The presidential election results are finally certified in New York City. And while it’s no surprise that Joe Biden dominated the vote in this Democratic bastion, the math also shows that Donald Trump grew his support here.
What You Need To Know
Newly certified election results show numbers up for Trump and down for Democrats
Votes for Trump grew most steeply in the Bronx, thanks to voter-registration efforts
Local GOP leaders say Trump gained with demographics including Jewish and Latino New Yorkers
This year, 22.6% of city ballots went to Trump on the Republican and Conservative Party lines.
In 2016, 17.9% did.
This year, 75.7% went to Biden on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines.
In 2016, 78.4% went to Hillary Clinton on the Democratic, Working Families, and Women’s Equality Party lines.
Enthusiasm for Clinton four years ago was higher than it was for Biden this year, said City Councilman Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island), who is co-chair of the Trump campaign in New York.
“Donald Trump picked up more voters in different constituencies than we would expect. It wasn't just the embassy that moved to Jerusalem, I think a lot of Jews were moved from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party under Donald Trump," said Borelli, also spokesman for the state GOP. "Additionally, you see a lot of labor, you see a lot of daylight now between the members of labor organizations and where their leadership seems to go in terms of electoral politics.”
A NY1 analysis shows that while Trump support stayed steady on Staten Island, which he won this year with 56.6%, it grew by a handful of points in each of the other four boroughs.
The increase was steepest in the Bronx — 15.7% this year versus 9.4% in 2016.
Bronx Republican Party Chairman Michael Rendino said the party reached out beyond its traditional strongholds and found that working-class parts of the borough rejected what he said was the Democrats' swing left.
“We’ve increased our voter registration 18% in four years, which is phenomenal and that’s just by voting to the people and speaking to them," Rendino said, adding of which demographics saw gains for Trump in the Bronx: “Latino and Bengali communities."
The city did see a hike in voter participation, reflective of 2020’s record turnout nationwide.
About 307,000 more New Yorkers cast ballots in last month’s general election than in 2016. That’s nearly 3,067,000 people in total.
About 2.3 million people voted for Biden and Kamala Harris versus about 690,000 for Trump and Mike Pence.
About 660,000 absentee ballots were tallied and more than 1.1 million New Yorkers voted early.
Additionally, the newly official results show that while third-party candidate Evan McMullin had the most write-in votes for president in 2016, this year it was Kanye West with 927 votes.
Poster Comment:
The city's population in 2010 was 44% white (33.3% non-Hispanic white), 25.5% Black or African American (23% non-Hispanic black), 0.7% Native American or Alaska Native, and 12.7% Asian.[259] Hispanics or Latinos of any race represented 28.6% of the population,[259] while Asians constituted the fastest-growing segment of the city's population between 2000 and 2010;
Approximately 37% of the city's population is foreign born, and more than half of all children are born to mothers who are immigrants as of 2013.
The ten largest sources of foreign-born individuals in the city as of 2011 were the Dominican Republic, China, Mexico, Guyana, Jamaica, Ecuador, Haiti, India, Russia, and Trinidad and Tobago,[265] while the Bangladeshi-born immigrant population has become one of the fastest growing in the city, counting over 74,000 by 2011.
The New York metropolitan area is home to a prominent self-identifying gay and bisexual community estimated at nearly 570,000 individuals, the largest in the United States and one of the world's largest.
Subtract out the Gays and the Jews and there are not many whites who are straight in NYC.
Bronx which has almost 0% whites is where his vote grew the most.
But the point is that Trump's vote went up almost 5% in NYC despite a continuing influx over the last ten years from Asia, Latin America, Africa and Jews from Russia and Israel.