How New York has voted since 1960
New York has 28 electoral votes in 2028, and at the current pace of population change it would lose two electoral votes after the 2030 census. Since 1960 it has voted Democratic 14 times and Republican 3 times. It has backed the national winner in 11 of 17 elections. Kamala Harris carried it in 2024 by 12.6 points, 14.1 points more Democratic than the nation. In 2024, 60.5% of its eligible voters cast a ballot, ranking 41st among the 50 states and DC (nationally, 64.3%). It has voted Democratic in every election since 1988. Its closest result was in 1980, when Ronald Reagan won it by 2.7 points.
- 1960Kennedy+5.3
- 1964Johnson+37.3
- 1968Humphrey+5.5
- 1972Nixon+17.3
- 1976Carter+4.4
- 1980Reagan+2.7
- 1984Reagan+8.0
- 1988Dukakis+4.1
- 1992Clinton+15.8
- 1996Clinton+28.9
- 2000Gore+25.0
- 2004Kerry+18.3
- 2008Obama+26.9
- 2012Obama+28.2
- 2016Clinton+22.6
- 2020Biden+23.1
- 2024Harris+12.6
Each box is one election: the winner in New York and the margin in points. Darker boxes were won by 10 points or more, lighter by under 5.
Election night
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Times from the 2024 general election; states rarely change them, and they will be confirmed for 2028.
2028 ratings
- Safe D Electoral Vote Map Sept. 28, 2026
In Congress
Senate
- Charles E. Schumer (D) since 1999
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D) since 2009
House: 19 Democrats, 7 Republicans
All 26 members
- 1 Nick LaLota (R)
- 2 Andrew R. Garbarino (R)
- 3 Thomas R. Suozzi (D)
- 4 Laura Gillen (D)
- 5 Gregory W. Meeks (D)
- 6 Grace Meng (D)
- 7 Nydia M. Velázquez (D)
- 8 Hakeem S. Jeffries (D)
- 9 Yvette D. Clarke (D)
- 10 Daniel S. Goldman (D)
- 11 Nicole Malliotakis (R)
- 12 Jerrold Nadler (D)
- 13 Adriano Espaillat (D)
- 14 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D)
- 15 Ritchie Torres (D)
- 16 George Latimer (D)
- 17 Michael Lawler (R)
- 18 Patrick Ryan (D)
- 19 Josh Riley (D)
- 20 Paul Tonko (D)
- 21 Elise M. Stefanik (R)
- 22 John W. Mannion (D)
- 23 Nicholas A. Langworthy (R)
- 24 Claudia Tenney (R)
- 25 Joseph D. Morelle (D)
- 26 Timothy M. Kennedy (D)
From Congress.gov, as of Oct. 19, 2026. Vacant seats are not listed.
Margin by election
New York margin National popular vote
By county
Donald Trump won 44 of New York's 62 counties in 2024; Kamala Harris won 18.
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Largest counties, 2024
| County | Votes | Margin | Shift from 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kings County | 847,934 | D+43.3 | →R 11.1 |
| Suffolk County | 762,849 | R+9.9 | →R 8.9 |
| Nassau County | 712,299 | R+4.2 | →R 13.6 |
| Queens County | 712,191 | D+24.2 | →R 20.6 |
| New York County | 654,372 | D+64.2 | →R 9.7 |
| Westchester County | 457,838 | D+26.1 | →R 10.1 |
| Erie County | 456,550 | D+9.6 | →R 5.0 |
| Bronx County | 362,890 | D+45.1 | →R 21.5 |
| Monroe County | 362,715 | D+19.0 | →R 1.9 |
| Onondaga County | 228,381 | D+17.2 | →R 3.3 |
Biggest shifts from 2020 to 2024: toward the Republican, Bronx County (21.5), Queens County (20.6), Richmond County (14.6); toward the Democrat, Yates County (2.3), Tompkins County (1.1), Hamilton County (0.6) — in points of margin.
County returns from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab (official state data), 2000–2024. Margin is the Democrat's share minus the Republican's, of all votes cast. In 2004 (96%) and 2012 (94%) the county figures add up to a different total from the certified statewide count (shown as a share of it) — New York's count the Democratic and Republican ballot lines only, not the minor-party lines that also nominated them.
Results by year
| Year | Winner | Democrat | Republican | Other | Margin | Nation | Turnout | EV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Kamala HarrisHarris lost | Harris 55.9%4,619,195 | Trump 43.3%3,578,899 | 0.8% | D+12.6 | R+1.5 | 60.5% | 28 |
| 2020 | Joe BidenBiden | Biden 60.9%5,230,985 | Trump 37.7%3,244,798 | 1.4% | D+23.1 | D+4.5 | 61.7% | 29 |
| 2016 | Hillary ClintonClinton lost | Clinton 59.2%4,556,124 | Trump 36.5%2,819,534 | 4.3% | D+22.6 | D+2.1 | 57.6% | 29 |
| 2012 | Barack ObamaObama | Obama 63.4%4,471,871 | Romney 35.2%2,485,432 | 1.4% | D+28.2 | D+3.9 | 53.5% | 29 |
| 2008 | Barack ObamaObama | Obama 62.9%4,804,945 | McCain 36.0%2,752,771 | 1.1% | D+26.9 | D+7.3 | 59.6% | 31 |
| 2004 | John KerryKerry lost | Kerry 58.4%4,314,280 | Bush 40.1%2,962,567 | 1.5% | D+18.3 | R+2.5 | 58.9% | 31 |
| 2000 | Al GoreGore lost | Gore 60.2%4,107,697 | Bush 35.2%2,403,374 | 4.6% | D+25.0 | D+0.5 | 56.2% | 33 |
| 1996 | Bill ClintonClinton | Clinton 59.5%3,756,177 | Dole 30.6%1,933,492 | Perot 8.0% | D+28.9 | D+8.5 | 52.9% | 33 |
| 1992 | Bill ClintonClinton | Clinton 49.7%3,444,450 | Bush 33.9%2,346,649 | Perot 15.8% | D+15.8 | D+5.6 | 57.8% | 33 |
| 1988 | Michael DukakisDukakis lost | Dukakis 51.6%3,347,882 | Bush 47.5%3,081,871 | 0.9% | D+4.1 | R+7.7 | 54.0% | 36 |
| 1984 | Ronald ReaganReagan | Mondale 45.8%3,119,609 | Reagan 53.8%3,664,763 | 0.3% | R+8.0 | R+18.2 | 57.2% | 36 |
| 1980 | Ronald ReaganReagan | Carter 44.0%2,728,372 | Reagan 46.7%2,893,831 | Anderson 7.5% | R+2.7 | R+9.7 | 52.9% | 41 |
| 1976 | Jimmy CarterCarter | Carter 52.0%3,389,558 | Ford 47.5%3,100,791 | 0.5% | D+4.4 | D+2.1 | — | 41 |
| 1972 | Richard NixonNixon | McGovern 41.2% | Nixon 58.5% | 0.3% | R+17.3 | R+23.2 | — | 41 |
| 1968 | Hubert HumphreyHumphrey lost | Humphrey 49.8% | Nixon 44.3% | Wallace 5.3% | D+5.5 | R+0.7 | — | 43 |
| 1964 | Lyndon B. JohnsonJohnson | Johnson 68.6% | Goldwater 31.3% | 0.1% | D+37.3 | D+22.6 | — | 43 |
| 1960 | John F. KennedyKennedy | Kennedy 52.5% | Nixon 47.3% | 0.2% | D+5.3 | D+0.2 | — | 45 |
Margin is the Democrat's share minus the Republican's, in percentage points; Nation is the same for the national popular vote. "Other" is everyone else combined, or the leading third-party candidate where one took 5% or more. Vote counts from 1976. Turnout is ballots cast as a share of eligible voters, from 1980 (UF Election Lab; the newest year is preliminary).
Electoral votes
Electoral votes change after each census, when House seats are reapportioned.
- 4519601950 census
- 431964–19681960 census
- 411972–19801970 census
- 361984–19881980 census
- 331992–20001990 census
- 312004–20082000 census
- 292012–20202010 census
- 282024–20282020 census
- 262032–2040projected
Projected: New York's share of House seats after the 2030 census if each state's population keeps changing at its pace since 2020, from the Census Bureau's 2024 American Community Survey population estimates (July 1, 2024). If the count were taken today it would have 27. An estimate, not a forecast.
Before 1960
New York cast electoral votes in 42 presidential elections before 1960, the first in 1792. It backed the eventual president in 36 of them.
| Year | Carried by | Electors | Margin | Backed winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican | 45 | +27.7 | ✓ |
| 1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican | 45 | +12.0 | ✓ |
| 1948 | Thomas E. Dewey Republican | 47 | +1.1 | – |
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic | 47 | +5.0 | ✓ |
| 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic | 47 | +3.6 | ✓ |
| 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic | 47 | +20.3 | ✓ |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic | 47 | +13.3 | ✓ |
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover Republican | 45 | +2.4 | ✓ |
| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge Republican | 45 | +26.9 | ✓ |
| 1920 | Warren G. Harding Republican | 45 | +41.1 | ✓ |
| 1916 | Charles Evans Hughes Republican | 45 | +7.3 | – |
| 1912 | Woodrow Wilson Democratic | 45 | +12.8 | ✓ |
| 1908 | William Howard Taft Republican | 39 | +13.2 | ✓ |
| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt Republican | 39 | +11.4 | ✓ |
| 1900 | William McKinley Republican | 36 | +9.6 | ✓ |
| 1896 | William McKinley Republican | 36 | +19.6 | ✓ |
| 1892 | Grover Cleveland Democratic | 36 | +3.6 | ✓ |
| 1888 | Benjamin Harrison Republican | 36 | +1.1 | ✓ |
| 1884 | Grover Cleveland Democratic | 36 | +0.1 | ✓ |
| 1880 | James A. Garfield Republican | 35 | +1.9 | ✓ |
| 1876 | Samuel J. Tilden Democratic | 35 | +3.2 | – |
| 1872 | Ulysses S. Grant Republican | 35 | +6.5 | ✓ |
| 1868 | Horatio Seymour Democratic | 33 | +1.2 | – |
| 1864 | Abraham Lincoln Republican | 33 | +0.9 | ✓ |
| 1860 | Abraham Lincoln Republican | 35 | +7.4 | ✓ |
| 1856 | John C. Frémont Republican | 35 | +13.4 | – |
| 1852 | Franklin Pierce Democratic | 35 | +5.5 | ✓ |
| 1848 | Zachary Taylor Whig | 36 | +21.6 | ✓ |
| 1844 | James K. Polk Democratic | 36 | +1.1 | ✓ |
| 1840 | William Henry Harrison Whig | 42 | +3.0 | ✓ |
| 1836 | Martin Van Buren Democratic | 42 | +9.3 | ✓ |
| 1832 | Andrew Jackson Democratic | 42 | +4.2 | ✓ |
| 1828 | Andrew Jackson DemocraticSplit: Jackson 20, Adams 16 | 36 | +2.9 | ✓ |
| 1824 | John Quincy Adams Democratic-RepublicanSplit: Adams 26, Crawford 5, Clay 4, Jackson 1 | 36 | — | ✓ |
| 1820 | James Monroe Democratic-Republican | 29 | — | ✓ |
| 1816 | James Monroe Democratic-Republican | 29 | — | ✓ |
| 1812 | DeWitt Clinton Democratic-Republican | 29 | — | – |
| 1808 | James Madison Democratic-RepublicanSplit: Madison 13, Clinton 6 | 19 | — | ✓ |
| 1804 | Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican | 19 | — | ✓ |
| 1800 | Thomas Jefferson Democratic-RepublicanVotes (two per elector): Jefferson 12, Burr 12 | 12 | — | ✓ |
| 1796 | John Adams FederalistVotes (two per elector): Adams 12, Pinckney 12 | 12 | — | ✓ |
| 1792 | George WashingtonVotes (two per elector): Washington 12, Clinton 12 | 12 | — | ✓ |
Margin: the winner's lead over the runner-up in the state's popular vote, in points. A dash means the legislature chose the electors (common before the 1830s) or no popular vote is on record. Each year links to that election's map and full results.