# 2016 United States presidential election in New York

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The 2016 United States presidential election in New York was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. New York voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her running mate Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. New York has 29 electoral votes in the Electoral College.
Prior to the election, New York was considered to be a state that Clinton would win or a safe blue state. Despite Trump's association with the state, New York remained a Democratic stronghold with Clinton winning with 59.01% of the vote, while Trump received 36.52% of the vote, a 22.49% Democratic margin of victory. On Election Day, Clinton was immediately declared the winner of New York when polls closed based on exit polling alone.
Despite Clinton's landslide victory, Trump won more counties, taking 45 counties statewide compared to Clinton's 17. Trump also flipped 19 counties that had voted for Barack Obama in 2012, tied with Minnesota for the third-most counties flipped in any state; only Iowa and Wisconsin had more. Clinton received a smaller vote share than outgoing President Barack Obama had in 2012, while Trump improved on Mitt Romney's performance despite losing the state by a large margin.
New York was the home state of both major party nominees, though Clinton was born and raised in Chicago. Trump was born and raised in New York City and has been long associated with the state. Clinton has been a resident of Chappaqua in suburban Westchester County since 1999 and represented the state in the U.S. Senate from 2001 to 2009. Trump became the second consecutive major-party presidential nominee to lose his home state by over 20 points, after Mitt Romney, who lost his home state of Massachusetts by a similar margin in 2012. Before Romney, the last nominee this happened to was Herbert Hoover in his home state of California during 1932. Trump also became the fourth winning presidential candidate to lose his state of residence, after James K. Polk, Woodrow Wilson, and Richard Nixon. Trump and Polk are the only ones to have lost their state of birth as well (also New York in Trump's case).
The election also marks the most recent cycle in which Trump would be on the presidential ballot as a legal resident of New York state; according to court filings, he registered Palm Beach, Florida, as his "primary residence" in 2019. This is the first time since 1944 in which New York voted more Republican than California.

## Primary elections

On April 19, 2016, in the presidential primaries, New York voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic and Republican parties' respective nominees for president. Registered members of each party only voted in their party's primary, while voters who were unaffiliated with either party didn't vote in the primary.

### Democratic primary

Two candidates appeared on the Democratic presidential primary ballot:
* Hillary Clinton
* Bernie Sanders
Similarly to the general election, both candidates in the Democratic primary had a connection to New York, as New York was Clinton's adopted home state and the birthplace of Sanders (who was running from neighboring Vermont).
New York Democratic primary, April 19, 2016 :
| Candidate | Popular vote | Popular vote | Estimated delegates | Estimated delegates | Estimated delegates |
| Candidate | Count | Percentage | Pledged | Unpledged | Total |
| Hillary Clinton | 1,133,980 | 57.54% | 139 | 41 | 180 |
| Bernie Sanders | 820,056 | 41.62% | 108 | 0 | 108 |
| Void | 11,306 | 0.57% | | | |
| Blank votes | 5,358 | 0.27% | | | |
| Uncommitted | — | — | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Total | 1,970,900 | 100% | 247 | 44 | 291 |
| Source: ||||||

### Republican primary

Three candidates appeared on the Republican presidential primary ballot:
* Ted Cruz
* John Kasich
* Donald Trump
New York Republican primary, April 19, 2016 :
| Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Actual delegate count | Actual delegate count | Actual delegate count |
| Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Bound | Unbound | Total |
| Donald Trump | 554,522 | 59.21% | 89 | 0 | 89 |
| John Kasich | 231,166 | 24.68% | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Ted Cruz | 136,083 | 14.53% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Blank & Void | 14,756 | 1.58% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unprojected delegates: | Unprojected delegates: | Unprojected delegates: | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total: | 936,527 | 100.00% | 95 | 0 | 95 |
| Source: The Green Papers ||||||

## General election
### Predictions

| Source | Ranking | As of |
| Los Angeles Times | Safe D | November 6, 2016 |
| CNN | Safe D | November 4, 2016 |
| Cook Political Report | Safe D | November 7, 2016 |
| Electoral-vote.com | Safe D | November 8, 2016 |
| Rothenberg Political Report | Safe D | November 7, 2016 |
| Sabato's Crystal Ball | Safe D | November 7, 2016 |
| RealClearPolitics | Safe D | November 8, 2016 |
| Fox News | Safe D | November 7, 2016 |

### Polling

Polls projected New York to remain safely in the Democratic column for former Senator Hillary Clinton, despite it also being the home state of Donald Trump for his entire life. The last poll showed Hillary Clinton leading Trump 51% to 34%, and the average of the final 3 polls statewide showed Clinton leading Trump 52% to 31%, which was accurate compared to the results.

### Debate

The first Presidential Debate took place at Hofstra University. Snap polls indicated that Clinton won.

### Candidates

New York is a fusion state, which means that candidates are allowed to be on multiple lines. Those on the ballot were:
Democratic, Women's Equality and Working Families Parties
* Hillary Clinton / Tim Kaine
Conservative and Republican parties
* Donald Trump / Mike Pence
Green party
* Jill Stein / Ajamu Baraka
Independence and Libertarian parties
* Gary Johnson / Bill Weld
Gary Johnson and Bill Weld were nominated by the Libertarian and Independence Parties using separate elector slates. Their votes have been added together in the below table for convenience.
With the introduction of computerized voting, write-in candidates were permitted. The following is a certified list of persons who made valid presidential write in filings with the State Board of Elections
* Arantxa Aranja
* Neer R. Asherie
* Mark Blickley
* Robert L. Buchanan
* Gary S. Canns
* Willie Carter
* Darrell Castle
* Ariel T. Cohen
* William J. Connolly
* Rocky De La Fuente
* Jason Fried
* Zoltan Istvan Gyurko
* Ben Hartnell
* Tom Hoefling
* Michael Frederick Ingbar
* Lynn Kahn
* Chris Keniston
* Gloria La Riva
* Jeffrey Mackler
* Mike Maturen
* Evan McMullin
* Monica Moorehead
* Jason Mutford
* Clifton Roberts
* Marshall Schoenke
* Ryan Alan Scott
* Emidio Soltysik
* Tony Valdivia
* J. J. Vogel-Walcutt
* Esther Welsh
* Barbara Whitaker
* Robert M. Wolff
According to The New York Times, only 300 write-in votes were counted in 2012, while 63,239 were recorded as "Blank, Void or Scattering".

### Results

2016 United States presidential election in New York :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Running mate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes |
| | Democratic | Hillary Clinton | Tim Kaine | 4,379,783 | 56.08% | |
| | Working Families | Hillary Clinton | Tim Kaine | 140,043 | 1.83% | |
| | Women's Equality | Hillary Clinton | Tim Kaine | 36,292 | 0.47% | |
| | Total | Hillary Clinton | Tim Kaine | 4,556,118 | 59.38% | 29 |
| | Republican | Donald Trump | Mike Pence | 2,527,141 | 32.94% | |
| | Conservative | Donald Trump | Mike Pence | 292,392 | 3.81% | |
| | Total | Donald Trump | Mike Pence | 2,819,533 | 36.75% | 0 |
| | Independence | Gary Johnson | Bill Weld | 119,160 | 1.55% | 0 |
| | Libertarian | Gary Johnson | Bill Weld | 57,438 | 0.75% | 0 |
| | Total | Gary Johnson | Bill Weld | 176,598 | 2.30% | |
| | Green | Jill Stein | Ajamu Baraka | 107,935 | 1.41% | 0 |
| | Official write-in | Evan McMullin | Mindy Finn | 10,397 | 0.14% | 0 |
| | Official write-in | Others | Others | 2,518 | 0.03% | 0 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 7,673,099 | 100.00% | 29 |

#### New York City results

| 2016 Presidential Election in New York City | 2016 Presidential Election in New York City | 2016 Presidential Election in New York City | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Staten Island | Total | Total |
| | Democratic- Working Families- Women's Equality | Hillary Clinton | 579,013 | 353,646 | 640,553 | 517,220 | 78,143 | 2,159,575 | 78.99% |
| | Democratic- Working Families- Women's Equality | Hillary Clinton | 86.6% | 88.5% | 79.5% | 75.4% | 41.0% | 2,159,575 | 78.99% |
| | Republican- Conservative | Donald Trump | 64,930 | 37,797 | 141,044 | 149,341 | 101,437 | 494,549 | 18.1% |
| | Republican- Conservative | Donald Trump | 9.7% | 9.5% | 17.5% | 21.8% | 56.1% | 494,549 | 18.1% |
| | Others | Others | 24,997 | 8,079 | 24,008 | 19,832 | 5,380 | 82,296 | 3.0% |
| | Others | Others | 3.7% | 2.0% | 3.0% | 2.9% | 3.0% | 82,296 | 3.0% |
| TOTAL | TOTAL | TOTAL | 668,940 | 399,522 | 805,605 | 686,393 | 184,960 | 2,736,420 | 100.00% |

#### By New York City Council district

Clinton won 47 of 51 New York City Council districts, including one held by a Republican, while Trump won 4 of 51 city council districts, including two held by Democrats.
| District | Clinton | Trump | City-Council Member |
| 1st | 83.3% | 12.6% | Margaret Chin |
| 2nd | 86.6% | 9.3% | Rosie Méndez |
| 3rd | 87.1% | 9.0% | Corey Johnson |
| 4th | 78.1% | 17.5% | Daniel Garodnick |
| 5th | 80.1% | 15.5% | Ben Kallos |
| 6th | 87.2% | 9.0% | Helen Rosenthal |
| 7th | 91.9% | 4.8% | Mark Levine |
| 8th | 92.8% | 5.0% | Melissa Mark-Viverito |
| 9th | 94.6% | 2.7% | Inez Dickens |
| 10th | 89.8% | 7.1% | Ydanis Rodriguez |
| 11th | 81.5% | 15.1% | Andrew Cohen |
| 12th | 94.1% | 4.3% | Andy King |
| 13th | 66.6% | 30.5% | James Vacca |
| 14th | 93.0% | 5.3% | Fernando Cabrera |
| 15th | 92.1% | 6.1% | Ritchie Torres |
| 16th | 94.8% | 3.9% | Vanessa Gibson |
| 17th | 93.5% | 4.8% | Rafael Salamanca |
| 18th | 91.6% | 6.6% | Annabel Palma |
| 19th | 54.6% | 41.9% | Paul Vallone |
| 20th | 69.0% | 28.1% | Peter Koo |
| 21st | 87.3% | 10.5% | Julissa Ferreras |
| 22nd | 77.3% | 18.5% | Costa Constantinides |
| 23rd | 71.0% | 26.2% | Barry Grodenchik |
| 24th | 72.3% | 24.7% | Rory Lancman |
| 25th | 80.0% | 17.0% | Daniel Dromm |
| 26th | 82.1% | 14.4% | Jimmy Van Bramer |
| 27th | 94.8% | 3.7% | Daneek Miller |
| 28th | 91.2% | 7.4% | Adrienne Adams |
| 29th | 68.8% | 27.4% | Karen Koslowitz |
| 30th | 56.4% | 39.9% | Elizabeth Crowley |
| 31st | 89.1% | 9.0% | Donovan Richards |
| 32nd | 59.6% | 37.6% | Eric Ulrich |
| 33rd | 85.6% | 10.4% | Stephen Levin |
| 34th | 89.1% | 7.2% | Antonio Reynoso |
| 35th | 91.6% | 5.3% | Laurie Cumbo |
| 36th | 95.1% | 1.9% | Robert Cornegy |
| 37th | 91.8% | 5.5% | Rafael Espinal |
| 38th | 79.7% | 16.8% | Carlos Menchaca |
| 39th | 85.0% | 11.4% | Brad Lander |
| 40th | 91.9% | 5.3% | Mathieu Eugene |
| 41st | 95.6% | 2.7% | Darlene Mealy |
| 42nd | 95.2% | 3.5% | Inez Barron |
| 43rd | 54.7% | 40.9% | Vincent J. Gentile |
| 44th | 31.4% | 64.5% | David G. Greenfield |
| 45th | 84.2% | 13.6% | Jumaane Williams |
| 46th | 75.0% | 22.8% | Alan Maisel |
| 47th | 54.2% | 43.0% | Mark Treyger |
| 48th | 38.8% | 58.1% | Chaim Deutsch |
| 49th | 67.1% | 29.6% | Debi Rose |
| 50th | 34.9% | 62.0% | Steven Matteo |
| 51st | 25.5% | 71.9% | Joe Borelli |

#### By county

| County | Hillary Clinton Democratic | Hillary Clinton Democratic | Donald Trump Republican | Donald Trump Republican | Various candidates Other parties | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Margin | Total votes cast |
| County | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | Total votes cast |
| Albany | 83,071 | 59.41% | 47,808 | 34.19% | 8,939 | 6.40% | 35,263 | 25.22% | 139,818 |
| Allegany | 4,882 | 26.12% | 12,525 | 67.01% | 1,285 | 6.87% | -7,643 | -40.89% | 18,692 |
| Bronx | 353,646 | 88.52% | 37,797 | 9.46% | 8,079 | 2.02% | 315,849 | 79.06% | 399,522 |
| Broome | 39,212 | 45.56% | 40,943 | 47.57% | 5,917 | 6.87% | -1,731 | -2.01% | 86,072 |
| Cattaraugus | 9,497 | 30.48% | 19,692 | 63.19% | 1,972 | 6.33% | -10,195 | -32.71% | 31,161 |
| Cayuga | 13,522 | 40.76% | 17,384 | 52.41% | 2,266 | 6.83% | -3,862 | -11.65% | 33,172 |
| Chautauqua | 19,091 | 35.20% | 31,594 | 58.25% | 3,549 | 6.55% | -12,503 | -23.05% | 54,234 |
| Chemung | 13,757 | 38.09% | 20,097 | 55.64% | 2,265 | 6.27% | -6,340 | -17.55% | 36,119 |
| Chenango | 6,775 | 33.61% | 11,921 | 59.13% | 1,464 | 7.26% | -5,146 | -25.52% | 20,160 |
| Clinton | 15,059 | 46.91% | 14,449 | 45.01% | 2,597 | 8.08% | 610 | 1.90% | 32,105 |
| Columbia | 15,284 | 49.46% | 13,756 | 44.51% | 1,862 | 6.03% | 1,528 | 4.95% | 30,902 |
| Cortland | 8,771 | 43.33% | 9,900 | 48.90% | 1,573 | 7.77% | -1,129 | -5.57% | 20,244 |
| Delaware | 6,627 | 33.48% | 11,942 | 60.34% | 1,223 | 6.18% | -5,315 | -26.86% | 19,792 |
| Dutchess | 62,285 | 47.54% | 61,821 | 47.19% | 6,912 | 5.27% | 464 | 0.35% | 131,018 |
| Erie | 215,456 | 50.86% | 188,303 | 44.45% | 19,866 | 4.69% | 27,153 | 6.41% | 423,625 |
| Essex | 7,762 | 45.08% | 7,958 | 46.22% | 1,498 | 8.70% | -196 | -1.14% | 17,218 |
| Franklin | 7,297 | 43.05% | 8,221 | 48.50% | 1,434 | 8.45% | -924 | -5.45% | 16,952 |
| Fulton | 6,496 | 30.62% | 13,462 | 63.46% | 1,256 | 5.92% | -6,966 | -32.84% | 21,214 |
| Genesee | 7,650 | 28.94% | 16,915 | 63.99% | 1,867 | 7.07% | -9,265 | -35.05% | 26,432 |
| Greene | 7,405 | 33.58% | 13,073 | 59.29% | 1,572 | 7.13% | -5,668 | -25.71% | 22,050 |
| Hamilton | 949 | 29.43% | 2,064 | 64.00% | 212 | 6.57% | -1,115 | -34.57% | 3,225 |
| Herkimer | 8,083 | 30.79% | 16,699 | 63.60% | 1,473 | 5.61% | -8,616 | -32.81% | 26,255 |
| Jefferson | 13,809 | 36.12% | 21,763 | 56.92% | 2,664 | 6.96% | -7,954 | -20.80% | 38,236 |
| Kings | 640,553 | 79.51% | 141,044 | 17.51% | 24,008 | 2.98% | 499,509 | 62.00% | 805,605 |
| Lewis | 3,146 | 27.78% | 7,400 | 65.34% | 779 | 6.88% | -4,254 | -37.56% | 11,325 |
| Livingston | 10,697 | 35.62% | 17,290 | 57.57% | 2,044 | 6.81% | -6,593 | -21.95% | 30,031 |
| Madison | 11,667 | 38.81% | 15,936 | 53.01% | 2,461 | 8.18% | -4,269 | -14.20% | 30,064 |
| Monroe | 188,592 | 54.23% | 136,582 | 39.27% | 22,616 | 6.50% | 52,010 | 14.94% | 347,790 |
| Montgomery | 6,595 | 34.61% | 11,301 | 59.31% | 1,158 | 6.08% | -4,706 | -24.70% | 19,054 |
| Nassau | 332,154 | 51.33% | 292,025 | 45.13% | 22,943 | 3.54% | 40,129 | 6.20% | 647,122 |
| New York | 579,013 | 86.56% | 64,930 | 9.71% | 24,997 | 3.73% | 514,083 | 76.85% | 668,940 |
| Niagara | 35,559 | 38.48% | 51,961 | 56.23% | 4,882 | 5.29% | -16,402 | -17.75% | 92,402 |
| Oneida | 33,743 | 37.08% | 51,437 | 56.52% | 5,829 | 6.40% | -17,694 | -19.44% | 91,009 |
| Onondaga | 112,337 | 53.89% | 83,649 | 40.13% | 12,454 | 5.98% | 28,688 | 13.76% | 208,440 |
| Ontario | 22,233 | 42.33% | 26,029 | 49.55% | 4,265 | 8.12% | -3,796 | -7.22% | 52,527 |
| Orange | 68,278 | 44.91% | 76,645 | 50.42% | 7,098 | 4.67% | -8,367 | -5.51% | 152,021 |
| Orleans | 4,470 | 27.29% | 10,936 | 66.76% | 974 | 5.95% | -6,466 | -39.47% | 16,380 |
| Oswego | 17,095 | 35.48% | 27,688 | 57.47% | 3,397 | 7.05% | -10,593 | -21.99% | 48,180 |
| Otsego | 10,451 | 40.72% | 13,308 | 51.85% | 1,909 | 7.43% | -2,857 | -11.13% | 25,668 |
| Putnam | 19,366 | 39.88% | 27,024 | 55.65% | 2,173 | 4.47% | -7,658 | -15.77% | 48,563 |
| Queens | 517,220 | 75.35% | 149,341 | 21.76% | 19,832 | 2.89% | 367,879 | 53.59% | 686,393 |
| Rensselaer | 32,717 | 45.72% | 33,726 | 47.13% | 5,119 | 7.15% | -1,009 | -1.41% | 71,562 |
| Richmond | 74,143 | 40.97% | 101,437 | 56.05% | 5,380 | 2.98% | -27,294 | -15.08% | 180,960 |
| Rockland | 69,342 | 51.33% | 60,911 | 45.09% | 4,834 | 3.58% | 8,431 | 6.24% | 135,087 |
| Saratoga | 50,913 | 44.62% | 54,575 | 47.83% | 8,606 | 7.55% | -3,662 | -3.21% | 114,094 |
| Schenectady | 33,747 | 50.16% | 28,953 | 43.03% | 4,580 | 6.81% | 4,794 | 7.13% | 67,280 |
| Schoharie | 4,240 | 30.18% | 8,831 | 62.85% | 979 | 6.97% | -4,591 | -32.67% | 14,050 |
| Schuyler | 3,091 | 35.24% | 5,050 | 57.57% | 631 | 7.19% | -1,959 | -22.33% | 8,772 |
| Seneca | 5,697 | 40.75% | 7,236 | 51.76% | 1,047 | 7.49% | -1,539 | -11.01% | 13,980 |
| St. Lawrence | 16,488 | 42.11% | 19,942 | 50.93% | 2,728 | 6.96% | -3,454 | -8.82% | 39,158 |
| Steuben | 12,526 | 29.82% | 26,831 | 63.88% | 2,645 | 6.30% | -14,305 | -34.06% | 42,002 |
| Suffolk | 303,951 | 44.62% | 350,570 | 51.46% | 26,733 | 3.92% | -46,619 | -6.84% | 681,254 |
| Sullivan | 12,568 | 41.96% | 15,931 | 53.18% | 1,456 | 4.86% | -3,363 | -11.22% | 29,955 |
| Tioga | 7,526 | 33.75% | 13,260 | 59.46% | 1,513 | 6.79% | -5,734 | -25.71% | 22,299 |
| Tompkins | 28,890 | 67.69% | 10,371 | 24.30% | 3,417 | 8.01% | 18,519 | 43.39% | 42,678 |
| Ulster | 44,597 | 52.29% | 35,239 | 41.32% | 5,454 | 6.39% | 9,358 | 10.97% | 85,290 |
| Warren | 13,091 | 41.68% | 15,751 | 50.15% | 2,566 | 8.17% | -2,660 | -8.47% | 31,408 |
| Washington | 9,098 | 37.09% | 13,610 | 55.49% | 1,820 | 7.42% | -4,512 | -18.40% | 24,528 |
| Wayne | 13,473 | 33.95% | 23,380 | 58.91% | 2,834 | 7.14% | -9,907 | -24.96% | 39,687 |
| Westchester | 272,926 | 64.88% | 131,238 | 31.20% | 16,491 | 3.92% | 141,688 | 33.68% | 420,655 |
| Wyoming | 3,904 | 22.57% | 12,442 | 71.93% | 952 | 5.50% | -8,538 | -49.36% | 17,298 |
| Yates | 3,659 | 36.35% | 5,660 | 56.23% | 747 | 7.42% | -2,001 | -19.88% | 10,066 |
| Totals | 4,556,142 | 59.00% | 2,819,557 | 36.51% | 346,096 | 4.49% | 1,736,585 | 22.49% | 7,721,795 |

##### Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

* Broome (County Seat: Binghamton)
* Cayuga (County Seat: Auburn)
* Cortland (County Seat: Cortland)
* Essex (County Seat: Elizabethtown)
* Franklin (County Seat: Malone)
* Madison (County Seat: Wampsville)
* Niagara (County Seat: Lockport)
* Orange (County Seat: Goshen)
* Oswego (County Seat: Waterloo)
* Otsego (County Seat: Cooperstown)
* Rensselaer (County Seat: Troy)
* Richmond (coterminous with Staten Island, a borough of New York City)
* Saratoga (County Seat: Ballston Spa)
* Seneca (County Seat: Waterloo)
* St. Lawrence (County Seat: Canton)
* Suffolk (County Seat: Riverhead)
* Sullivan (County Seat: Monticello)
* Warren (County Seat: Queensbury)
* Washington (County Seat: Hudson Falls)
* Democratic — +12.5-15%
* Democratic — +7.5-10%
* Democratic — +5-7.5%
* Democratic — +2.5-5%
* Democratic — +0-2.5%
* Republican — +0-2.5%
* Republican — +2.5-5%
* Republican — +5-7.5%
* Republican — +7.5-10%
* Republican — +10-12.5%
* Republican — +12.5-15%
* Republican — +>15%
* Democratic — +12.5-15%
* Democratic — +7.5-10%
* Democratic — +5-7.5%
* Democratic — +2.5-5%
* Democratic — +0-2.5%
* Republican — +0-2.5%
* Republican — +2.5-5%
* Republican — +5-7.5%
* Republican — +7.5-10%
* Republican — +10-12.5%
* Republican — +12.5-15%
* Republican — +>15%
* Democratic  Hold Republican  Hold  Gain from Democratic

#### By congressional district

Clinton won 18 of 27 congressional districts. Both Trump and Clinton won a district held by the other party.
| District | Clinton | Trump | Representative |
| 1st | 42% | 54% | Lee Zeldin |
| 2nd | 44% | 53% | Peter T. King |
| 3rd | 51% | 45% | Steve Israel |
| 3rd | 51% | 45% | Thomas Suozzi |
| 4th | 53% | 43% | Kathleen Rice |
| 5th | 85% | 13% | Gregory Meeks |
| 6th | 65% | 32% | Grace Meng |
| 7th | 86% | 10% | Nydia Velázquez |
| 8th | 84% | 13% | Hakeem Jeffries |
| 9th | 83% | 14% | Yvette Clarke |
| 10th | 77% | 19% | Jerry Nadler |
| 11th | 44% | 53% | Dan Donovan |
| 12th | 82% | 13% | Carolyn Maloney |
| 13th | 92% | 5% | Charles B. Rangel |
| 13th | 92% | 5% | Adriano Espaillat |
| 14th | 77% | 20% | Joe Crowley |
| 15th | 94% | 5% | Jose Serrano |
| 16th | 75% | 22% | Eliot Engel |
| 17th | 58% | 38% | Nita Lowey |
| 18th | 47% | 49% | Sean Patrick Maloney |
| 19th | 44% | 50% | John Faso |
| 20th | 53% | 40% | Paul Tonko |
| 21st | 39% | 53% | Elise Stefanik |
| 22nd | 39% | 54% | Richard L. Hanna |
| 22nd | 39% | 54% | Claudia Tenney |
| 23rd | 39% | 54% | Tom Reed |
| 24th | 49% | 45% | John Katko |
| 25th | 55% | 39% | Louise Slaughter |
| 26th | 57% | 38% | Brian Higgins |
| 27th | 35% | 59% | Chris Collins |

## Analysis

Reflecting a strong nationwide trend of rural areas swinging hard against Clinton, Trump improved greatly upon recent Republican performances in rural Upstate New York. Upstate New York was historically a staunchly Republican region, although it had been trending Democratic since the 1990s, and Democrat Barack Obama had twice performed very strongly across both urban and rural upstate in the preceding two elections. Trump won 19 counties in New York State that voted for President Obama in 2012, 17 of which were rural upstate counties. Clinton won Upstate New York's traditionally Democratic cities and held onto the urban counties upstate. However, Trump also made gains in urban parts of upstate, which had long been in economic decline, due to his strength in economically distressed areas and his appeal to working-class whites who traditionally vote Democratic. Trump's message on trade policy and pledge to halt job outsourcing appealed strongly to the Rust Belt region of the United States, where many local economies had been ravaged by the loss of industrial jobs, which extends into Upstate New York cities like Binghamton, Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse.
In Erie County, where Buffalo is located in Western New York bordering the Great Lakes, Clinton won only 51-44 compared with Obama's 57–41 victory in 2012. Clinton suffered her strongest swings against her in traditionally Democratic Northern New York along the Saint Lawrence River. The only upstate county where Clinton won by a stronger margin than Obama had in 2012 was the liberal Democratic stronghold of Tompkins County, home to the college town of Ithaca where Cornell University is located. Clinton and Obama both received 68% in the county, but Trump's unpopularity with young people and students led him to fall to only 24% of the vote compared with 28% for Romney. Hillary Clinton's landslide statewide win was powered by an overwhelmingly lopsided victory in the massively populated five boroughs of New York City, the largest city in the United States, despite Donald Trump's longtime popular cultural association with the city. In New York City, Hillary Clinton received 2,164,575 votes (79.0% of the vote) compared with only 494,549 votes (18.0% of the vote) for Donald Trump. This represented a slight fall from Barack Obama's historic 81.2% in the city in 2012, and the borough of Staten Island flipped from Obama to Trump. However, Trump's percentage was virtually unchanged from Romney's 17.8%. With huge victories in the other four boroughs, Clinton's 60.9% victory margin over Trump was a slight decrease from Obama's record 63.4% margin over Romney, making Clinton's win the second-widest victory margin for a presidential candidate in New York City history.
Trump's birthplace borough of Queens gave Clinton over 75% of the vote and less than 22% to Trump. In Manhattan, home to Trump Tower, Trump's famous landmark residence, Clinton received nearly 87% while Trump received less than 10% of the vote, the worst performance ever for a major party presidential candidate in Manhattan. This made Trump's home borough one of only 3 counties in the state where Trump did worse than Mitt Romney had in 2012, along with Westchester and Tompkins counties. In the populated suburbs around New York City, Hillary Clinton won overall, although, with the sole exception of her county of residence, there were strong swings against her compared with President Obama's performance. The downstate suburban counties around the city were historically Republican bastions, until Hillary's husband Bill Clinton made dramatic suburban gains for Democrats in the 1990s and easily swept every suburban New York county in his 1996 re-election campaign. North of the city, Clinton significantly further improved on Barack Obama's landslide margin in wealthy Westchester County, where the Clintons own their primary residence in Chappaqua, New York. Clinton won Westchester County 65-31 compared with Obama's 62–37 victory over Mitt Romney. Conversely, Trump made major gains on Long Island, as Clinton won Nassau County by only a slightly reduced 6-point margin rather than the 8-point margin by which Obama had won it, while Suffolk County saw an even bigger swing, going from a 4-point win for Obama to a 7-point win for Trump, the first Republican victory in the county since 1992.
While heavily Democratic New York City had secured consistent Democratic landslides in New York State for 3 decades, since 1992 every Democratic presidential candidate would have still carried New York State even without the massive Democratic vote margins provided by the 5 boroughs, albeit by substantially closer margins. In 2012, Obama won New York State outside of New York City with 54.03% of the vote compared with Mitt Romney's 44.54%. With Donald Trump having made major gains over Romney's performance across Upstate New York and improving overall in suburban downstate, Hillary Clinton was heavily dependent on New York City for her victory; her margin of 1,724,416 votes in the Five Boroughs accounted for almost all of her statewide majority. Clinton did manage to continue the Democratic winning streak in New York State outside of New York City, albeit just barely. Removing the 5 boroughs of New York City from the result, Clinton received 2,391,549 votes while Trump received 2,324,985 votes, meaning Clinton would have won New York State without the city by 66,564 votes, a margin of 1.4% out of all statewide votes cast outside of the city. However, when removing the ten counties in the state that are part of the New York metropolitan area (The Boroughs, Long Island, and Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester Counties), Trump became the first Republican to carry Upstate since George H. W. Bush did so in 1988, obtaining 1,463,217 votes in the state's other 52 counties compared to Clinton's 1,393,810 votes, a margin of 69,407 votes, though George W. Bush came within 8,056 votes of John Kerry in Upstate during the 2004 election. The 2016 United States Senate election in New York held on the same day turned notably different. While Clinton only carried 12 upstate counties, Chuck Schumer won all counties in New York state except 5 and captured over 70% of the vote. As of the 2024 United States presidential election, this is the most recent presidential election where the following counties voted Republican: Broome, Essex, Rensselaer, and Saratoga.