The 2016 United States presidential election in New York was held on November 8, 2016. New York voters chose 29 electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The Republican Party fielded businessman Donald Trump for President and Indiana Governor Mike Pence for Vice President of the United States. The Democratic Party fielded former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Virginia Senator Tim Kaine for President.
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The 2016 United States presidential election in New York was held on November 8, 2016. New York voters chose 29 electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The Republican Party fielded businessman Donald Trump for President and Indiana Governor Mike Pence for Vice President of the United States. The Democratic Party fielded former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Virginia Senator Tim Kaine for President. The 2016 presidential election marks the most recent cycle in which Trump would be on the presidential ballot as a legal resident of New York state. Trump became the second consecutive major party presidential nominee to lose his home state by over 20 points in recent cycles. With the introduction of computerized voting, write-in candidates were permitted. The following is a certified list of persons who made valid presidential write in filings with the State Board of Elections.ClintonTrumpBarack ObamaDemocraticDonald TrumpRepublican pre-consolidation: Pre-consideration: Post-cons Consolidation: post-cons consolidate. Clinton won 18 congressional districts. Trump improved upon recent Republican performances in rural Upstate New York. However, Donald Trump won the county vote, taking 45 counties state wide to Hillary Clinton’s 17.
Hillary Clinton won 27 congressional districts, while Trump won 20. Trump made gains in urban parts of upstate, which had been trending Democratic since the 1990s, and both urban and upstate Democrats had twice performed strongly across both upstate and rural areas in the preceding two elections. Clinton did win Upstate Clinton’s traditionally Democratic cities and traditional Democratic counties upstate. Trump did win upstate Clinton’s traditionally Democratic counties, which were upstaged by urban Democrats and traditionally Republican counties in the two preceding elections. The last poll showed Hillary Clinton leading Trump 51% to 34%, and the average of the final 3 polls statewide showed Clinton leads Trump 52% to 31%, which was accurate compared to the results. The first Presidential Debate took place at Hofstra University. Snap polls indicated that Clinton won. New York is a fusion state, which means that candidates are allowed to be on multiple lines. Those on the ballot were: Democratic, Women’s Equality and Working Families PartiesConservative and Republican partiesGreen partyIndependence and Libertarian partiesGary Johnson and Bill Weld were nominated by the Libertarian and Independence Parties using separate elector slates.
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