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Election 2004 Results

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2004 presidential election in New York

John Kerry (Democrat) beat George W. Bush (Republican) in New York in 2004, 58.4% to 40.1%, a margin of 18.3 points and 1,351,713 votes.

New York voted 20.8 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+2.5.

The Democratic hold continued from 2000, when Al Gore won.

Republicans led in 40 of the 62 counties and Democrats in 22. The largest, Kings, cast 688,623 votes and went to the Democrat by 48.1 points. The closest was Niagara, where 96 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

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
John Kerry won	Democratic	4,314,280	58.4%
George W. Bush	Republican	2,962,567	40.1%
All other candidates		114,189	1.5%
Total		7,391,036

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Total	Margin
Kings	509,948 74.1%	178,675 25.9%	688,623	D+48.1
New York	526,124 81.2%	121,728 18.8%	647,852	D+62.4
Suffolk	316,816 50.9%	306,106 49.1%	622,922	D+1.7
Nassau	327,416 54.1%	277,829 45.9%	605,245	D+8.2
Queens	436,106 72.1%	168,374 27.9%	604,480	D+44.3
Erie	248,246 56.8%	188,789 43.2%	437,035	D+13.6
Westchester	232,178 59.6%	157,600 40.4%	389,778	D+19.1
Bronx	285,783 82.4%	60,899 17.6%	346,682	D+64.9
Monroe	173,456 51.8%	161,398 48.2%	334,854	D+3.6
Onondaga	116,215 55.3%	94,103 44.7%	210,318	D+10.5
Richmond	68,371 44.1%	86,628 55.9%	154,999	R+11.8
Albany	88,966 61.3%	56,280 38.7%	145,246	D+22.5
Orange	63,611 45.4%	76,624 54.6%	140,235	R+9.3
Rockland	64,384 50.3%	63,528 49.7%	127,912	D+0.7
Dutchess	58,339 48.4%	62,151 51.6%	120,490	R+3.2
Saratoga	48,880 47.1%	54,914 52.9%	103,794	R+5.8
Niagara	47,102 50.1%	47,006 49.9%	94,108	D+0.1
Oneida	40,925 44.3%	51,412 55.7%	92,337	R+11.4
Broome	45,917 51.2%	43,737 48.8%	89,654	D+2.4
Ulster	46,984 54.7%	38,927 45.3%	85,911	D+9.4
Rensselaer	35,851 50.7%	34,858 49.3%	70,709	D+1.4
Schenectady	35,872 52.8%	32,029 47.2%	67,901	D+5.7
Chautauqua	27,211 46.0%	31,905 54.0%	59,116	R+7.9
Oswego	24,004 47.9%	26,159 52.1%	50,163	R+4.3
Ontario	21,158 43.6%	27,315 56.4%	48,473	R+12.7
Putnam	19,495 43.3%	25,536 56.7%	45,031	R+13.4
Tompkins	26,478 63.1%	15,451 36.9%	41,929	D+26.3
St. Lawrence	22,881 55.9%	18,071 44.1%	40,952	D+11.7
Steuben	14,540 35.8%	26,018 64.2%	40,558	R+28.3
Wayne	15,575 39.3%	24,093 60.7%	39,668	R+21.5
Chemung	17,170 45.3%	20,705 54.7%	37,875	R+9.3
Jefferson	16,864 44.9%	20,725 55.1%	37,589	R+10.3
Cayuga	17,453 49.7%	17,662 50.3%	35,115	R+0.6
Cattaraugus	13,505 40.9%	19,541 59.1%	33,046	R+18.3
Clinton	17,584 53.3%	15,408 46.7%	32,992	D+6.6
Columbia	15,725 51.8%	14,641 48.2%	30,366	D+3.6
Sullivan	14,908 49.4%	15,244 50.6%	30,152	R+1.1
Warren	13,471 44.8%	16,616 55.2%	30,087	R+10.5
Madison	13,069 44.6%	16,262 55.4%	29,331	R+10.9
Livingston	11,462 39.7%	17,387 60.3%	28,849	R+20.5
Herkimer	11,747 42.9%	15,621 57.1%	27,368	R+14.2
Genesee	10,288 38.8%	16,251 61.2%	26,539	R+22.5
Otsego	12,798 49.3%	13,150 50.7%	25,948	R+1.4
Washington	10,624 43.7%	13,665 56.3%	24,289	R+12.5
Tioga	9,716 42.1%	13,369 57.9%	23,085	R+15.8
Cortland	10,685 48.3%	11,449 51.7%	22,134	R+3.5
Greene	8,882 41.1%	12,727 58.9%	21,609	R+17.8
Fulton	9,204 42.9%	12,270 57.1%	21,474	R+14.3
Chenango	9,291 44.9%	11,386 55.1%	20,677	R+10.1
Montgomery	9,468 46.0%	11,116 54.0%	20,584	R+8.0
Delaware	8,694 42.5%	11,758 57.5%	20,452	R+15.0
Essex	8,745 47.2%	9,789 52.8%	18,534	R+5.6
Allegany	6,596 35.7%	11,884 64.3%	18,480	R+28.6
Franklin	9,583 53.5%	8,333 46.5%	17,916	D+7.0
Wyoming	6,082 34.9%	11,323 65.1%	17,405	R+30.1
Orleans	5,917 37.2%	10,003 62.8%	15,920	R+25.7
Seneca	6,987 47.0%	7,894 53.0%	14,881	R+6.1
Schoharie	5,629 40.1%	8,400 59.9%	14,029	R+19.8
Lewis	4,558 41.4%	6,441 58.6%	10,999	R+17.1
Yates	4,192 40.6%	6,136 59.4%	10,328	R+18.8
Schuyler	3,395 41.0%	4,891 59.0%	8,286	R+18.1
Hamilton	1,156 32.7%	2,374 67.3%	3,530	R+34.5

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

Year	Winner	Margin
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

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