United States presidential elections in New York

Presidential elections in New York
Number of elections	58
Voted Democratic	25
Voted Republican	21
Voted Whig	2
Voted Democratic-Republican	7
Voted Federalist	1
Voted other	1
Voted for winning candidate	47
Voted for losing candidate	11

Following is a table of United States presidential elections in New York, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1788, New York has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the election of 1788–1789, when it failed to appoint its allotment of eight electors because of a deadlock in the state legislature.

Winners of the state are in bold. The shading refers to the state winner, and not the national winner.

Elections from 1864 to present

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Other national candidates^[b]	Votes	Percent	Electoral Votes
2020^[1]	Joe Biden	5,244,006	60.86	Donald Trump	3,250,230	37.75	—			29
2016^[2]	Donald Trump^[c]	2,819,557	36.51	Hillary Clinton	4,556,142	59.00	-			29
2012^[3]	Barack Obama	4,485,741	63.35	Mitt Romney	2,490,431	35.17	-			29
2008^[4]	Barack Obama	4,804,945	62.88	John McCain	2,752,771	36.03	-			31
2004^[5]	George W. Bush	2,962,567	40.08	John Kerry	4,314,280	58.37	-			31
2000^[6]	George W. Bush^[c]	2,403,374	35.23	Al Gore	4,107,697	60.21	-			33
1996^[7]	Bill Clinton	3,756,177	59.47	Bob Dole	1,933,492	30.61	Ross Perot	503,458	7.97	33
1992	Bill Clinton	3,444,450	49.73	George H. W. Bush	2,346,649	33.88	Ross Perot	1,090,721	15.75	33
1988	George H. W. Bush	3,081,871	47.52	Michael Dukakis	3,347,882	51.62	-			36
1984	Ronald Reagan	3,664,763	53.84	Walter Mondale	3,119,609	45.83	-			36
1980	Ronald Reagan	2,893,831	46.66	Jimmy Carter	2,728,372	43.99	John B. Anderson	467,801	7.54	41
1976	Jimmy Carter	3,389,558	51.95	Gerald Ford	3,100,791	47.52	-			41
1972	Richard Nixon	4,192,778	58.54	George McGovern	2,951,084	41.21	-			41
1968	Richard Nixon	3,007,932	44.30	Hubert Humphrey	3,378,470	49.76	George Wallace	358,864	5.29	43
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson	4,913,156	68.56	Barry Goldwater	2,243,559	31.31	-			43
1960	John F. Kennedy	3,830,085	52.53	Richard Nixon	3,446,419	47.27	-			45
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower	4,340,340	61.19	Adlai Stevenson II	2,750,769	38.78	T. Coleman Andrews/ Unpledged Electors^[d]	-		45
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower	3,952,815	55.45	Adlai Stevenson II	3,104,601	43.55	-			45
1948	Harry S. Truman	2,780,204	45.01	Thomas E. Dewey	2,841,163	45.99	Strom Thurmond	-		47
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt	3,304,238	52.31	Thomas E. Dewey	2,987,647	47.3	-			47
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt	3,251,918	51.60	Wendell Willkie	3,027,478	48.04	-			47
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	3,293,222	58.85	Alf Landon	2,180,670	38.97	-			47
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	2,534,959	54.07	Herbert Hoover	1,937,963	41.33	-			47
1928	Herbert Hoover	2,193,344	49.79	Al Smith	2,089,863	47.44	-			45
1924	Calvin Coolidge	1,820,058	55.76	John W. Davis	950,796	29.13	Robert M. La Follette	474,913	14.55	45
1920	Warren G. Harding	1,871,167	64.56	James M. Cox	781,238	26.95	Parley P. Christensen	18,413	0.64	45
1916	Woodrow Wilson	759,426	44.51	Charles E. Hughes	879,238	51.53	-			45
1912	Woodrow Wilson	655,573	41.27	Theodore Roosevelt	390,093	24.56	William H. Taft	455,487	28.68	45
1908	William H. Taft	870,070	53.11	William Jennings Bryan	667,468	40.74	-			39
1904	Theodore Roosevelt	859,533	53.13	Alton B. Parker	683,981	42.28	-			39
1900	William McKinley	822,013	53.10	William Jennings Bryan	678,462	43.83	-			36
1896	William McKinley	819,838	57.58	William Jennings Bryan	551,369	38.72	-			36
1892	Grover Cleveland	654,868	48.99	Benjamin Harrison	609,350	45.58	James B. Weaver	16,429	1.23	36
1888	Benjamin Harrison^[c]	650,338	49.28	Grover Cleveland	635,965	48.19	-			36
1884	Grover Cleveland	563,154	48.25	James G. Blaine	562,005	48.15	-			36
1880	James A. Garfield	555,544	50.32	Winfield S. Hancock	534,511	48.42	James B. Weaver	12,373	1.12	35
1876	Rutherford B. Hayes^[c]	489,207	48.17	Samuel J. Tilden	521,949	51.40	-			35
1872	Ulysses S. Grant	440,738	53.23	Horace Greeley	387,282	46.77	-			35
1868	Ulysses S. Grant	419,888	49.4	Horatio Seymour	429,883	50.6	-			33
1864	Abraham Lincoln	368,735	50.5	George B. McClellan	361,986	49.5	-			33

Election of 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. 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.

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Electoral Votes
1860	Abraham Lincoln	362,646	53.7	Stephen A. Douglas	no ballots		John C. Breckinridge	no ballots		John Bell	no ballots		35

Elections from 1828 to 1856

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Other national candidates^[b]	Votes	Percent	Electoral Votes	Notes
1856	James Buchanan	195,878	32.84	John C. Frémont	276,004	46.27	Millard Fillmore	124,604	20.89	35
1852	Franklin Pierce	262,083	50.18	Winfield Scott	234,882	44.97	John P. Hale	25,329	4.85	35
1848	Zachary Taylor	218,583	47.94	Lewis Cass	114,319	25.07	Martin Van Buren	120,497	26.43	36
1844	James K. Polk	237,588	48.9	Henry Clay	232,482	47.85	-			36
1840	William Henry Harrison	226,001	51.18	Martin Van Buren	212,733	48.18	-			42
1836	Martin Van Buren	166,795	54.63	William Henry Harrison	138,548	45.37	various^[e]			42
1832	Andrew Jackson	168,497	52.1	Henry Clay	154,896	47.9	William Wirt	no ballots		42
1828	Andrew Jackson	139,412	51.45	John Quincy Adams	131,563	48.55	-			36	Electoral votes split, 20 for Jackson and 16 for Adams.

Election of 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. 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.

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Electoral Votes
1824	Andrew Jackson	no popular vote	-	John Quincy Adams	no popular vote	-	Henry Clay	no popular vote	-	William H. Crawford	no popular vote	-	36 (Electoral College split, 26 for Adams, 5 for Crawford, 4 for Clay, and 1 for Jackson)

Elections from 1788-1789 to 1820

In elections prior to 1824, New York did not conduct a popular vote. Each Elector was appointed by the state legislature.

Year	Winner (nationally)	Runner-up (nationally)	Other national candidates^[b]	Electoral Votes	Notes
1820	James Monroe	-		29	In the election of 1820, incumbent President James Monroe ran effectively unopposed, winning all 29 of New York's electoral votes, and all electoral votes nationwide except one vote in New Hampshire. To the extent that a popular vote was held, it was primarily directed to filling the office of Vice President.
1816	James Monroe	Rufus King	-	29
1812	James Madison	DeWitt Clinton	-	29
1808	James Madison	Charles C. Pinckney	-	19	Electoral vote was split 13 to 6, with 13 going to Madison and 6 going to George Clinton, who was a candidate for vice president.
1804	Thomas Jefferson	Charles C. Pinckney	-	19
1800	Thomas Jefferson	John Adams	-	12
1796	John Adams	Thomas Jefferson	-	12
1792	George Washington	-		12	Washington effectively ran unopposed.
1788-89	George Washington	-		n/a	Washington effectively ran unopposed nationally, but New York did not participate due to a deadlock in the state legislature.

Notes

^ George Washington, 1792.
^ ^a ^b ^c 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Won the electoral college while losing the popular vote
^ Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina
^ Three other candidates ran and received electoral votes nationally as part of the unsuccessful Whig strategy to defeat Martin Van Buren by running four candidates with local appeal in different regions of the country. The others were Hugh Lawson White, Daniel Webster, and Willie Person Mangum. None of these candidates appeared on the ballot in New York.