United States presidential election in New York, 1996

November 5, 1996



Nominee	Bill Clinton	Bob Dole	Ross Perot
Party	Democratic	Republican	Reform
Home state	Arkansas	Kansas	Texas
Running mate	Al Gore	Jack Kemp	Pat Choate
Electoral vote	33	0	0
Popular vote	3,756,177	1,933,492	503,458
Percentage	59.47%	30.61%	7.97%

County Results

Clinton—80-90%

Clinton—70-80%

Clinton—60-70%

Clinton—50-60%

Clinton—<50%

Dole—<50%

Dole—50-60%

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Bill Clinton
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The 1996 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 5, 1996 as part of the 1996 United States presidential election. Voters chose 33 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

New York, a reliable blue state that no Republican has won since 1984, was won by incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore of Tennessee, over the Republican ticket of Senator Bob Dole of Kansas and Representative Jack Kemp of New York. Clinton carried New York by a landslide 28.86% margin of victory, taking 59.47% of the vote to Dole's 30.61%, even though Republican vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp was from New York. Reform Party candidate Ross Perot finished in third with 7.97% of the popular vote.

Clinton improved dramatically on his 1992 showing in New York, when he had won the state with a 49.73% plurality. 1996 firmly entrenched New York's status in the modern era as a Democratic stronghold, rather than the swing state it had been in the 1970s and 1980s. Many upstate counties which had usually voted Republican were won by the Democratic ticket. Clinton also managed to sweep traditionally Republican suburbs around New York City, being the first Democrat since 1964 to win Republican bastions like Staten Island and Suffolk County. In Westchester County, Clinton increased his lead from an 8.5% win in 1992 to a 21-point sweep in 1996. Many of these gains would be preserved in future elections; since 1996, no Democratic presidential candidate has gotten less than 58% of the vote in New York State.

Results 1
Results Breakdown 2
- By county 2.1
See also 3

Results

United States presidential election in New York, 1996^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Bill Clinton	3,649,630	57.78%
	Liberal	Bill Clinton	106,547	1.69%
	Total	Bill Clinton (incumbent)	3,756,177	59.47%	33
	Republican	Bob Dole	1,738,707	27.53%
	Conservative	Bob Dole	183,392	2.90%
	Freedom	Bob Dole	11,393	0.18%
	Total	Bob Dole	1,933,492	30.61%	0
	Reform	Ross Perot	503,458	7.97%	0
	Green	Ralph Nader	75,956	1.20%	0
	Right to Life (a)	Howard Phillips	23,580	0.37%	0
	Libertarian	Harry Browne	12,220	0.19%	0
	Natural Law	John Hagelin	5,011	0.08%	0
	Workers World	Monica Moorehead	3,473	0.05%	0
	Socialist Workers	James Harris	2,762	0.04%	0
Totals			6,316,129	100.0%	33
Voter turnout			43%		—

(a) Howard Phillips was then nominee of the Constitution Party nationally.

Results Breakdown

By county

County	Clinton		Dole		Perot		Other
Albany	61.0%	85,993	28.2%	39,785	8.5%	11,957	2.3%	3,256
Allegany	37.4%	6,621	45.8%	8,107	15.4%	2,730	1.4%	245
Bronx	85.8%	248,276	10.5%	30,435	2.5%	7,186	1.2%	3,453
Broome	51.2%	44,407	36.1%	31,327	10.5%	9,114	2.3%	1,966
Cattaraugus	41.2%	13,029	41.0%	12,971	16.3%	5,151	1.6%	492
Cayuga	49.8%	15,879	34.8%	11,093	13.9%	4,420	1.6%	502
Chautauqua	47.7%	26,831	37.8%	21,261	13.3%	7,484	1.3%	714
Chemung	47.4%	16,977	39.9%	14,287	11.1%	3,967	1.6%	582
Chenango	45.6%	8,797	38.0%	7,319	14.6%	2,822	1.8%	341
Clinton	52.9%	15,386	33.6%	9,759	12.0%	3,488	1.5%	427
Columbia	47.1%	12,910	37.7%	10,324	12.6%	3,466	2.6%	703
Cortland	46.9%	9,130	39.1%	7,606	12.3%	2,398	1.6%	315
Delaware	45.0%	8,724	39.6%	7,684	13.4%	2,601	2.0%	385
Dutchess	45.6%	47,339	40.4%	41,929	11.8%	12,294	2.2%	2,259
Erie	54.7%	224,554	32.3%	132,343	11.1%	45,679	1.9%	7,658
Essex	46.5%	7,893	37.6%	6,379	13.9%	2,363	2.1%	351
Franklin	51.8%	8,494	30.9%	5,072	15.2%	2,499	2.0%	329
Fulton	46.3%	9,779	37.3%	7,881	15.2%	3,214	1.2%	256
Genesee	41.6%	10,074	44.6%	10,821	12.4%	2,996	1.4%	347
Greene	41.0%	8,251	43.3%	8,712	13.9%	2,790	1.8%	371
Hamilton	34.0%	1,228	51.0%	1,841	13.6%	492	1.4%	51
Herkimer	44.7%	11,910	37.9%	10,085	15.9%	4,235	1.5%	396
Jefferson	49.2%	16,783	36.2%	12,362	13.4%	4,561	1.2%	421
Kings	80.1%	432,232	15.1%	81,406	2.8%	15,031	2.1%	11,164
Lewis	43.2%	4,402	38.9%	3,965	16.4%	1,669	1.5%	149
Livingston	43.2%	10,868	43.7%	10,981	11.5%	2,889	1.6%	400
Madison	43.8%	11,832	42.0%	11,324	12.5%	3,379	1.7%	453
Monroe	53.2%	164,858	37.3%	115,694	7.7%	23,936	1.8%	5,506
Montgomery	49.5%	10,485	33.9%	7,172	15.4%	3,253	1.2%	256
Nassau	55.7%	303,587	36.1%	196,820	6.6%	36,122	1.5%	8,135
New York	80.0%	394,131	13.8%	67,839	2.3%	11,144	4.0%	19,785
Niagara	49.4%	44,203	35.1%	31,438	14.0%	12,564	1.4%	1,239
Oneida	46.8%	44,399	40.0%	37,996	11.9%	11,296	1.3%	1,238
Onondaga	51.4%	100,190	37.8%	73,771	9.0%	17,602	1.7%	3,376
Ontario	46.2%	19,156	41.6%	17,237	10.6%	4,391	1.6%	655
Orange	48.0%	54,995	40.1%	45,956	10.3%	11,778	1.6%	1,809
Orleans	40.8%	6,233	45.0%	6,865	13.0%	1,986	1.2%	184
Oswego	44.8%	20,440	37.6%	17,159	16.4%	7,499	1.3%	575
Otsego	47.5%	11,470	36.4%	8,774	13.3%	3,217	2.8%	665
Putnam	42.1%	16,173	45.4%	17,452	10.5%	4,032	2.0%	775
Queens	72.9%	372,925	21.1%	107,650	4.4%	22,288	1.6%	8,433
Rensselaer	50.7%	34,273	34.7%	23,482	12.4%	8,405	2.2%	1,465
Richmond	50.5%	64,684	40.8%	52,207	7.0%	8,968	1.7%	2,148
Rockland	56.2%	63,127	36.0%	40,395	6.1%	6,798	1.7%	1,921
St. Lawrence	56.7%	21,798	28.1%	10,827	13.8%	5,309	1.4%	543
Saratoga	46.5%	39,832	40.1%	34,337	11.8%	10,141	1.6%	1,355
Schenectady	53.1%	35,404	33.1%	22,106	11.8%	7,865	2.0%	1,334
Schoharie	44.5%	5,902	40.4%	5,353	13.5%	1,796	1.6%	210
Schuyler	43.3%	3,303	41.0%	3,134	13.6%	1,037	2.1%	161
Seneca	48.9%	6,825	35.9%	5,004	13.5%	1,889	1.7%	237
Steuben	37.9%	14,481	46.4%	17,710	14.4%	5,496	1.3%	484
Suffolk	51.8%	261,828	36.1%	182,510	10.3%	52,209	1.7%	8,666
Sullivan	53.3%	15,052	33.0%	9,321	12.2%	3,453	1.5%	418
Tioga	41.2%	8,769	44.2%	9,416	12.8%	2,721	1.8%	376
Tompkins	56.0%	20,772	31.1%	11,532	7.1%	2,623	5.9%	2,197
Ulster	48.5%	35,852	35.5%	26,212	12.5%	9,246	3.4%	2,541
Warren	43.3%	11,603	41.6%	11,152	13.5%	3,623	1.5%	413
Washington	42.5%	9,572	39.7%	8,954	16.2%	3,648	1.6%	370
Wayne	42.1%	15,145	44.0%	15,837	12.8%	4,619	1.1%	396
Westchester	56.9%	196,310	35.9%	123,719	5.2%	18,028	2.0%	6,806
Wyoming	36.2%	5,735	47.3%	7,477	15.2%	2,411	1.3%	198
Yates	43.6%	4,066	42.1%	3,925	12.8%	1,190	1.6%	146

^ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 1996 - New York". Retrieved January 7, 2013.

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