Final NY vote counts for Harris-Trump race show red shift since 2020 race. See the numbers
There was never any doubt Kamala Harris would win New York and its 28 electoral votes by running up huge margins in heavily Democratic New York City and other big population centers.
And win it she did, by about 1 million votes and 12.4 percentage points over Donald Trump — a blue-state consolation prize for Harris as the Republican prevailed nationwide in both the electoral college and popular vote.
But vote counts finalized this week for New York and its 62 counties show in detail a sharp Democratic drop-off from Joe Biden's 23-point glide against Trump in 2020. Across the state, from Long Island to Buffalo, Harris pulled in fewer votes than Biden had won in most counties, while Trump made gains that further narrowed the gap in the Nov. 5 election.
Those combined factors shifted counts toward Trump in densely populated areas, even those that still voted heavily for Harris. Trump lost his native Queens, for example, by 24 points, but his margin of defeat had narrowed by almost 184,000 votes in comparison to 2020.
Here are some key points from the statewide and county-by-county totals certified by state officials on Monday and released by the Board of Elections:
What was overall outcome for Harris, Trump in New York?
Harris won New York by 55.1%-42.7% with 8.4 million total votes cast, about 300,000 fewer than in 2020.
More than 4.6 million New Yorkers voted for Harris, giving her 626,000 fewer votes than Biden won in 2020. Almost 3.6 million ballots were cast for Trump, about 327,000 more than he got four years earlier.
How did Harris and Trump fare in New York City?
Around a third of the state's votes were cast in New York City, which Harris easily won by 38 points or more than 1 million votes — the same as her statewide victory margin.
But the same sort of shift that occurred in Queens also happened in heavily Democratic Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx, due more to Harris drops than to Trump gains. Harris won 80% of the vote in Manhattan and crushed Trump by 63 points, yet her margin in that borough narrowed by almost 100,000 votes compared to Biden's 2020 win.
Democratic victory margins in the Bronx and Brooklyn narrowed by 124,000 and 133,000, respectively.
Where in New York did Trump make the biggest net gains?
In addition to New York City, Trump also made strides on Long Island, a key suburban battleground of 4 million people that he lost to Biden in 2020 but won this time.
In both Long Island counties, Nassau and Suffolk, Trump expanded his vote tallies while Harris fell below Biden's 2020 counts — a net shift of 175,000 votes in Trump's favor.
In the Hudson Valley suburbs, Trump handily won Rockland County by 11.6 points after losing the county to Biden by 1.7 points four years earlier.
How did Harris do in NY's other Dem strongholds?
However much the margins may have slipped since 2020, Harris still scored double-digit wins in each of the counties with New York's biggest upstate cities — Buffalo, Yonkers, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany — and in other Democratic strongholds like Ulster County.
The 10 counties where Harris thumped Trump by the biggest percentage differences were: Albany (25.2%), Bronx (44.5%), Kings/Brooklyn (42.6%), Monroe (18.7%), New York/Manhattan (63%), Onondaga (16.9%), Queens (23.9%), Tompkins (49.2%), Ulster (18.2%) and Westchester (25.7%).
Where in New York did Trump win by the largest margins?
Trump trounced Harris in New York City's GOP bastion of Staten Island by 29 points, nearly double his 2020 margin, and scored his other biggest wins in the sparsely populated rural counties that form a sea of red around the upstate cities. He ran up huge margins but with relatively low counts in those places.
The 10 counties where Trump won by the widest percentage margins were: Allegany (42.4%), Lewis (43.4%), Orleans (39.9%), Richmond/Staten Island (29.2%), Schoharie (30%), Steuben (31.3%), Tioga (22.5%), Washington (20.9%), Wayne (22.7%) and Wyoming (47.3%).
Did Harris outperform Biden in any counties?
The vice president trounced Trump by almost 50 points in Tompkins County, home to the city of Ithaca and Cornell University. Bucking the trend elsewhere in New York, Harris won 1,000 more votes in that county than Biden had in 2020.
Chris McKenna covers government and politics for The Journal News and USA Today Network. Reach him at cmckenna@gannett.com.
This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: 2024 Presidential election: Final NY vote tallies shows Trump shift
