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Election 2016 Results

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2016 presidential election in New York

Hillary Clinton (Democrat) beat Donald Trump (Republican) in New York in 2016, 59.0% to 36.5%, a margin of 22.5 points and 1,736,590 votes.

New York voted 20.4 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+2.1.

The Democratic hold continued from 2012, when Barack Obama won.

Republicans led in 45 of the 62 counties and Democrats in 17. The largest, Kings, cast 805,605 votes and went to the Democrat by 62.0 points. The closest was Essex, where 196 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
Hillary Clinton won Democratic 4,556,124 59.0%
Donald Trump Republican 2,819,534 36.5%
All other candidates 345,795 4.5%
Total7,721,453

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Kings 640,553 79.5% 141,044 17.5% 24,008 805,605 D+62.0
Queens 517,220 75.4% 149,341 21.8% 19,832 686,393 D+53.6
Suffolk 303,951 44.6% 350,570 51.5% 26,733 681,254 R+6.8
New York 579,013 86.6% 64,929 9.7% 24,997 668,939 D+76.9
Nassau 326,088 51.2% 288,313 45.3% 22,566 636,967 D+5.9
Erie 215,456 50.9% 188,303 44.5% 19,866 423,625 D+6.4
Westchester 272,926 64.9% 131,238 31.2% 16,491 420,655 D+33.7
Bronx 353,646 88.5% 37,797 9.5% 8,079 399,522 D+79.1
Monroe 188,592 54.2% 136,582 39.3% 22,616 347,790 D+15.0
Onondaga 112,337 53.9% 83,649 40.1% 12,454 208,440 D+13.8
Richmond 74,143 41.0% 101,437 56.1% 5,380 180,960 R+15.1
Orange 68,278 44.9% 76,645 50.4% 7,098 152,021 R+5.5
Albany 83,077 59.4% 47,810 34.2% 8,943 139,830 D+25.2
Rockland 69,342 51.3% 60,911 45.1% 4,834 135,087 D+6.2
Dutchess 62,261 47.6% 61,797 47.2% 6,876 130,934 D+0.4
Saratoga 50,913 44.6% 54,575 47.8% 8,606 114,094 R+3.2
Niagara 35,559 38.5% 51,961 56.2% 4,882 92,402 R+17.8
Oneida 33,743 37.1% 51,437 56.5% 5,829 91,009 R+19.4
Broome 39,212 45.6% 40,943 47.6% 5,917 86,072 R+2.0
Ulster 42,101 51.7% 34,006 41.8% 5,248 81,355 D+10.0
Rensselaer 32,717 45.7% 33,726 47.1% 5,119 71,562 R+1.4
Schenectady 33,747 50.2% 28,953 43.0% 4,580 67,280 D+7.1
Chautauqua 19,091 35.2% 31,594 58.3% 3,549 54,234 R+23.1
Ontario 22,233 42.5% 26,029 49.8% 3,996 52,258 R+7.3
Putnam 19,366 39.9% 27,024 55.6% 2,173 48,563 R+15.8
Oswego 17,095 35.5% 27,688 57.5% 3,397 48,180 R+22.0
Tompkins 28,890 67.7% 10,371 24.3% 3,417 42,678 D+43.4
Steuben 12,526 29.8% 26,831 63.9% 2,645 42,002 R+34.1
Wayne 13,473 33.9% 23,380 58.9% 2,834 39,687 R+25.0
St. Lawrence 16,488 42.1% 19,942 50.9% 2,728 39,158 R+8.8
Jefferson 13,809 36.1% 21,763 56.9% 2,664 38,236 R+20.8
Chemung 13,757 38.1% 20,097 55.6% 2,265 36,119 R+17.6
Cayuga 13,522 40.8% 17,384 52.4% 2,266 33,172 R+11.6
Clinton 15,059 46.9% 14,449 45.0% 2,597 32,105 D+1.9
Warren 13,091 41.7% 15,751 50.1% 2,566 31,408 R+8.5
Cattaraugus 9,497 30.5% 19,692 63.2% 1,972 31,161 R+32.7
Columbia 15,284 49.5% 13,756 44.5% 1,862 30,902 D+4.9
Madison 11,667 38.8% 15,936 53.0% 2,461 30,064 R+14.2
Livingston 10,697 35.6% 17,290 57.6% 2,044 30,031 R+22.0
Sullivan 12,568 42.0% 15,931 53.2% 1,456 29,955 R+11.2
Genesee 7,650 28.9% 16,915 64.0% 1,867 26,432 R+35.1
Herkimer 8,083 30.8% 16,699 63.6% 1,473 26,255 R+32.8
Otsego 10,451 40.7% 13,308 51.8% 1,909 25,668 R+11.1
Washington 9,098 37.1% 13,610 55.5% 1,820 24,528 R+18.4
Tioga 7,526 33.8% 13,260 59.5% 1,513 22,299 R+25.7
Greene 7,405 33.6% 13,073 59.3% 1,572 22,050 R+25.7
Fulton 6,496 30.6% 13,462 63.5% 1,256 21,214 R+32.8
Cortland 8,771 43.3% 9,900 48.9% 1,573 20,244 R+5.6
Chenango 6,775 33.6% 11,921 59.1% 1,464 20,160 R+25.5
Delaware 6,627 33.5% 11,942 60.3% 1,223 19,792 R+26.9
Montgomery 6,595 34.6% 11,301 59.3% 1,158 19,054 R+24.7
Allegany 4,882 26.1% 12,525 67.0% 1,285 18,692 R+40.9
Wyoming 3,904 22.6% 12,442 71.9% 952 17,298 R+49.4
Essex 7,762 45.1% 7,958 46.2% 1,498 17,218 R+1.1
Franklin 7,297 43.0% 8,221 48.5% 1,434 16,952 R+5.5
Orleans 4,470 27.3% 10,936 66.8% 974 16,380 R+39.5
Schoharie 4,240 30.2% 8,831 62.9% 979 14,050 R+32.7
Seneca 5,697 40.8% 7,236 51.8% 1,047 13,980 R+11.0
Lewis 3,146 27.8% 7,400 65.3% 779 11,325 R+37.6
Yates 3,659 36.4% 5,660 56.2% 747 10,066 R+19.9
Schuyler 3,091 35.2% 5,050 57.6% 631 8,772 R+22.3
Hamilton 949 29.4% 2,064 64.0% 212 3,225 R+34.6

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