The 2024 presidential election will be the closest New York has ever turned red in nearly 40 years, and Donald Trump will be the first Republican in 20 years to hold his electoral lead to less than 20 points.
Vice President Kamala Harris led Trump with just 11.4% of the vote, with only 6% of votes still counted, according to the state election board.
The gap between Democrats and Republicans hasn't been that narrow since 1988, when Michael Dukakis defeated George H.W. Bush by 4.1 percentage points and ultimately lost the election to the Republican candidate.
Democrats have maintained a strong lead ever since, and that lead has yet to return to single digits.
- 1992: Bill Clinton beat Bush by 15.85%.
- 1996: Clinton defeated Bob Dole by 28.8%.
- 2000: Mr. Gore beats Mr. George W. Bush by 25 percentage points.
- 2004: John Kerry beats George W. Bush by 18%.
- 2008: Barack Obama defeated John McCain by 36.85%.
- 2012: Obama defeated Mitt Romney by 28.18%.
- 2016: Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump by 22.37%
- 2020: Joe Biden beat Trump by 23.13%
The rebound in Republican support was also significant in New York City, where Harris suffered the lowest turnout for a Democratic candidate since 1988 in the Big Apple.
More than 97% of scanners were reporting as of the end of Tuesday night, and Mr. Trump boasted 30.44% of the New York City vote, the newspaper said. City Election Commission.
The percentage is the highest total in Trump's three presidential campaigns, and he has steadily grown stronger over the years, with approval ratings surging in the Bronx, Manhattan and Queens.
Much of Trump's increase in support has been traced to the Bronx, where votes cast in his name jumped 35% between 2020 and 2024. This year, 91,542 residents voted Republican, compared to just 67,740 when he was running against President Biden.
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Manhattan residents also swung heavily toward Trump over the past two elections. Trump received 103,060 votes this year, a 20% increase compared to 2020.
Most of the support came from President Trump's home borough of Queens, where 247,891 residents pledged to vote for the former president. The total spike was 16.5%. Compare that to the number of votes he received in 2020.
Trump's approval ratings also increased in Brooklyn and Staten Island, but by much smaller margins, with turnout in his name increasing by nearly 8% and 0.7%, respectively.
Mr. Trump's improved vote share shows the growing base of support he has built since the Queens native began his political career in 2016, when he won just 18% of New York City's votes. are. In 2020, it jumped to 23%.
A whopping 3,066,581 New Yorkers voted in 2020, and nearly 258,600 in 2024. In 2016, there were 2,759,389 people.
President Trump's growing support base shows that the Democratic Party's stronghold in New York City is shrinking in the deep blue heart of the state.
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Harris won just 67.7% of the vote in the Big Apple in Tuesday's race, according to preliminary results from the city's Board of Elections.
This represents a significant drop compared to her predecessor.
Biden won the 2020 presidential election with 75.7% of the vote, but that was still a decline from Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful 2016 campaign, when she won 78%.
Despite the narrow margin, Harris was expected to cruise to victory and win all 28 of the Empire State's electors.
