006 13,261 D+4.1
Lewis 4,402 43.2% 3,965 38.9% 1,818 10,185 D+4.3
Yates 4,066 43.6% 3,925 42.1% 1,336 9,327 D+1.5
Schuyler 3,303 43.3% 3,134 41.0% 1,198 7,635 D+2.2
Hamilton 1,228 34.0% 1,841 51.0% 543 3,612 R+17.0

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