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The 1972 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 7, 1972. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1972 United States presidential election. New York voters chose forty one electors to the Electoral College, which voted for President and Vice President.
South Dakota. Nixon ran with Vice President, and former Maryland Governor, Spiro Agnew for Vice President, and McGovern ran with United States Ambassador Sargent Shriver for Vice President. In the midst of a nationwide Republican landslide, Nixon took 58.54% of the vote in New York State to McGovern's 41.21%, a margin of 17.34%. New York weighed in for this election as more Democratic than the national average by about 6%.
Nearly all Manhattan and also winning the Bronx and Brooklyn, however Nixon was able to put in a relatively strong performance citywide with victories in Queens and Staten Island. 1972 remains the last election in which a Republican presidential nominee has won the borough of Queens, a heavily populated county historically key to Republican competition in New York. This was also the last election in which a Republican presidential nominee has won the upstate counties of Erie County, where the city of Buffalo is located, and Albany County, where the state capital of Albany is located. All 3 of these counties have become solidly Democratic in the 40 years that have followed.
The presidential election of 1972 was an extremely partisan election for New York, with 99.75% of the electorate voting either Republican or Democrat.[1] Having delivered as President a period of relative economic stability and growth, and showing promising movements towards peace in Vietnam, Nixon was able to gain reelection with electors from every State in the U.S., except Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. The Vietnam War continued to be a strong issue during this election, with both candidates declaring desire to end the conflict.[2]
This was the first election since 1808 in which New York did not have the largest number of electors in the Electoral College, having fallen to 41 electors versus California's 45 as a result of the 1970 census.
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