United States presidential elections in New York
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New York state is one of the initial 13 states of America, but due to a deadlock in the state legislature, it did not join the first presidential election in 1788–89.[1][2] However, apart from this election, New York State has participated in all 58 other elections in U.S. history.
Number of elections59
Voted Democratic26
Voted Republican21
Voted Whig2
| |
| Number of elections | 59 |
|---|---|
| Voted Democratic | 26 |
| Voted Republican | 21 |
| Voted Whig | 2 |
| Voted Democratic-Republican | 7 |
| Voted Federalist | 1 |
| Voted other | 1[a] |
| Voted for winning candidate | 47 |
| Voted for losing candidate | 12 |
The political landscape of New York has undergone significant changes over the years. The Democratic Party has emerged as the dominant force in the state's politics, with a substantial majority of registered voters affiliating with the party.[3] New York is recognized as one of the key Democratic strongholds, alongside California and Illinois. In the past, New York was considered a swing state, consistently backing the winning candidate in elections from 1792 to 1984, with only a few exceptions. However, since 1988, the state has consistently leaned towards the Democratic Party, often delivering them a significant majority of votes exceeding 60%.[4]
New York is a signatory of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an interstate compact in which signatories award all of their electoral votes to the winner of the national-level popular vote in a presidential election, even if another candidate won an individual signatory's popular vote. As of 2023,[update] it has not yet gone into force.[5]
Presidential elections
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1788–89 to 1820
In elections before 1828, New York did not conduct a popular vote. The state legislature appointed each Elector.[6] In the 1788-89 election, New York's state legislature failed to appoint presidential electors on time.
| Year | Winner | Runner-up | EV | Ref. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| 1788–89 |
George Washington (I)‡ | – |
– |
– |
– |
– |
N/A | [b] | ||
| George Washington (I)‡ | – |
– |
– |
– |
– |
12 | ||||
| John Adams (F)‡ | – |
– |
Thomas Jefferson (DR) | – |
– |
12 | ||||
| Thomas Jefferson (DR)‡ | – |
– |
John Adams (F) | – |
– |
12 | ||||
| Thomas Jefferson (DR)‡ | – |
– |
Charles C. Pinckney (F) | – |
– |
19 | ||||
| James Madison (DR)‡ | – |
– |
Charles C. Pinckney (F) | – |
– |
19 | ||||
| James Madison (DR)‡ | – |
– |
DeWitt Clinton (F) | – |
– |
29 | ||||
| James Monroe (DR)‡ | – |
– |
Rufus King (F) | – |
– |
29 | ||||
| James Monroe (DR)‡ | – |
– |
– |
– |
– |
29 | ||||
1824
The election of 1824 was a complex realigning election following the collapse of the prevailing Democratic-Republican Party, resulting in four different candidates each claiming to carry the banner of the party, and competing for influence in different parts of the country. The election was the only one in history to be decided by the House of Representatives under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution after no candidate secured a majority of the electoral vote.[23] It was also the only presidential election in which the candidate who received a plurality of electoral votes (Andrew Jackson) did not become president, a source of great bitterness for Jackson and his supporters, who proclaimed the election of Adams a corrupt bargain.[24] This election marks the last time the New York State Legislature chose the state's electors as opposed to using some form of popular vote method.[6]
| Year | Winner | Runner-up | Runner-up | Runner-up | Total EV |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | EV | Candidate | EV | Candidate | EV | Candidate | EV | |||||||
| 1824 | John Quincy Adams (DR)‡ | 26 | William H. Crawford (DR) | 5 | Andrew Jackson (DR) | 1 | Henry Clay (DR) | 4 | 36 | |||||
1828
In this election, each district's election result decided the electoral college.[27]
| Year | Winner | Runner-up | Total EV |
Ref. | ||||||||
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| Candidate | Votes | % | EV | Candidate | Votes | % | EV | |||||
| 1828 | Andrew Jackson (D)‡ | 139,412 | 51.45% | 20 | John Quincy Adams (NR) | 131,563 | 48.55% | 16 | 36 | |||
1832 to 1856
| Year | Winner | Runner-up | Other candidate[e] | EV | Ref. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||
| 1832 | Andrew Jackson (D)‡ | 168,497 | 52.1% | Henry Clay (NR) | 154,896 | 47.9% | – |
– |
– |
42 | ||||
| 1836 | Martin Van Buren (D)‡ | 166,795 | 54.63% | William Henry Harrison (W) | 138,548 | 45.37% | – |
– |
– |
42 | ||||
| 1840 | William Henry Harrison (W)‡ | 226,001 | 51.18% | Martin Van Buren (D) | 212,733 | 48.18% | James G. Birney (LI-1840) | 2,809 | 0.64% | 42 | ||||
| 1844 | James K. Polk (D)‡ | 237,588 | 48.9% | Henry Clay (W) | 232,482 | 47.85% | James G. Birney (LI-1840) | 15,812 | 3.25% | 36 | ||||
| 1848 | Zachary Taylor (W)‡ | 218,583 | 47.94% | Martin Van Buren (FS) | 120,497 | 26.43% | Lewis Cass (D) | 114,319 | 25.07% | 36 | ||||
| 1852 | Franklin Pierce (D)‡ | 262,083 | 50.18% | Winfield Scott (W) | 234,882 | 44.97% | John P. Hale (FS) | 25,329 | 4.85% | 35 | ||||
| 1856 | John C. Frémont (R) | 276,004 | 46.27% | James Buchanan (D)‡ | 195,878 | 32.84% | Millard Fillmore (KN) | 124,604 | 20.89% | 35 | ||||
1860
The election of 1860 was a complex realigning election in which the breakdown of the previous two-party alignment culminated in four parties each competing for influence in different parts of the country.[50] The result of the election, with the victory of an ardent opponent of slavery, spurred the secession of eleven states and brought about the American Civil War.[51]
| Year | Winner | Runner-up | EV | Ref. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes (%) |
Candidate | Votes (%) | |||||
| 1860 | Abraham Lincoln (R)‡ | 362,646 (53.71%) |
Stephen A. Douglas (D), John C. Breckinridge (SD) and John Bell (CU) | 312,510 (46.29%) |
35 | |||
1864 to present
| Year | Winner | Runner-up | Other candidate[f] | EV | Ref. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||
| Abraham Lincoln (NU)‡ | 368,735 | 50.46% | George B. McClellan (D) | 361,986 | 49.54% | – |
– |
– |
33 | |||||
| Horatio Seymour (D) | 429,883 | 50.59% | Ulysses S. Grant (R)‡ | 419,888 | 49.41% | – |
– |
– |
33 | |||||
| Ulysses S. Grant (R)‡ | 440,738 | 53.23% | Horace Greeley (LR) | 387,282 | 46.77% | – |
– |
– |
35 | |||||
| Samuel J. Tilden (D) | 521,949 | 51.4% | Rutherford B. Hayes (R)‡ | 489,207 | 48.17% | Green Smith (PRO) | 2,369 | 0.23% | 35 | |||||
| James A. Garfield (R)‡ | 555,544 | 50.32% | Winfield S. Hancock (D) | 534,511 | 48.42% | James B. Weaver (GB) | 12,373 | 1.12% | 35 | |||||
| Grover Cleveland (D)‡ | 563,154 | 48.25% | James G. Blaine (R) | 562,005 | 48.15% | John St. John (PRO) | 25,006 | 2.14% | 36 | |||||
| Benjamin Harrison (R)‡ | 650,338 | 49.28% | Grover Cleveland (D) | 635,965 | 48.19% | Clinton Fisk (PRO) | 30,231 | 2.29% | 36 | |||||
| Grover Cleveland (D)‡ | 654,868 | 48.99% | Benjamin Harrison (R) | 609,350 | 45.58% | John Bidwell (PRO) | 38,190 | 2.86% | 36 | |||||
| William McKinley (R)‡ | 819,838 | 57.58% | William Jennings Bryan (D) | 551,369 | 38.72% | John McAuley Palmer (ND) | 18,950 | 1.33% | 36 | |||||
| William McKinley (R)‡ | 822,013 | 53.1% | William Jennings Bryan (D) | 678,462 | 43.83% | John G. Woolley (PRO) | 22,077 | 1.43% | 36 | |||||
| Theodore Roosevelt (R)‡ | 859,533 | 53.13% | Alton B. Parker (D) | 683,981 | 42.28% | Eugene V. Debs (S) | 36,883 | 2.28% | 39 | |||||
| William Howard Taft (R)‡ | 870,070 | 53.11% | William Jennings Bryan (D) | 667,468 | 40.74% | Eugene V. Debs (S) | 38,451 | 2.35% | 39 | |||||
| Woodrow Wilson (D)‡ | 655,573 | 41.27% | William Howard Taft (R) | 455,487 | 28.68% | Theodore Roosevelt (PR-1912) | 390,093 | 24.56% | 45 | |||||
| Charles Evans Hughes (R) | 879,238 | 51.53% | Woodrow Wilson (D)‡ | 759,426 | 44.51% | Allan L. Benson (S) | 45,944 | 2.69% | 45 | |||||
| Warren G. Harding (R)‡ | 1,871,167 | 64.56% | James M. Cox (D) | 781,238 | 26.95% | Eugene V. Debs (S) | 203,201 | 7.01% | 45 | |||||
| Calvin Coolidge (R)‡ | 1,820,058 | 55.76% | John W. Davis (D) | 950,796 | 29.13% | Robert M. La Follette (PR-1924) | 474,913 | 14.55% | 45 | |||||
| Herbert Hoover (R)‡ | 2,193,344 | 49.79% | Al Smith (D) | 2,089,863 | 47.44% | Norman Thomas (S) | 107,332 | 2.44% | 45 | |||||
| Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)‡ | 2,534,959 | 54.07% | Herbert Hoover (R) | 1,937,963 | 41.33% | Norman Thomas (S) | 177,397 | 3.78% | 47 | |||||
| Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)‡ | 3,293,222 | 58.85% | Alf Landon (R) | 2,180,670 | 38.97% | Norman Thomas (S) | 86,897 | 1.55% | 47 | |||||
| Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)‡ | 3,251,918 | 51.5% | Wendell Willkie (R) | 3,027,478 | 47.95% | Norman Thomas (S) | 18,950 | 0.3% | 47 | |||||
| Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)‡ | 3,304,238 | 52.31% | Thomas E. Dewey (R) | 2,987,647 | 47.3% | Edward A. Teichert (SLP) | 14,352 | 0.23% | 47 | |||||
| Thomas E. Dewey (R) | 2,841,163 | 45.99% | Harry S. Truman (D)‡ | 2,780,204 | 45.01% | Henry A. Wallace (PR-1948) | 509,559 | 8.25% | 47 | |||||
| Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)‡ | 3,952,815 | 55.45% | Adlai Stevenson II (D) | 3,104,601 | 43.55% | Vincent Hallinan (ALP) | 64,211 | 0.9% | 45 | |||||
| Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)‡ | 4,345,506 | 61.24% | Adlai Stevenson II (D) | 2,458,282 | 34.64% | Write-ins | 2,521 | 0.04% | 45 | |||||
| John F. Kennedy (D)‡ | 3,830,085 | 52.53% | Richard Nixon (R) | 3,446,419 | 47.27% | Farrell Dobbs (SWP) | 14,319 | 0.2% | 45 | |||||
| Lyndon B. Johnson (D)‡ | 4,913,156 | 68.56% | Barry Goldwater (R) | 2,243,559 | 31.31% | Eric Hass (SLP) | 6,085 | 0.5% | 43 | |||||
| Hubert Humphrey (D) | 3,378,470 | 49.76% | Richard Nixon (R)‡ | 3,007,932 | 44.3% | George Wallace (AI) | 358,864 | 5.29% | 43 | |||||
| Richard Nixon (R)‡ | 4,192,778 | 58.54% | George McGovern (D) | 2,951,084 | 41.21% | Evelyn Reed (SWP) | 7,797 | 0.11% | 41 | |||||
| Jimmy Carter (D)‡ | 3,389,558 | 51.87% | Gerald Ford (R) | 3,100,791 | 47.46% | Roger MacBride (LI) | 12,197 | 0.19% | 41 | |||||
| Ronald Reagan (R)‡ | 2,893,831 | 46.66% | Jimmy Carter (D) | 2,728,372 | 43.99% | John B. Anderson (I) | 467,801 | 7.54% | 41 | |||||
| Ronald Reagan (R)‡ | 3,664,763 | 53.84% | Walter Mondale (D) | 3,119,609 | 45.83% | David Bergland (LI) | 11,949 | 0.18% | 36 | |||||
| Michael Dukakis (D) | 3,347,882 | 51.62% | George H. W. Bush (R)‡ | 3,081,871 | 47.52% | Ron Paul (LI) | 20,497 | 0.32% | 36 | |||||
| Bill Clinton (D)‡ | 3,444,450 | 49.73% | George H. W. Bush (R) | 2,346,649 | 33.88% | Ross Perot (I) | 1,090,721 | 15.75% | 33 | |||||
| Bill Clinton (D)‡ | 3,756,177 | 59.47% | Bob Dole (R) | 1,933,492 | 30.61% | Ross Perot (RE) | 503,458 | 7.97% | 33 | |||||
| Al Gore (D) | 4,113,791 | 60.22% | George W. Bush (R)‡ | 2,405,676 | 35.22% | Ralph Nader (G) | 244,398 | 3.58% | 33 | |||||
| John Kerry (D) | 4,314,280 | 58.37% | George W. Bush (R)‡ | 2,962,567 | 40.08% | Ralph Nader (I) | 99,873 | 1.35% | 31 | |||||
| Barack Obama (D)‡ | 4,804,945 | 62.88% | John McCain (R) | 2,752,771 | 36.03% | Ralph Nader (I) | 41,249 | 0.54% | 31 | |||||
| Barack Obama (D)‡ | 4,485,741 | 63.35% | Mitt Romney (R) | 2,490,431 | 35.17% | Gary Johnson (LI) | 47,256 | 0.07% | 29 | |||||
| Hillary Clinton (D) | 4,556,124 | 59.38% | Donald Trump (R)‡ | 2,819,534 | 36.75% | Gary Johnson (LI) | 176,598 | 2.3% | 29 | |||||
| Joe Biden (D)‡ | 5,244,886 | 60.87% | Donald Trump (R) | 3,251,997 | 37.74% | Jo Jorgensen (LI) | 60,383 | 0.7% | 29 | |||||
| Kamala Harris (D) | 4,619,195 | 55.12% | Donald Trump (R)‡ | 3,578,899 | 42.71% | Write-ins | 182,364 | 2.18% | 28 | |||||
See also
Notes
- George Washington, 1792.
- Electors were appointed by state legislature.
- Ran unopposed
- For purposes of these lists, other national candidates are defined as those who won at least one electoral vote, or won at least ten percent of the vote in multiple states.
- For purposes of these lists, other candidates are defined as those who were in third place in New York.